A mile of Alabama country road, and a history of racism, separate the two schools. At the stop sign between them, even the road’s name changes. Threadgill Road, christened for a civil rights hero, ...

A young Alabama mother and her toddler son were killed in a crash in Wilcox County. The wreck happened about 5 p.m. Sunday on Wilcox 1, about five miles south of Pine Hill. The fatality victims have ...

This story is part of a partnership between the Montgomery Advertiser and the Living Democracy program at Auburn University. Now in its 13th year, the program disperses students across rural Alabama ...

After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled state-sanctioned school segregation unconstitutional in the 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education, white parents and community leaders opened hundreds of private ...

Local school board members from west-central Alabama were among 289 education leaders statewide recognized for their ...