It was one of many Civil War battles waged in water. Mobile’s Raphael Semmes captained the Confederate sea raider CSS Alabama that roamed the world’s shipping lanes. It sank on June 19 ...

Clyde Odom Mobile, Alabama, before the war ... during the war years would continue to reverberate during the post-war civil rights era, the rise of the “New South” and the emergence of ...

History enthusiasts will be coming to Alabama to visit historic sites ... a cemetery adjacent to the grounds of the hotel. The Mobile Civil War Trail that winds around the Grand Hotel provides ...

A 16-year-old teenager had his hands raised when he was fatally shot by police during an unauthorized "no-knock" drug raid in Mobile, Alabama, last year, according to a civil rights lawsuit filed ...

Pettway is also a development director for Legal Services Alabama, an organization that provides free civil legal advocacy for low-income residents. The organization’s Selma office was damaged ...