The Interview: From ‘Nights on Broadway’ to ‘1963’ – Candi Staton recalls 16th St. Baptist bombing
ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, speaks with the Grammy-nominated singer about her memories of 1963 bombing of a Birmingham, Alabama, church, what it was like being a child singer in a Gospel trio, and why she returned to Gospel music later in life…
Lifestory: Alabama sidesteps compensation for survivor of ’63 KKK blast
JAY REEVES, of Associated Press, speaks with Sarah Collins Rudolph, a survivor of a 1963 church bombing which killed her sister and three other Black girls, about her ongoing fight for compensation for her injuries…
Survivor of 1963 US church bombing seeks apology, restitution
AP More than a dozen sticks of dynamite planted by Ku Klux Klansmen exploded at a Birmingham church in 1963, killing four Black girls. The “fifth little girl”, Sarah Collins Rudolph, survived but still has shards of glass in her body from the blast that took her sister, her right eye and her dreams of […]