Birmingham's blood is on the hands of Alabama Republicans and a silent Trump

It wasn't a typical Sunday morning. It couldn't have been. Not in Birmingham. Not in or around the city that's been my home now for more than a decade.

Not like one Birmingham has seen in decades.

Almost 65 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, during an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press" said: "One of the shameful tragedies is that 11 o'clock on Sunday morning is one of the most segregated hours, if not the most segregated hour in Christian America."

That has changed little, alas, in more than six decades. Though on this past Sunday morning, Birmingham woke up hurting. Woke up hurting, sick, a...