Every city is full of history and Birmingham is no exception. The City has come a long way since the 1960s, when the civil rights struggles erupted in bombings, riots, and arrests that drew international attention to this city in north-central Alabama. Located at 520 16th Street North is the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. This gallery tells the story of Birmingham's tragic and triumphant contributions to the civil rights movement during the 1950s and '60s. This amazing museum offers multimedia presentations, photographs and other artifacts that document the African-American struggle for racial equality. This history can be related to other struggles for human rights worldwide.

Researchers using brain scans discovered that Chinese medicine and acupuncture altered blood circulation within the brain, increasing the blood flow to the thalamus, the area of the brain that relays pain and other sensory messages. In nineteen ninety seven, an advisory panel for the National Institutes of Health evaluated hundreds of Chinese medicine and acupuncture studies and concluded that the therapy is an effective treatment for postoperative and dental pain, nausea induced by chemotherapy and morning sickness in pregnancy, and for use as anesthesia during surgery. Researchers then added electrical stimulation to the treatment by running an electrical current through the acupuncture needles. While high frequencies of stimulation had no effect, low frequencies lowered elevated blood pressure rates by forty percent to fifty percent.