On Sept. 15, 1963, 8-year-old Condoleezza Rice was in her father's church in Birmingham, Ala., when a loud thud echoed from the explosion that killed four young girls ...

A look at one of America's most outstanding women, from her remarkable childhood in Birmingham, Alabama, in the 1950s through her rise to the highest echelons of power in the U.S. government.

How does an African-American woman from Birmingham, Ala., with a family background in church and the arts become an expert on the Soviet Union? Karsten Kurze, BAD HONNEF, GERMANY In order to know who ...

This is the story of Condoleezza Rice-- her early years growing up in the hostile environment of Birmingham, Alabama; her rise in the ranks at Stanford University to become the university's ...