Tag: African-American
Helena Duncan Named First Black CEO of the Business Council of...
www.bcatoday.org
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Business Council of Alabama (BCA) announced this week that Helena Duncan has been selected as the organization’s next President and...
Why Black Christians are Less Likely to Get Their Preferred End-of-Life...
By Anna Jones
UAB News
Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham published a paper in the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities demonstrating the importance of respecting the...
Noted Lawyer to Speak in Birmingham on Sunday about ‘Jim Crow’s...
By Ryan Michaels
The Birmingham Times
Margaret Burnham, co-founder of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, will be at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church on...
Alabama Activists Press Voting Rights in U.S. Supreme Court Showdown
By Andrew Chung
(Reuters) - When Evan Milligan, a voting rights activist and organizer, scans his hometown of Montgomery, the capital of the state of...
Cynthia Warrick, 1st female president at Alabama’s Stillman College, to retire
By The Associated Press
Stillman College’s first female president, Cynthia Warrick, has announced plans to retire after leading the Tuscaloosa, Alabama-based historically Black college for...
Birmingham Honors ‘Four Little Girls’, Past Civic Leaders During Church Bombing...
By Ryan Michaels
The Birmingham Times
Birmingham on Thursday commemorated the 59th year since the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church on Sept. 15, 1963...
Lisa McNair Publishes “Dear Denise” to Her Sister, One of Church...
The Birmingham Times
Lisa McNair, whose sister was one of four little girls killed on Sept. 15, 1963 in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, has...
Emory Announces First African American Studies Ph.D. Program in Southeast
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent
@StacyBrownMedia
Emory University in Atlanta has announced the first African American Studies Ph.D. Program in the Southeast...
Record Number of Juneteenth Celebrations Planned Across Birmingham Metro Area
The Birmingham Times/AL.com
Juneteenth is a holiday that seems to get a little more joyous across Alabama every year, and judging from the ever-increasing number...
Larry Silver’s Art of Communication and Conversation
By Ryan Michaels
The Birmingham Times
Larry Silver was first pulled into art by a drawing his mother, Betty, had done that hung in the living...
