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By Javacia Harris Bowser For The Birmingham Times When you think of the Birmingham Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, certain names immediately come to mind:...

By Solomon Crenshaw Jr. For the Birmingham Times For John Archibald, it began with silence. What he describes as “white silence.” The Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist for Alabama...

By Erica Wright The Birmingham Times Welcome to Third Thursdays! This series — published in The Birmingham Times on the third Thursday of every month —...

By Javacia Bowser Babypalooza Eunice Elliott recently left her role as a news anchor at Birmingham’s WVTM 13 to start a new chapter — literally. In March...

By Je’Don Holloway Talley For the Birmingham Times When Nia Mya Reese was given a first-grade class assignment to write about a topic for which she...

By Javacia Harris Bowser For The Birmingham Times Birmingham author Randi Pink wrote her latest novel Girls Like Us in 31 days. No, she wasn’t trying the...

By Erica Wright The Birmingham Times Dina Avery comes from a bloodline of steadfast people, including her father, Charles Avery Jr., who was one of the...

By LaMont Jones Diverse Education Black youth, especially males, have been disproportionately tied to the U.S. justice system far longer than today’s headlines suggest. Dr. Carl Suddler,...

By Hillel Italie Associated Press  NEW YORK (AP) — Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, a pioneer and reigning giant of modern literature whose imaginative power in “Beloved,”...

By Erica Wright The Birmingham Times To this day, Calvin Macon regrets the condition he was in when his parents last saw him. “I was struggling,” he...