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By Je’Don Holloway Talley For The Birmingham Times Delving into the lives of fictional characters painted across the pages of a good book is leisure for...

By Haley Wilson The Birmingham Times Two years ago, the world changed—and Roderick Royal, pastor of New Zion Cumberland Presbyterian Church in the Smithfield community, changed...

By Haley Wilson The Birmingham Times In 2020, while the world was grappling with a global pandemic and civil unrest, award-winning freelance journalist, Javacia Harris Bowser...

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — bell hooks, the groundbreaking author, educator and activist whose explorations of how race, gender, economics and politics were intertwined...

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...