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Author Deborah Miller-Harris Among Historic Titusville Notables Making a Difference
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...
How Roderick Royal’s Letters of Encouragement Became a Booklet to Inspire
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...
Javacia Harris Bowser Inspires In Newly Released Book of Essays
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...
bell hooks, Groundbreaking Feminist Thinker, Dies at 69
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — bell hooks, the groundbreaking author, educator and activist whose explorations of how race, gender, economics and politics were intertwined...
Author T.K. Thorne tells Story of Birmingham’s Unsung Civil Rights Allies
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:...
One-on-one with Pulitzer winner John Archibald whose debut memoir comes out...
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...
Myra Armstead: Helping Others Through Her Divine Purpose
By Erica Wright
The Birmingham Times
Welcome to Third Thursdays! This series — published in The Birmingham Times on the third Thursday of every month —...
News Anchor Eunice Elliott Leaves TV, Begins New Chapter
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...
Nia Mya Reese: Portrait of an 11-year-old As Author
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...
Randi Pink’s 31 days of ‘Rage Writing’ produced latest novel, ‘Girls...
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...
