Tag: Ava DuVernay
Korey Wise kicks off criminal justice reform tour in Birmingham
By Erica Wright
The Birmingham Times
“I wasn’t arrested, I was kidnapped,” Korey Wise told a packed audience last week at Historic Sixteenth Street Baptist Church...
Korey Wise of ‘Exonerated 5’ to speak at 16th Street Baptist...
For The Birmingham Times
Korey Wise is a survivor. Seventeen years after serving an unlawful prison sentence and being illegally coerced into confessing to a...
Barbie makes doll of hijab-wearing Olympian Ibtihaj Muhammad
Times Staff Report
The maker of Barbie has announced it will sell a doll modeled after Ibtihaj Muhammad, an American fencer who competed in last...
Emmy-winning actor Robert Guillaume, of ‘Soap’ and ‘Benson’ dies at 89
By HILLEL ITALIE
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Robert Guillaume, who rose from squalid beginnings in St. Louis slums to become a star in stage...
