Tag: Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
23 People, Places and Things to Watch in Birmingham in 2023
The Birmingham Times Staff
Birmingham has a number of tourist attractions, institutions, stories and people to share with the world. Some are annual events, some longstanding...
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Celebrates 30 Years as a Community Jewel
By Ryan Michaels
The Birmingham Times
DeJuana Thompson, president and CEO of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (BCRI), doesn’t remember a year of her youth in...
Widow of Medgar Evers to Receive BCRI’s 2022 Shuttlesworth Award
By Ryan Michaels
The Birmingham Times
The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (BCRI) has selected Myrlie Evers-Williams, widow of Medgar Evers, as this year’s recipient of the...
BCRI Responds to Recent Acts of Racially Motivated Terrorism
bcri.org
(The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute issued this statement on the massacre of innocent shoppers in Buffalo, NY)
On May 14 a mass shooting occurred...
DeJuana Thompson Named Permanent President and CEO of BCRI
The Birmingham Times
DeJuana Thompson will serve as president and CEO of Birmingham Civil Rights Institute without the "interim" designation, the board announced on Wednesday.
Thompson,...
The Drive and Determination of Isaac Cooper, BCRI Board Chair
By Mark Kelly
Alabama NewsCenter
Talk to people who know and work with Isaac Cooper, and some common themes emerge. Those themes – a commitment to...
Meet Odessa Woolfolk: Birmingham’s Living Legend
By Javacia Harris Bowser
For The Birmingham Times
It’s a sunny fall afternoon, and Odessa Woolfolk has made her way to the Titusville branch of the...
How An Educator Turned Vision of The BCRI Into Reality
By Javacia Harris Bowser
For The Birmingham Times
When former Birmingham Mayor Richard Arrington Jr. assembled a 21-member task force to spearhead the creation of the...
Students, Friends, Colleagues on ‘The Gift’ That is Odessa Woolfolk
By Javacia Harris Bowser
For The Birmingham Times
Gloria A. Dennard was a student in Odessa Woolfolk’s 10th-grade history class at Birmingham’s Samuel Ullman High School,...
COVID-19 And Birmingham: One Year Later
By Erica Wright and Ameera Steward
The Birmingham Times
(First of two parts)
One year ago this month, the world changed. March 2021 observes an anniversary that...
