Tag: Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
These are the Community Members who helped grow Birmingham Civil Rights...
Members of the Task Force named by Mayor Richard Arrington in 1986 to plan for establishment of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute:
Odessa Woolfolk (Chairperson)
Frank...
FBI, Civil Rights Institute to host conference in Birmingham on hate...
BCRI.org
Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will be the keynote speaker for the opening session of the 2017 annual Conference on Civil Rights and Law...
Rabbi Jonathan Miller’s special bond with the Birmingham community
Times Staff Report
Rabbi Jonathan Miller thought he was only going to stay in Birmingham about five years when he moved to the city to...
Legendary activist Harry Belafonte to receive BCRI’s top award
Special to the Times
In honor of its 25th Anniversary, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (BCRI) has announced three recipients of the 2017 Fred L....
Area Students Complete BCRI program detailing city’s role in US history
By Erica Wright
The Birmingham Times
Twenty students from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute’s Legacy Youth Leadership Program (LYLP) graduated Sunday as docents and interns. The...
¡NUEVOlution!: Latinos in the New South exhibition opens at BCRI
Special to The Times
On Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017 the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (BCRI) officially opened a major travelling exhibition, ¡NUEVOlution! Latinos in the...
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute among 39 sites...
By Monique Jones
The Birmingham Times
The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church are among the 39 historical and preservation projects in...
Birmingham’s civil rights district could get federal designation in 2017
By Erin Harney
Alabama NewsCenter
As the National Park Service begins its second century in 2017, there’s hope in Birmingham that the city’s important role in...
Kwanzaa Workshop at BCRI celebrates culture, tradition
By Solomon Crenshaw Jr.
For The Birmingham Times
Lynndale Simba Smith knows how to captivate an audience.
Smith is the founder, instructor and performer for American African...
Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton receives BCRI’s Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award
Story by Solomon Crenshaw Jr.
Photos by Stephonia Taylor McLinn and Solomon Crenshaw Jr
The Birmingham Times
The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (BCRI) on Saturday presented Congresswoman Eleanor...