Tag: black women
Madelaine Bowie: Building homes and dreams in Ensley
By Ameera Steward
The Birmingham Times
Becoming a realtor wasn’t a surprise for Madelaine Bowie. She always had an entrepreneurial mindset, she liked working with people,...
Sen. Kamala Harris and Rep. Yvette Clarke reintroduce legislation to honor...
BlackPressUSA
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Friday, U.S. Senator Kamala D. Harris (D-CA) reintroduced a bill directing Congress to commission a statue of former U.S. Representative...
CakEffect opening new location in Hoover on March 9
Special to The Times
A tasty treat will be coming to The Village at Brocks Gap in Hoover.
CakEffect, “The Little Shop with a Grand Effect,”...
Ntozake Shange’s famed “For Colored Girls” at the Encore March 1-3
By Erica Wright
The Birmingham Times
There is no better time than now for a production of Ntozake Shange’s famed choreopoem and award-winning stage play, “For...
Black woman replacing Alabama editor who endorsed KKK
The Associated Press
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A white Alabama newspaper editor who advocated for a revival of the Ku Klux Klan is turning over...
UAB student selected for prestigious national fellowship
By Yvonne Taunton
UAB News
After a week of interviews in legislative offices on Capitol Hill, Sandra Cutts, a University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Engineering doctoral candidate,...
First Black Woman Appointed To Serve As Supreme Court Chief Justice...
By Kimberly Richards
Black Voices
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) on Tuesday appointed Cheri Beasley to be the chief justice of the state’s Supreme Court....
Power of the Pink Rally draws elected black women to downtown...
By Ariel Worthy
The Birmingham Times
Dozens of elected women and supporters on Friday marched in downtown Birmingham from The Sheraton Hotel to Uptown for the...
‘Power of the sister’ vote made the difference for Doug Jones
By Barnett Wright
The Birmingham Times
Before the Democratic operatives arrived … before the heavy television, newspaper and radio political advertisements hit the airwaves … a...
Black Women: Voting in Large Numbers Yet Underrepresented
By Susan Buchanan
Louisiana Weekly/New America Media
America’s black women vote at high rates and are politically active, but remain underrepresented in elected positions relative to...
