Tag: education
Alabama HBCUs Ready to Welcome Birmingham-Southern College Students
By Sym Posey | The Birmingham Times
Students from Birmingham-Southern College (BSC), which is closing May 31, looking for a school to attend in the...
What Closing of Birmingham-Southern College Means to Residents in Surrounding Communities
By Barnett Wright | The Birmingham Times
If anyone knows the importance of Birmingham-Southern College (BSC), it would be Joanice Thompson, President of Bush Hills...
School Attendance Incentives for Birmingham Students Showing Signs of Success
By Keisa Sharpe-Jefferson | For The Birmingham Times
Birmingham’s Every Day Counts program, an effort to combat truancy, is gaining momentum.
The initiative incentivizes Housing Authority...
New Initiative Supports Black Men in Pursuit of Teaching Careers
By Carla Davis l Alabama NewsCenter
When Albert Ball was a student, what he “really needed” both inside and outside the classroom was Black male...
How Chandra Scott is Expanding the Possible
By Keisa Sharpe-Jefferson
The Birmingham Times
The nation’s first ever Historically Black Community Colleges (HBCC’s) conference will be held February 8-9 in Mobile and hosted by Alabama Possible, a...
Atlanta’s Spelman College Just Got the Largest-Ever Single Donation to an...
BY JEFF AMY
ATLANTA (AP) — A billionaire couple is giving $100 million to Atlanta’s Spelman College, which the women’s school says is the largest-ever single...
Mayor Woodfin To All ‘Lazy’ Birmingham School Teachers: ‘Resign … We...
By Keisa Sharpe-Jefferson
The Birmingham Times
Saying a “C” grade was unacceptable for Birmingham City Schools, Mayor Randall Woodfin on Tuesday called on all city schoolteachers...
UAB’s Dr. Tondra Loder-Jackson and Birmingham’s Schoolhouse Activists
By Sym Posey
The Birmingham Times
As a military child, Tondra Loder-Jackson lived in a number of locales including Hawaii; Texas; and Maryland, but no place...
Birmingham’s Imani Perry, MacArthur Fellow, on Her Most Important Lesson
By Tamika Moore
Imani Perry is an interdisciplinary scholar and professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. She was honored with a 2023 MacArthur Fellowship,...
Beverly Clark Introduces Youth to the Lost Art of Crochet
By Sym Posey
The Birmingham Times
Beverly Clark remembers “minding her own business,” crocheting a hat-and-scarf set while helping her daughter at a pop-up event, and...
