Tag: history
Black Women in the South Have Been Bracing for Roe’s Fall...
Char Adams and Bracey Harris
NBC News
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Tight restrictions on abortion have already placed the procedure out of reach for...
Historic Church in Selma on Endangered Places List
By Jay Reeves
Associated Press
Like religious congregants all over, the people of historic Brown Chapel AME Church turned off the lights and locked the doors at the...
Birmingham Mayor Woodfin, Vice President Harris to headline Tennessee St. commencement
TSU News Service
Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin will address Tennessee State University graduate students at an indoor ceremony on Friday, May 6 in the Gentry...
How Bessemer’s Hidden Gem — Camp Fletcher — Changes Lives of...
By Haley Wilson
The Birmingham Times
Enter Camp Fletcher, a 300-acre woodland preserve in Bessemer, and find a hidden gem—a place where more than 800 kids...
Meet Pauline Braye Fletcher, Camp Founder, First Black Registered Nurse in...
By Haley Wilson
The Birmingham Times
Camp Fletcher was founded in 1926 by Pauline Braye Fletcher, the first African American registered nurse in Alabama, as an...
Majors celebrate 75th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s debut
By Greg Beacham
AP Sports Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Baseball celebrated the 75th anniversary of the day Jackie Robinson broke the major league color barrier...
Ketanji Brown Jackson Breaks Through A ‘Concrete Ceiling’
By Nyah Marshall
Howard University News Service
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is officially confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court with a historical vote that makes her...
Senate confirms Ketanji Brown Jackson to be first Black woman to...
By Clare Foran, Ted Barrett and Ali Zaslav
CNN
The Senate confirmed President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson on Thursday in a historic vote that paves the...
Biden signs bill making lynching a federal hate crime
By Darlene Superville
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presidents typically say a few words before they turn legislation into law. But Joe Biden flipped the script...
Ariana DeBose Makes History as First Openly Queer Actor of Color...
By Tre'Vaughn Howard
CBS News
Actress Ariana DeBose made history Sunday as the first Afro Latina and openly queer actor of color to take home an...
