Tag: Leadership

By Shauna Stuart | sstuart@al.com Alabama poet laureate Ashley Jones has been awarded $50,000 to support her public poetry projects. The Academy of American Poets has...

By Ryan Michaels The Birmingham Times On Tuesday, more than a dozen Birmingham high school students met with local leaders at the first of a two-day...

alaquest.net Invite your teen to apply for Anytown Alabama where they will meet young people from the entire metro area and learn together about different religions, cultures...

By Candace Higginbotham J. Mason Davis Jr. didn’t have to ask to join civic groups around Birmingham, Alabama. That’s because they usually asked him first. “And...

By Barnett Wright The Birmingham Times On a bright winter morning in the Magic City, a man is seen approaching the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (BCRI)....

By Barnett Wright The Birmingham Times Visiting his grandfather, Bishop Calvin Woods, in Birmingham’s Central Park neighborhood, Mike McClure Jr. and his other younger family members...

birminghamal.gov Mayor Randall L. Woodfin has reappointed Patrick D. Smith as Chief of the Birmingham Police Department. “When I appointed Chief Smith in 2018, I was...

www.leadershipbirmingham.org Greater Birmingham leaders across diverse sectors of the community will spend the next 10 months together as Leadership Birmingham’s Class of 2022. The 39-year-old...

By Ryan Michaels The Birmingham Times On Monday, the Birmingham Jefferson County Transit Authority’s Board of Directors named Charlotte Shaw as the agency’s next chief executive...

By Solomon Crenshaw Jr. Alabama Newscenter Alvin Briggs was 6 years old when he told his mother he wanted to play peewee football. She responded by...