Tag: Montgomery
Some of MLK’s Most Memorable Visits to Birmingham, AL
By Ryan Michaels | The Birmingham Times
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Birmingham have been intertwined ever since the Civil Rights leader helped dismantle...
Helena Duncan Named First Black CEO of the Business Council of...
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Business Council of Alabama (BCA) announced this week that Helena Duncan has been selected as the organization’s next President and...
Former NBA Star to Invest $600M in an Alabama Beverage Hub
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MONTGOMERY – Governor Kay Ivey on Tuesday announced that Manna Capital Partners plans to invest nearly $600 million to construct an advanced beverage production and...
Alabama Attorney Fred Gray Will Receive Presidential Award of Freedom From...
By Chuck Chandler
Alabama NewsCenter Staff
President Joe Biden on July 7 will award Alabama’s Fred Gray Sr. the Presidential Award of Freedom, which is the nation’s highest...
Birmingham Now Alabama’s 3rd Largest City
By Ramsey Archibald | rarchibald@al.com
The Magic City keeps losing people.
Birmingham city lost more than 1 percent of its population between July 1, 2020 and July...
A Listing of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Nearly Two Dozen...
By Ryan Michaels
The Birmingham Times
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Birmingham have been intertwined ever since the Civil Rights leader helped dismantle segregation in...
Claudette Colvin wins expungement of Alabama civil rights arrest
By Mark Kelly
It took most of a lifetime, but now it’s official. Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin is, in her own words, “no longer a juvenile...
U.S. Supreme Court Asked to Flip Decision and Put Bill Cosby...
By Lauren Victoria Burke
NNPA Newswire Contributor
Kevin Steele, the prosecutor who put comedian Bill Cosby, 84, in jail in 2018, has filed an appeal to...
Bill Cosby freed from prison, his sexual assault conviction overturned
By MARYCLAIRE DALE, Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Pennsylvania’s highest court threw out Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction and released him from prison Wednesday in...
Alabama unveils statue of civil rights icon Rosa Parks
By Dankin Andone
CNN
(CNN)-Rosa Parks was honored with a new statue in downtown Montgomery, Alabama, on Sunday, 64 years to the day she was arrested for...