Tag: national
39-year-old Black Businessman Awarded a $13.4 Billion Defense Contract
www.blackbusiness.com
Meet Issac Barnes, the young founder and President of Eminent Future, whose Black-owned tech firm has been awarded a $13.4 billion dollar defense contract with...
How To Do Business with City of Birmingham and Jefferson County...
By Sharron Swain
bhamnow.com
During The World Games 2022 Birmingham, many streets around the downtown Jefferson County Courthouse and Birmingham City Hall will be closed to through traffic....
Legendary Alabama Sportswriter Rubin Grant Honored With 49 Other Icons
Solomon Crenshaw Jr.
For The Birmingham Times
Rubin Grant vividly remembers the advice he received from his city editor during his news writing internship at Montgomery’s...
Black History Month: What is it and Why We Need It?
By Alem Tedeneke
This article was originally published in February 2021 and has been updated.
February is Black History Month. This month-long observance in the US...
The World Games 2022 now accepting volunteers for ‘once in a...
By Haley Wilson
The Birmingham Times
With The World Games 2022 (TWG) next year and 3,600 athletes from around the world in Birmingham from July 7...
Google Announces Initiative to Train 100,000 Black Women in Digital Skills...
By Derek Major
Black Enterprise
Google officially launched an initiative last week to provide 100,000 Black women with career development and digital skills training by 2022.
The...
Jennifer King Becomes NFL’s 1st Black Female Assistant Position Coach
Black Voices
Washington promoted Jennifer King to assistant running backs coach Tuesday, making her the first Black female assistant position coach in the NFL.
She is...
One year later: Remembering Kobe Bryant and 8 others who died...
WVNS TV
CALABASAS, Calif. (NewsNation Now) — It’s been one year since NBA legend Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others died in a...
Biden Selects California Sen. Kamala Harris as Running Mate
By Kathleen Ronayne and Will Weissert
Associated Press
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Joe Biden named California Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate on Tuesday, making...
Rep. Chris England elected first black to lead Alabama Democrats
Times staff report
Representative Chris England, of Tuscaloosa, was elected Chair of the Alabama Democratic Party on Saturday, becoming the first African-American to hold the...
