Tag: quotes
“…I believe my hair is a blessing. Even though I’ve been...
-Brooklyn Chandler, an 8th grader at Birmingham’s W.J. Christian K-8 School, who was selected as one of 55 U.S. winners of Google's 15th Annual...
“This building here is a landmark; this is Black trans history...
-Daroneshia Duncan-Boyd, founder and executive director of TAKE (Transgender Advocate Knowledgeable and Empowering), which recently opened new resource center in East Birmingham, according to...
“Sooner or later…the road will lead back to Birmingham. I’m doing...
-Roy Wood Jr., the Birmingham comedian set to be featured at the upcoming White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, according to a story on birminghamtimes.com...
“He’s still down there breathing right now. He still has life,...
-Antonio Green, whose cousin Toforest Johnson has been on death row since 1998 following a conviction, which Green and many in the state's legal...
“In her quiet way, she changed the way things were done,...
-Julia Knight, an Atlanta sculptor selected by the Alabama Women’s Tribute Statue Commission to create a nine-and-a-half-foot bronze sculpture of Civil Rights titan Rosa...
“…you can be successful, but you have to know what’s going...
-Nadia Richardson, PhD, founder and CEO of the Black Women’s Mental Health Institute, a national nonprofit based in Birmingham which provides support for singles...
“It is rough for anybody just getting out if they don’t...
Edward Cargill, who served about five years in prison during a Second Chance Hiring Fair at the Boutwell in a March 22 story that...
10 Birmingham-Area Women Share The Best Advice They’ve Received
Compiled by Nicole S. Daniel
Photographs by Desiree Greenwood
The Birmingham Times
As we come to the end of Women’s History Month, the Birmingham Times spent the...
“…you can have everything, but you can’t have it all at...
-Angela Baumann, a Birmingham woman, recalls the best piece of advice she's received, according to a March 1 story from The Birmingham Times.
“This is what you’ve got to do: Wake up, look up...
-George Hamilton, Meal on Wheels volunteer, as told to bhamnow.com on Feb. 23.