Birmingham Times
How Birmingham United to Secure a Historic $50 Million Federal Grant
By Ryan Michaels
The Birmingham Times
Dontrelle Young-Foster, President and CEO of the Housing Authority of the Birmingham District (HABD) got an email in midsummer that...
Smithfield Residents Weigh In on Their Neighborhood’s Transformation
By Ryan Michaels
The Birmingham Times
Resident engagement strengthened the application that eventually led to the city of Birmingham securing a $50 million Choice Neighborhoods grant...
Top Black Chefs Heading to Magic City for 1st-Ever Bham FOOD+Culture...
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After being known for generations as a gritty, blue-collar town with a troubled racial history, Birmingham has worked hard to change its image. In...
Birmingham’s Janelle Sweeney Defines Resilience
By Keisa Sharpe-Jefferson
For The Birmingham Times
Once you meet the owner of Janelle Sweeney of Janelle’s Attic Gold, a California native who’s called Birmingham home...
When It’s Time to Make You a Priority
By Keisa Sharpe-Jefferson
The Birmingham Times
It may be an uncomfortable thought or conversation, but there are times you simply must make you a priority. And I...
Raising Awareness About Preparedness
By Samuetta Hill Drew
As we begin our third safety article this month on preparedness, I believe it is important to note that September is...
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“Why has it taken 232 years and 115 prior appointments for...
-Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, birminghamtimes.com, Sept. 16.
“The major trauma for me was the beating he took here...
-Patricia Shuttlesworth Massengill, 80, daughter of the legendary Birmingham Civil Rights leader Fred L. Shuttlesworth at Phillips Academy, which renamed its auditorium in honor...
Inside Birmingham’s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church on Sept. 15, 1963
By Barnett Wright
The Birmingham Times
A phone rings inside the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in downtown Birmingham, Alabama. Fifteen-year-old Carolyn Maull lifts up the receiver.
The...