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Birmingham hosts more than 10,000 athletes from across the U.S. for 2017 senior games

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Myrna Moline gets set to practice in the pool at the Bessemer Recreation Center. The New Orleans native and South Titusville resident prepares for the National Senior Games this week in Birmingham. (Solomon Crenshaw Jr./For The Birmingham Times).

By Solomon Crenshaw Jr.
For the Birmingham Times

Love key to success for husband-wife team competing in mixed doubles

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Earl and Betty Austin train at Pelham Racquet Club. The Pelham couple – he’s 68 and she’s 66 – will play mixed doubles in the National Senior Games in Birmingham. (Solomon Crenshaw Jr./For The Birmingham Times).

By Solomon Crenshaw Jr.
For the Birmingham Times

16-year-old Diamond Sparks lost both parents, but prepares for concert of a lifetime in Sydney, Australia

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Diamond Sparks (second from left) performs in a production of Amahl and the Night Visitors at Miles College. The multitalented Alabama School of Fine Arts junior is set to sing in an Honors Performance Choir in July in Sydney, Australia.

By Denise Stewart
For The Birmingham Times

Parker High School alum takes dance skills from Birmingham to Shanghai

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By Je’Don Holloway Talley
For the Birmingham Times

UAB launches clinic dedicated to breast cancer survivors

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Patients are eligible for the Breast Cancer Survivorship Clinic if they have received a diagnosis of breast cancer, stages 0 to IIIC and are at least 12 months from diagnosis.

By Beena Thannickal
UAB News

St. Vincent’s hosts 30th Annual National Cancer Survivors Day

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National Cancer Survivors Day® is a CELEBRATION for those who have survived, an INSPIRATION for those recently diagnosed, a gathering of SUPPORT for families, and an OUTREACH to the community.

Special to the Times

UAB PhD student travels to Africa for foreign studies

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Roman Johnson, a first-year Ph.D. student, will travel to Morocco this summer to study Arabic. (Provided Photo).
By Tiffany Westry Womack
UAB News

Grassroots group presents “black agenda” to mayoral candidates

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By Trenisha Wiggins
The Birmingham Times

Birmingham’s linguistic landscape poses challenges for some

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The students surveyed the ways in which local hospitals use different languages. (UAB Magazine).

By Alan Kianoff
UAB Magazine