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Album with rare 1860s Harriet Tubman photo sells for $161K

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Swann Galleries

Associated Press

There is no honor among thieves

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Dr. Jesse Lewis, Sr.

By Dr. Jesse Lewis, Sr.

Frederick Douglass honored on new quarter

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U.S. Mint

By Monique Jones

The Birmingham Times

Mayor’s office, police chief announce 30-day initiative to reduce crime

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Police Chief A.C. Roper and Mayor William Bell announce a month-long operation in efforts to decrease violence in the city. (Ariel Worthy, The Birmingham Times)

Ariel Worthy

The Birmingham Times

John L. Harrison Jr., of the famed Tuskegee Airmen, dies

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Tuskegee Airman Eugene J. Richardson Jr., places a flower on the casket containing the remains of his comrade John L. Harrison, Jr., after Harrison's a funeral mass at the Chapel of the Four Chaplains in Philadelphia, Friday, March 31, 2017. Harrison Jr. became one of America's first black military airmen, one of nearly 1,000 pilots who trained as a segregated unit with the Army Air Forces at an airfield near Tuskegee, Ala. (Matt Rourke, Associated Press)

By Errin Haines Whack

Associated Press

Birmingham hosts global electric transportation conference

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Personal electric vehicles are becoming a larger part of the automotive mix and electric transportation is growing in other areas as well. (Katie Bolton, Alabama NewsCenter)

Katie Bolton

Alabama NewsCenter

Tuskegee trying to become Air Force trainer manufacture site

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Leonardo President Filippo Bagnato, Leonardo DRS CEO Bill Lynn and Ala., Gov Robert Bentley talk near a model of the proposed T-100 jet trainer at the Leonardo DRS T-100 trainer jet announcement on Thursday, March 30, 2017 in Tuskegee, Ala. (Todd J. Van Emst/Opelika-Auburn News via AP)

By Kim Chandler

Associated Press

The Negro Southern League Museum and the revitalization of Birmingham

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Since its opening in 2015, nearly 20,000 people have visited the Negro Southern League Museum. (NSLM photo)

By Solomon Crenshaw Jr.

For The Birmingham Times