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Housing Authority residents host first legislative breakfast for elected officials

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Residents led by the Citizens Participation Advisory Board, recently hosted their first legislative breakfast at the Smithfield Court Community Center. (Special to The Times)

By Joseph D. Bryant

Housing Authority of the Birmingham District

Four steps to reduce poverty, violence in Birmingham city schools

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Hollis Wormsby, Jr

By Hollis Wormsby, Jr.

How Assistant U.S. Attorney Xavier Carter plans to fight human trafficking in Alabama

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Xavier Carter (Provided photo)

By Ariel Worthy

The Birmingham Times

Former Miles College coach, Brighton (AL) native inducted into Black College Football Hall of Fame

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Former Miles College football coach Billy Joe poses with his daughter after his induction to the Black College Football Hall of Fame. (Sam Crenshaw, special to The Times)

By Solomon Crenshaw Jr.

For The Birmingham Times

Presidents of Miles and Talladega Colleges among those who met Trump in the White House

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President Donald Trump meets with the presidents and chancellors from the nation's Historically Black Colleges and Universities. (Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA)

By Lauren Victoria Burke

National Newspaper Publishers Association

Wenonah High School student runs for state officer position with non-profit organization

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Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (Facebook)

Special to The Times

Aggressive agenda a focus for Democrats in Alabama Legislature

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Alabama State Senator Rodger M. Smitherman

By Rodger Smitherman

UAB program helps minority and disabled students excel as scientists

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Each Roadmap Scholar works closely with a research mentor. Here, scholar Lillian Brady, right, meets with neurobiology associate professor Lynn Dobrunz. (Steve Wood, UAB News)

By Nancy Mann Jackson

UAB News 

Tuskegee: How one Alabama town helped shape history

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The Varner-Alexander House, on Montgomery Street in Tuskegee was one of the finest mansions of Alabama’s Piedmont section. It was built in 1840 by William Varner, a pioneer settler of Macon County. It is reported that Varner himself designed and supervised construction of the mansion.

Special to The Times