Coach Rueben Nelson Jr. cradles the championship trophy and football he received after his Ramsay Rams defeated Opelika 21-16 in Jordan-Hare Stadium to win the Class 6A Alabama High School Athletic Association state football championship on Friday, Dec. 2, 2016. (Solomon Crenshaw Jr., special to The Times)
The Birmingham City Council on Tuesday approved $1.5 million in financial incentives over eight years and rezoned property to make way for Alabama’s first Topgolf location. (Provided photo)
Hezekiah Jackson IV said he’s supportive of the younger generation of activists and hopes they realize the similarities between what they are doing and the NAACP. (Provided photo)
Autherine Lucy Foster, Charles Eric Lincoln, Vanzetta Penn McPherson and Frederick Reese are among those honored in the 2017 Alabama African-American History Calendar. (Stephonia Taylor Mclinn, special to The Times)
Legendary journalist Gwen Ifill died recently after a short battle with endometrial cancer. It’s a disease that black women, like Ifill, are disproportionately affected by. (PBS)
Richard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center, right, speaks during a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, Tuesday. Cohen, along with, from left, Wade Henderson, President and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, Brenda Abdelall, with Muslim Advocates, and Janet Murguia, the President and CEO of the National Council of La Raza, called on President-elect Donald Trump to publicly denounce racism and bigotry. (Susan Walsh, Associated Press)