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Smithfield & Elyton Walk Club marks three years of promoting healthy activity

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Members said the club offers a support system where they encourage each other to keep going. They even bought matching red T-shirts. (Frank Couch, The Birmingham Times)

By Joseph D. Bryant

Housing Authority of the Birmingham District

BCRI Elects 11 to its Board

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The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute

Special to The Times

Preparing veterans for their next call of duty

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Jocelyn Stokes, a 15-year Army veteran, is now working toward a degree in health care management in UAB's top-rated program. Expanded Yellow Ribbon benefits at UAB mean out-of-state students can attend tuition-free in many cases. (Provided photo)

By Matt Windsor

UAB News

14th-ranked Tuskegee ready for Division II playoffs

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By Donald Hunt

For The Birmingham Times

Tips for getting deals for the Black Friday weekend

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People crowd the first floor of Macy's department store after they opened at midnight in New York to start the stores' "Black Friday" shopping weekend. (Stan Honda, Creative Commons)

By Anne D’Innocenzio

AP Retail Writer

Dave Chappelle, ‘SNL’ give thoughtful coda to election

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Dave Chappelle and Kate McKinnon provided the Saturday Night Live audience much to think about in regards to the recent presidential election.

By Lynn Elber

AP Television Writer

Artists hang black nylons to protest post-Civil War racist

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In this July 17, 2015 file photo, the statue honoring former South Carolina governor and U.S. senator "Pitchfork" Ben Tillman is seen on the grounds of the Statehouse in Columbia, S.C. Authorities are investigating Monday, Nov. 14, 2016, after someone left black nylon stockings filled with dirt hanging from tree branches outside a South Carolina University hall named for an avowed racist. A Winthrop University Police report says 12 stockings were found Sunday outside Tillman Hall, with a sign taped over a plaque reading "Tillman's Legacy." (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins, File)

By Jeffrey Collins

Associated Press

Sikh truckers reach settlement in faith discrimination case

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From left: Lakhbir Singh, Palwinder Singh and Jagtar Singh Anandpuri. They are three of the four truck drivers who complained about religious discrimination at the J.B. Hunt trucking company. (The Sikh Coalition, the Associated Press)

By Brian Melley

Associated Press

Food Safety and Holiday Preparation

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By Samuetta Hill Drew

I would have never believed

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Dr. Jesse Lewis, Sr.

By Dr. Jesse Lewis, Sr.