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Urban League, others to host Debate Watch Parties on Monday

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Birmingham Urban League Young Professionals

By Ariel Worthy

The Birmingham Times

Nobel Peace Prize winner to speak at UAB on Sept. 29

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Liberian peace and women's rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Leymah Gbowee will give a lecture at the University of Alabama at Birmingham on Thursday, Sept. 29. (Provided photo)

By Tiffany Westry

UAB News

Bishop Jim Lowe: He ran from divine calling but became a guiding light

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Bishop Jim Lowe (Frank Couch, special to The Birmingham Times)

By Solomon Crenshaw Jr.

For The Birmingham Times

Honorees for 2016 Vulcan Awards announced

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Odessa Woodfolk (left) and Henna Budhwani (right) are among the honorees for the 2016 Vulcan Awards.

Times staff report

Birmingham effect contributes to record 19,535 students who #ChooseUAB

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The 6.56 percent increase in the student population at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, from 2015 to 2016 is significant at a time when many universities across the nation struggle with declines. (Special to the Times)

By Jim Bakken

UAB News

Police chief: Officers shot man after warning him to drop gun

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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney said during a news conference that 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott was shot because he was armed and posed a threat. (Associated Press)

By Jeffrey Collins

Associated Press

Video shows man had hands up before police shooting

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This undated photo provided by the Parks & Crump, LLC shows Terence Crutcher, left, with his father, Joey Crutcher. Crutcher, an unarmed black man was killed by a white Oklahoma officer Friday, Sept. 16, 2016, who was responding to a stalled vehicle. (Courtesy of Crutcher Family/Parks &; Crump, LLC via AP)

By Justin Juozapavicius

Associated Press

Fulfilling a need: Doctors see importance of Parks Rx

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Hamidullah Rahmann poses by a basketball court that is scheduled to be renovated at Stockham Park. (Mark Almond, special to The Times)

By Melissa Brown

Special to the Times

Your health: Parks, green spaces promote exercise

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Katie Fox, nurse practitioner, discusses the Parks RX program at the Jefferson County Department of Health in Birmingham, Ala., Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2016. (Mark Almond, special to the Times)

By Ariel Worthy

The Birmingham Times