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Brianna Burrell Begins Reign as Miss Alabama 2023, Third Black Woman Crowned

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Emma Wright, Miss Leeds Area, helps Brianna Burrell, Miss Alabama 2023, with hair and crown after the finale of the Miss Alabama Competition, July 1, 2023, at the Wright Center at Samford University. This year, 42 women competed for the state title, scholarship money and the chance to move on to the Miss America competition. Burrell was crowned Miss Alabama 2023. (Tamika Moore/Al.com)
By Mary Colurso | mcolurso@al.com

Ramsay High School’s Jaidynn Perkins-Martin Headed to Yale University

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After graduating from Phillips Academy, Jaidynn Perkins-Martin attended Ramsay High School, which she describes as “competitive, but in a friendly way." (PROVIDED PHOTO)
By Nicole S. Daniel
The Birmingham Times

Ultra-Talented Cast, Youth Ensembles Help Close RMT’s ‘Season of Big Dreams’

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Amy Johnson as narrator and cast. (Red Mountain Theatre/Stewart Edmonds)
redmountaintheatre.org

People, Places and Things

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GWEN DERU

“…the State of Alabama has shamelessly chosen to ignore the U.S. Supreme Court.”

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-U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell on a new congressional map drawn by state lawmakers that only contains one majority-Black district, instead of two as ruled by the U.S. Supreme Court; birminghamtimes.com, July 22.

“We can’t address all of Birmingham’s problems, but in a small context, we can put people together…”

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-Mark Conner, executive director of Hardware Park, on the “MedTech Device Experience,” a camp this summer for Birmingham area students; The Birmingham Times, July 21.

God is Always Working on [My Husband] Like He’s Working on Me’

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BY JE’DON HOLLOWAY-TALLEY

Special to the Birmingham Times