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“…I believe my hair is a blessing. Even though I’ve been ridiculed for it, and it’s been treated like a toy, I love my hair.”

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-Brooklyn Chandler, an 8th grader at Birmingham’s W.J. Christian K-8 School, who was selected as one of 55 U.S. winners of Google’s 15th Annual Doodle for Google contest; birminghamtimes.com, May 19.

“I realized, by taking the [cosmetology] course, that I can actually do this as a career and actually have a job where I enjoy what I do, instead of just working to get paid and to go home,”

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-Jayla Buchanan, a junior in Woodlawn’s Academy of Business and Finance, on learning she could do hair and nails as a profession; The Birmingham Times, May 25

‘Within a Week … I Knew He Was Going to Be My Husband’

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 BY JE’DON HOLLOWAY-TALLEY

Special to the Birmingham Times

Alabama’s ‘Culture of Removal’ Takes Toll on Black Students

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Corey Jones stands with his son, CJ, outside of their home in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. CJ ended up leaving Bryant High School in 2023 after a long-running dispute about a disciplinary incident. (Savannah Tryens-Fernandes/AL.com)

By Savannah Tryens-Fernandes | stryens-fernandes@al.com

‘Two Brothers’ Blend Jewish Music and African American Spirituals

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Dmitri Gaskin, left, and Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell make up Tsvey Brider, which is Yiddish for "Two Brothers." They performed in April at Temple Beth-El on Birmingham's Southside community. (Adam Wiseman Photo)

By Kiara Dunlap

For The Birmingham Times

How The HBCU Experience, And Golf, Shaped Four Black Men in Alabama

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Attending a historically Black college or university, and playing the game of golf, can be life-changing, say four old friends who recently reunited on the golf course. (Joey Blackwell/Alabama News Center)

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