“Not all seeds bloom in the time that we can see it. Think about people like Martin Luther King, Jr, like Fannie Lou Hamer. The seeds that they planted … we get to benefit from that fruit.”
President and CEO of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (BCRI)Thompson in a Nov. 17 interview published in The Birmingham Times
“Jazz has been missing in Birmingham for nearly a decade, so it’s time to come enjoy everything you’ve been missing.”
-Rod Conwell, one of four founders of Uptown Jazz Lounge, which opened Oct. 27, according to a Nov. 11 story from Bham Now.







