Tag: African-American

www.bcatoday.org MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Business Council of Alabama (BCA) announced this week that Helena Duncan has been selected as the organization’s next President and...

By Anna Jones UAB News Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham published a paper in the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities demonstrating the importance of respecting the...

By Ryan Michaels The Birmingham Times Margaret Burnham, co-founder of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, will be at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church on...

By Andrew Chung (Reuters) - When Evan Milligan, a voting rights activist and organizer, scans his hometown of Montgomery, the capital of the state of...

By The Associated Press Stillman College’s first female president, Cynthia Warrick, has announced plans to retire after leading the Tuscaloosa, Alabama-based historically Black college for...

By Ryan Michaels The Birmingham Times Birmingham on Thursday commemorated the 59th year since the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church on Sept. 15, 1963...

The Birmingham Times Lisa McNair, whose sister was one of four little girls killed on Sept. 15, 1963 in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, has...

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Emory University in Atlanta has announced the first African American Studies Ph.D. Program in the Southeast...

The Birmingham Times/AL.com Juneteenth is a holiday that seems to get a little more joyous across Alabama every year, and judging from the ever-increasing number...

By Ryan Michaels The Birmingham Times Larry Silver was first pulled into art by a drawing his mother, Betty, had done that hung in the living...