Tag: African-American

By Jessica Snyder UAB News Live HealthSmart Alabama, a University of Alabama at Birmingham initiative, is celebrating phase one improvements in Titusville with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday, Sept....

By Lois G. Russell ASU The Alabama State University Board of Trustees has voted unanimously to rename one of the campus’s historic residence halls in honor...

Neal Reid auburn.edu Harold A. Franklin, Auburn University’s first African American student, passed away Thursday at his home in Sylacauga, Alabama. He was 88. Franklin integrated Auburn...

By Tira Davis bhamnow.com Samuel Bowie is a 16-year-old student at Birmingham’s Jackson-Olin High School who is the CEO of Kulture Kreations Atelier Photography who now runs...

By Richard Friedman Special to The Birmingham Times There was a fateful day in August of 1960 when the lives of Frances Foster White, an African American teenager...

By Ben Nuckols Associated Press LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Zaila Avant-garde understood the significance of what she was doing as she stood on the...

By Ariel Worthy The Birmingham Times The Ballard House Project will continue its “GATHER for Community Conversations” this week with a forum on Hip Hop and...

By Ariel Worthy The Birmingham Times African-Americans are more likely to develop late-onset Alzheimer’s disease than whites and are less likely be diagnosed with the condition,...

By Freddie Allen NNPA Newswire Managing Editor The employment prospects for African Americans showed little improvement in March, according to the Labor Department’s most recent jobs...

By Nathan Turner Jr. For the Birmingham Times Marian Jones Daniel was 16 years old when a dynamite blast rocked the basement at Bethel Baptist Church...