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Angela Davis speaks for first time in Birmingham since Civil Rights...
By Erica Wright
The Birmingham Times
Dr. Angela Davis returned home to Birmingham today to speak publicly for the first time since the city’s Civil Rights...
Julianne Malveaux: In Honor of Dr. Angela Davis
Dr. Julianne Malveaux
If anyone deserves a civil rights award, Dr. Angela Davis certainly does. The activist and scholar has been on the front lines...
Richard Friedman: My view of Dr. Angela Davis
By Richard Friedman
Much has been written about the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute’s desire to award its prestigious Fred Shuttlesworth Award to Dr. Angela Davis....
BCRI Celebrates 25 Years of Education, Dialogue and History
By Anita Debro
For the Birmingham Times
The dignified domed building on 16th Street North in downtown Birmingham looks as though it was always meant to...
Former Mayor Richard Arrington Reflects on Birth of BCRI
By Anita Debro
For the Birmingham Times
Richard Arrington Jr., Birmingham’s first elected African-American mayor, doesn’t take credit for establishing the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (BCRI),...
PEOPLE, PLACES AND THINGS
BY GWEN DERU
TODAY
DUSTY LEIGH, JACKSON CAPPS, Q DOTS DAVIS and SECKOND CHAYNCE, at The Nick Rocks.
COMEDIAN HENRY WELCH at the StarDome Comedy Club.
ALGIERS, 7...
Area Students Complete BCRI program detailing city’s role in US history
By Erica Wright
The Birmingham Times
Twenty students from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute’s Legacy Youth Leadership Program (LYLP) graduated Sunday as docents and interns. The...
Birmingham Black Radio Museum maintains unique aspect of local heritage
By Hank Black
Alabama NewsCenter
Peer into the archives of the Birmingham Black Radio Museum and you will find much of the multilayered history of Jefferson...