Tag: black history
Talladega College: After heated decision to attend inauguration, Alabama’s Oldest HBCU...
By Ariel Worthy
The Birmingham Times
Looking at the front of Fanning Refectory, which houses the student and faculty dining rooms on the campus of Talladega...
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...
First black chief pilot at major U.S. airline retires
By David Koenig
Associated Press
DALLAS (AP) — Nobody at Southwest told Louis Freeman he would be the first black pilot in the airline’s history when...
99-year-old Negro League player, among oldest living, attends baseball reunion in...
By Solomon Crenshaw Jr.
For The Birmingham Times
Dozens of Negro League baseball players gathered in Birmingham for their annual reunion recently. Among them was 99-year-old...
Jackie Robinson Day celebrated by Negro Southern League Museum, Barons
By Solomon Crenshaw Jr.
For The Birmingham Times
Brad and Tameka Sanders already had a baseball-filled day Saturday. The McCalla couple had been on hand as...
Alabama’s Prince Hall Masons have rich history in self-improvement, social responsibility
By Monique Jones
The Birmingham Times
A refurbished the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons (F & AM) of Alabama, Temple Building...
Historic Rickwood Field closes for emergency repairs
Special to The Times
Historic Rickwood Field in Birmingham, the country's oldest ballpark, has been closed for repairs, the city announced late Friday.
Engineers have declared...
Album with rare 1860s Harriet Tubman photo sells for $161K
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) - An album containing a rare photograph of 19th century abolitionist and Underground Railroad hero Harriet Tubman was sold Thursday...
John L. Harrison Jr., of the famed Tuskegee Airmen, dies
By Errin Haines Whack
Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — John L. Harrison Jr., who served as a World War II pilot with the famed all-black Tuskegee...
William Coleman, civil rights lawyer who shattered racial barriers, dies
Jeff Horwitz
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — William T. Coleman Jr., a civil rights lawyer from Philadelphia who prevailed in several landmark Supreme Court cases, broke...
