Tag: history
Nick Patterson named Digital Content Coordinator for The Birmingham Times
Times staff report
Nicholas Patterson has been named digital content coordinator for the Birmingham Times Media Group, Inc.
Patterson, who was born in Ensley and raised...
Simone Askew is first black woman to lead West Point cadets
WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) — Making history.
Simone Askew is making history as the first black woman to lead the Long Grey Line at the...
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...
Golden State Warriors vote unanimously not to visit White House? If...
By Ricardo A. Hazell
The Shadow League
It's the first time in history a team unanimously votes not to visit the White House after winning it...
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...
The Negro Southern League Museum and the revitalization of Birmingham
By Solomon Crenshaw Jr.
For The Birmingham Times
For Natasha Rogers, executive director of the Negro Southern League Museum (NSLM) in downtown Birmingham, the museum and...
Black History: Bethel Baptist Church in Birmingham played key role in...
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...
Listing of places across Alabama that helped give birth to the...
By Monique Jones
The Birmingham Times
Just before leaving office in January 2017, President Barack Obama designated two new national monuments in Alabama to honor our...
Black history landmarks are scattered throughout the Southeast. Here are 39.
By Blackpast.org
Listed below are the African American National Historic Landmarks by states in the South and Southeast, as certified by the National Park Service’s...
History of African-American Marching Bands
Times Staff Report
By most accounts, the first-ever black college football game, played in Salisbury, N.C, in December 1892, had a festive, picnic-like atmosphere not...
