Tag: human rights
Frank Dukes, Influential Leader of the Birmingham Civil Rights Movement, Dies...
By Barnett Wright
The Birmingham Times
The Rev. Frank Dukes, an influential Birmingham Civil Rights Movement leader and President of Miles College's trailblazing student body in...
City of Birmingham Producing a Film Project; Watch the Trailer
birminghamal.gov
The City of Birmingham is giving voice to the New South in an upcoming film project titled “The South Got Something To Say” which gives an intimate look...
Birmingham Freedom Fest Back In-Person on Saturday
lrymediagroup.com
The City of Birmingham on Saturday will host Birmingham Freedom Fest — a music and empowerment festival held at Kelly Ingram Park, the footprint...
Central Alabama Pride to Lawmakers: Don’t Drag Us Down
By Nicole S. Daniel
The Birmingham Times
Josh Coleman, president of Central Alabama Pride, said the LBGTQ+ community has made a lot of progress in recent...
Judge U.W. Clemon: From Bench to a Focus of Red Mountain...
redmountaintheatre.org
For the fifth year in a row, Red Mountain Theatre will present the Human Rights New Works Festival September 23-25. Over the course of...
Civil Rights Marker Damaged in Birmingham, Here’s Response From BCRI
bcri.org
An Alabama state historical marker named for Bishop Calvin Wallace Woods, Sr., one of Birmingham's greatest civil rights leaders, was intentionally damaged by an...
Angela Davis Receives Birmingham’s Top Human Rights Award
By Erica Wright
The Birmingham Times
Angela Davis, humanitarian, global civil rights activist and Birmingham native on Friday received the Fred Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award from...
Plywood Used to Protect Damaged Buildings; Now Works of Art
Solomon Crenshaw Jr.
For the Birmingham Times
A week after unrest in downtown Birmingham which damaged some businesses, groups of volunteers on Sunday turned remnants of...
At 81, Birmingham’s Maralyn Mosley still goes toe-to-toe with the political...
By Ameera Steward
The Birmingham Times
She’s known simply as “Mrs. Mosley.”
Elected officials, corporate titans, civic leaders, neighborhood officers all know the blunt Maralyn Mosley, who,...
How Dr. Angela Davis and area leaders packed the Boutwell
By Ameera Steward
The Birmingham Times
Dr. Angela Davis was able to do something during her recent visit to Birmingham that hadn’t been seen in the...