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Penny Foundation Builds Black Businesses and Leaders in Alabama and Beyond
By Morgan Jackson
Alabama Newscenter
August is Black Philanthropy Month, a national celebration of African American and African-descent giving and community outreach. It is also a time...
The Late Shelly Millender Jr., Who Helped Desegregate Birmingham Library, Honored
By Roy L. Williams
cobpl.org
The Board of Trustees of the Birmingham Public Library presented a resolution to the family of the late Shelly Millender Jr.,...
Minority consultants key in BWWB bond sale that saves more than...
bwwb.org
The Birmingham Water Works Board (BWWB) last week approved the final sale of over $480 million in taxable bonds to replace higher interest rate...
Attorney Ben Crump, Bradford family angry after Alabama AG says Hoover...
Times staff report
The lawyer for the family of a 21-year-old black man shot and killed by Hoover police on Thanksgiving night said it was...
AG: No charges for Hoover police officer in Bradford Jr. killing
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall today informed the Hoover Police Department and the Alabama State Bureau of Investigation that the Hoover police officer who...
Friends, family, dignitaries bid solemn farewell to Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr.
By Ameera Steward
The Birmingham Times
Friends, family, activists, elected officials and dignitaries gathered Saturday at the Boutwell Auditorium in downtown Birmingham to bid a solemn...
Zillah M. Fluker named V.P. of Institutional Advancement at Miles College
Times staff report
Zillah M. Fluker has been appointed as Vice President, Institutional Advancement at Miles College, announced George T. French, Jr., President, Miles College.
She...
Travel Writer, Author And Educator Verna Gates: ‘I Choose Birmingham’
By Verna Gates
I choose Birmingham. That iron ore must have seeped into the fibers of my body. It draws me back like a magnet. ...
Foot Soldiers’ Reunion at the St. Paul A.M.E. Church-Smithfield.
Members of the Civil Rights Activist Committee this month held their annual Foot Soldiers’ Reunion at the St. Paul A.M.E. Church-Smithfield.
The gathering featured art...
The Way I See It
by Hollis Wormsby, Jr.
What Is Our Lack of Faith Killing?
I talked with a Pastor this weekend on what the meaning of Easter was to...
