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The Morgan Project Highlights One of Birmingham’s Most Impassioned Speeches
By Solomon Crenshaw Jr.
The Birmingham Times
Former U.S. Senator Doug Jones summed up it best when he told a gathering Wednesday at the Sixteenth Street...
Minneapolis protests spread to other cities across the US, including Birmingham
By The Associated Press
Developments across the United States in connection with the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody:
BIRMINGHAM, Ala -- More than...
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...
Sheila Tyson to Galleria Mall protesters: organize; remain peaceful
Times Staff Report
Jefferson County Commissioner Sheila Tyson said comments about her calling for a boycott at the Riverchase Galleria in Hoover were incorrect.
Tyson said...
‘Enough is enough.’ YWCA Brings Awareness to Rash of Domestic...
By Ariel Worthy
Times staff reporter
October is usually Domestic Violence Awareness Month, but because of recent multiple killings in Birmingham, the YWCA decided waiting until...
Former Alabama RB Altee Tenpenny dies in car crash
GREENVILLE, Miss. (AP) — A 20-year-old college football player was killed in a one-car crash in Mississippi, a local coroner said Wednesday.
Altee Tenpenny was...
Gunman shoots news crew during live broadcast; kills reporter and photographer
A Virginia news crew was shot and killed early Wednesday morning during a live broadcast.
WDBJ reporter Allison Parker and photojournalist Adam Ward were broadcasting at...
White suspect confesses to deadly attack on black U.S. church –...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En-A7t38cVY
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - A 21-year-old white man confessed to shooting dead nine black people at a historic South Carolina church, and hoped his...
U.S. Conference of Mayors President Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson Issue Statement...
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Conference of Mayors President and Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson issued the following statement in response to the law-enforcement shooting in...
