Tag: women

By Nicole S. Daniel The Birmingham Times Brenda Lovelady Spahn, founder/executive director of The Lovelady Center in Birmingham, remembers when staff had to “glue together the...

Compiled by Chanda Temple birminghamal.gov Honorees selected for the City of Birmingham's StrongHer initiative are true examples that strength is more than physical; it's mental, too. Their strength is brave...

Nicole S. Daniel Birmingham Times In a room of single mothers like herself, Shatoria Peavy was left in tears when a young woman, whose husband recently...

By Nicole S. Daniel Birmingham Times Nadia Richardson, PhD, founder and CEO of the Black Women’s Mental Health Institute, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to building...

Compiled by Nicole S. Daniel Photographs by Desiree Greenwood The Birmingham Times As we come to the end of Women’s History Month, the Birmingham Times spent the...

www.wbir.com NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A woman headed to Vanderbilt University recently made history when she matched in its neurosurgery residency program. Tamia Potter graduated from Florida...

birminghamal.gov In 2019, Mayor Randall Woodfin’s administration launched the #StrongHER campaign to highlight some of the unsung “sheroes’’ living, working, volunteering or inspiring others in...

By Nicole S. Daniel The Birmingham Times Whenever Birmingham’s Kyla Carr is feeling a little down she can hop on a private jet and travel anywhere...

By Nicole Daniel The Birmingham Times Benette Eason, a U.S. Air Force medical technician, is used to helping others with medical emergencies—then, she was diagnosed with...

By Ryan Michaels The Birmingham Times Kimber Washington is a single mother of four, who works two jobs and lives in a home she owns in...