Tag: women
High fashion and high style for a higher purpose at Housing...
By Joseph D. Bryant
Housing Authority of the Birmingham District
The crowd erupted in cheers and applause as each model took a turn dominating the runway.
Co-hosts...
Inspired by his wife’s selfless example, Tracey Muhammad teaches others about...
By Barnett Wright
The Birmingham Times
After his wife was diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer, Tracey Muhammad asked one of the doctors present how he could...
How UAB team eliminated some disparity between black and white women...
By Nick Patterson
The Birmingham Times
Data-driven research has for years borne out that there are diverse health conditions between different demographics—blacks and whites, for instance.
“We...
Sleep disparities between blacks and whites have nationwide impact
By Nick Patterson
The Birmingham Times
Sleep matters. And it matters more depending on your race, according to a study by a group of Auburn University...
Metro Birmingham NAACP salutes outstanding women
Special to the Times
The Metro Birmingham National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) recently held its 17th Annual Salute to Wonderful Outstanding...
Black women publishers drive the black press
By Stacy M. Brown
NNPA Newswire Contributor
In 1827, with the publication of the “Freedom’s Journal,” John Russwurm and Reverend Samuel Cornish established the Black Press...
African American women making a difference in science and technology
By Idrissa N Snider
Special to the Times
The typically male dominated field of STEM -- Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math --
has been undergoing a change...
110th Annual Session of the National Baptist Congress arrives in Birmingham
Photos by Stephonia Taylor Mclinn
Dr. Sheila Bailey, author and President of Sheila B Ministries Inc. delivered the keynote address for the Women of Wisdom...
Black women who boosted Obama are sticking with Clinton
By CATHERINE LUCEY
Associated Press
DETROIT (AP) -- From the pulpit of an African-American church in Detroit not long ago, Bishop Corletta Vaughn offered a rousing...
Ex-Prison Guard Accused of Forcing Inmates to Have Sex
By KATE BRUMBACK, Associated Press
ATLANTA — A former high-ranking corrections officer at a southeast Georgia women’s prison used his position of power to prey...
