Tag: African-American
‘Community Conversations’ Continue this week at The Ballard House
By Ariel Worthy
The Birmingham Times
The Ballard House Project will continue its “GATHER for Community Conversations” this week with a forum on Hip Hop and...
UAB doctors focus on disparities among Alzheimer’s patients
By Ariel Worthy
The Birmingham Times
African-Americans are more likely to develop late-onset Alzheimer’s disease than whites and are less likely be diagnosed with the condition,...
Job Prospects flat for black workers in March
By Freddie Allen
NNPA Newswire Managing Editor
The employment prospects for African Americans showed little improvement in March, according to the Labor Department’s most recent jobs...
Black History: Bethel Baptist Church in Birmingham played key role in...
By Nathan Turner Jr.
For the Birmingham Times
Marian Jones Daniel was 16 years old when a dynamite blast rocked the basement at Bethel Baptist Church...
Listing of places across Alabama that helped give birth to the...
By Monique Jones
The Birmingham Times
Just before leaving office in January 2017, President Barack Obama designated two new national monuments in Alabama to honor our...
Black history landmarks are scattered throughout the Southeast. Here are 39.
By Blackpast.org
Listed below are the African American National Historic Landmarks by states in the South and Southeast, as certified by the National Park Service’s...
The forgotten opioid epidemic: African Americans and heroin
By Glenn Ellis
“A junkie walking through the twilight, I'm on my way home.
I left three days ago, but no one seems to know I'm...
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...
Breast cancer survivor: ‘I’m not going to be a victim. I’m...
By Denise Stewart
For the Birmingham Times
At 8 o’clock on a late-September morning, Paula Garfield laced up her sneakers and took her place at the...
$27M Initiative to Reduce Breast Cancer Deaths in African-American Community
Special to The Times
WASHINGTON -- The Susan G. Komen breast cancer organization gathered philanthropic, civic, medical and business leaders in Washington recently to formally...