City News
MAYOR’S COLUMN: Libraries Change Lives
I can remember being a kid growing up in Birmingham, and how important the library was to me. We’d catch the bus near where I lived and spend the day downtown. We’d go to the […]
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State News
The Most Important Decision Our Government Will Make: Who Will Be Our Next State Superintendent Of Education
The Legislative Session has come to an end, but legislators won’t be the ones making the most important decision our government will make this year. The State Board of Education will make that decision in […]
State News
Governor Kay Ivey: One Year In, Serving Alabama
April 10, 2018, marks one year since I unexpectedly became governor. With only three hours’ notice I was called on to lead. The tasks at hand were plentiful. We had to restore integrity to state […]
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Concordia College in Selma to Close
REPRINT FROM Blackamericaweb.com On last Wednesday, Concordia College announced that it will be closing its doors permanently at the end of this semester. Concordia, a private HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) in Selma, Ala., has […]
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WORLD WAR II VETERAN CELEBRATES CENTENNIAL BIRTHDAY
John Amos Drake, Sr. celebrated his 100th birthday on Saturday, March 24, 2018 at the Union Chapel M.B. Church Boone-Lacy Fellowship Hall. Approximately 400 guests attended this event of grandeur! These well-wishers included […]
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Fifty Years after Kerner and King, Racism Still Matters
“Segregation and poverty have created in the racial ghetto a destructive environment totally unknown to most white Americans. What white Americans have never fully understood but what the Negro can never forget—is that white society […]
Health
Study Says Rubber Duckies are a Haven for Potentially Pathogenic Bacteria
Scientists now have the dirt on the rubber ducky: Those cute yellow bath-time toys are — as some parents have long suspected — a haven for nasty bugs. Swiss and American researchers counted the microbes […]