Birmingham Black History Project

This is a great video filmed by international documentary makers with clips from 1978. It starts just driving through Birmingham, AL at night and then clips of white life in Birmingham from discos to high school to college life to downtown shopping and more. The last 7 minutes focus on the underclass black conditions in Birmingham starting at the 43 minute mark if you want to fast forward. The group is working on a new version in memory of those whot shot the film in 1978.

Inspraak 1978 - Amerika in alle staten - BRT This television documentary was made for the BRT program 'Inspraak', a late night show that focused on topics for adolescents. Documentary reporting was done...

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Woodlawn For The (W) All roads lead to Woodlawn, or at least 1st Avenue North. This was not always the case. In the early mid 1980's, Woodlawn begin to see the results and by products of white flight and the crack epidemic. The glory days of Tony Nathan leading the Woodlawn High School Colonels to being a football power...

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How to Contact Chairpersons and Members of all 10 Birmingham City Council Committees The Birmingham Times

Coach Reginald McGary dies of heart attack, Ex-Birmingham City School Coach passed away   The Birmingham City Schools' basketball community is grieving the departure of a coaching luminary, with the heartbreaking news of Coach Reginald "C

Legendary... There are those who step in after the fact and there are those who create the civil rights campaigns.

Frank Dukes, Influential Leader of the Birmingham Civil Rights Movement, Dies at 92 By Barnett Wright The Birmingham Times

A look at For My People by Margaret Walker Featuring Illustrations by Elizabeth Catlett For My People is a 18-1/2 x 22-1/2 inch limited edition book, with poetry by Margaret Walker and featuring six vibrant lithographs by Elizabeth Catlett on 10...

The story of Margaret Walker born in Birmingham AL 1915

Story of Margret Walker Student Documentary

Birmingham’s own

For My People by Margaret Walker | Poetry Magazine For my people everywhere singing their slave songs

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Margaret Walker was born on July 7, 1915, in Birmingham, Alabama was a college student at the age of 15 when she begin writing poetry. She received a BA from Northwestern University in 1935 and an MA from the University of Iowa in 1940. In 1936 she joined the Federal Writers’ Project in Chicago, where she became friends with Richard Wright and joined his South Side Writers Group.
In 1941 Walker became the first African American poet to receive the Yale Younger Poets Prize, for her debut collection For My People (Yale University Press, 1942). She was also the author of the poetry collections This Is My Century: New and Collected Poems (University of Georgia Press, 1989), October Journey (Broadside Press, 1973), and Prophets for a New Day (Broadside Press, 1970).
Walker married Firnist Alexander in 1943, and together they had four children. In 1949 they moved to Mississippi, where she joined the faculty at Jackson State College. She returned to the University of Iowa for her doctoral studies and received a PhD in 1965. The following year, she published her dissertation as a novel, Jubilee (Houghton Mifflin, 1966).
In 1968 Walker founded the Institute for the Study of the History, Life, and Culture of Black People at Jackson State College. As director of the institute, which was later renamed the Margaret Walker Center, she organized the 1971 National Evaluative Conference on Black Studies and the 1973 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival.
After Walker retired from teaching in 1979, she published On Being Female, Black, and Free (University of Tennessee Press, 1997), a collection of personal essays, and Richard Wright: Daemonic Genius (Warner Books, 1988), a work of nonfiction informed by her friendship with Wright. Margaret Walker died of cancer on November 30, 1998, in Jackson, Mississippi.

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Today, our hearts are heavy as we morn the loss of former Deputy Chief Leroy Stover. As the first black officer to integrate the Birmingham force, his legacy and work at the Birmingham Police Department paved a way for others to follow in his footsteps. We offer our full condolences to the family and know that he would forever be in our hearts and mind.

A mix of videos from Jackson Olin High School early 80s: Graduation, Classroom, Parade, Volleyball, Track, Baseball, etc...

JOHS1 This is a video review of Jackson-Olin High Schoolfrom the early 1980's.The conclusion of this review is JOHS2.

Bison/Herd News Flash
Volleyball

Congratulations to our Lady Bison
Volleyball team on being the
Class 6A Area 9 Runner-Up 2023

These scholar athletes and Coach have worked really hard all season to make it to this point. We're extremely proud of you all. See you in Huntsville next week Ladies.

A. H. Parker High School
Lady Bison
Record (17-16)

125 years for Miles College

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Miles College celebrating 125 years in Birmingham | Bham Now Founded in 1898, Miles College is the only Historically Black College and University (HBCU) in the Birmingham metro.

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Rosenwald Schools exhibit coming to Alabama Archives Department The Alabama Department of Archives & History is debuting a temporary exhibit on Rosenwald Schools. For more Local News from WSFA: https://www.wsfa.com/ Fo...

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Neighbors in 35th Avenue Superfund site asking for help from city On Tuesday, a group of North Birmingham neighbors spoke about their frustrations living in a Superfund site and asked the city for assistance.

It's getting interesting in Birmingham, with several public officials falling recently and Brian K. Rice sharing actual letters he has written to the Department of Justice and FBI in his book covering Birmingham small business and reldining history from 1899 to 2023. Every once in and while people stand for their rights. Visit www.briankrice.com

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Today we honor you, Nell Carter.

Tracks of My Tears - Nell Carter From a private pressing of a record to benefit Nell Carter's high school Alma Mater. Very rare find of the late, great Nell Carter! -Video Upload powered by ...

Great 1985 singing performance by Nell Carter, Telma Hopkins, and Lynn Thigpen

Gimme a Break - "Motown Medley" - Alabama Bound - 1985 - Nell Carter Gimme a Break - "Motown Medley" - "Alabama Bound" - 1985 - Nell Carter, Telma Hopkins, Lynne Thigpen

Birmingham, born and raised. Today we honor you, Nell Carter. Thank you for your legacy and memories.

Birmingham's own, Nell Ruth Hardy was born on 9/13/1948, but we know her as Nell Carter. Today we honor you, Nell. Gimme a Break! A 1966 graduate of A.H. Parker High School.

Gimme a Break Theme Song Intro Visit our Gimme A Break fan page at:http://www.crazyabouttv.com/gimmeabreak.htmlGimme A Break aired for 6 seasons from 1981-1987 on NBC for a total of 137 ep...

Jim Crow Housing Advertisements in Birmingham: Colored homes for sale on "rent terms" in both the 1937 and 1940 Birmingham advertisements. Colored's were locked out of Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) and Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loans during the New Deal legislation through redlining maps so across the country like in this add from Birmingham, Colored's bought homes on rent terms. If they missed 1 payment, the entire contract would be void. This was one of the biggest scams in history hurting Colored ownership as Colored's would be the first to be fired when ever their was a dip in business for the employer. It was unconstitutional to be locked out of federal backed loans but it was the height of Jim Crow and Colored's had little to no power. Colored's across the country

Last in the 2023 to 2026 Classic saga contract.

Alabama A&M Abandoned Its Superior Bargaining Power and Surrendered to Magic City Classic Promoters By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on October 4, 2023 An Editorial Opinion After a year of refusing to sign a new four-year agreement with the Alabama Sports Council to promote the annual Magic City Classic, Alabama A&M University (AA&MU) ended its holdout and announced a new deal Tuesd...

Voting has just changed in Alabama with final newly approved maps. District 2 and District 7 both almost 50% Black.

The Donald Watkins series on the recent history of the financial management of the AAMU and ASU Classic, the largest HBCU football game in the country may change the path forever more.
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Did Magic City Classic Promoters Skim a 20% Commission on City Money for Annual Football Game? By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on October 2, 2023 An Editorial Opinion Last year, a team of top officials from Alabama A&M University (AA&MU) met with Mayor Randall Woodfin and his staff to discuss several topics relating to the recently concluded 2022 Magic City Classic. They quest...

Magic City Classic Deals Spotlight An Inexcusable Lack of Financial Oversight By ASU and AA&MU By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on September 25, 2023 An Editorial Opinion On September 22, 2023, I published an exclusive investigative article exposing the fact that the Alabama Sports Council ripped off Alabama State University (ASU) and Alabama A&M University (AA&MU) in producing...

AAMU want to know where the money is going and they have been asking nearly 7 months.

Alabama A&M cease-and-desist letter ires public officials, casts ‘doubt’ on Magic City Classic In the letter, A&M demands that the Alabama Sports Council, which sells sponsorships and operates the event, stop using the university logos or photos containing A&M players to promote or sell sponsorships.

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Did you know that this festival began back in 2003 with the dedication and passion of our very own Nathan Hicks and Ricardo, both previous executive directors of Urban Impactt and the Jazz Hall of Fame? Their dream has been alive for over two decades, and guess what? This is just the beginning! 🎉

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Great historical slide show of how U.S. Steel built the plant in Fairfield, laid out the neighborhood, built their hospital and how all the train tracks are connected from Red Mountain to Wenonah for the purpose of sending iron ore to Fairfield for processing.

Reflections-The Fairfield Works Of TCI The Fairfield Works was a planned integrated steel mill of The Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company a division of the United States Steel Corporation. The...

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This week's BT print edition features Jefferson County Commissioner Sheila Tyson who along with other area officials are active in numerous violence reduction initiatives. www.birminghamtimes.com