Birmingham Times
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Aug- 2019 -1 August
Jayla Groom Penned Book After Seeing Her Mom’s ‘Wanted’ Mugshot on Crimestoppers
BIRMINGHAM TIMES — Groom, from Hueytown and a rising junior at the University of Alabama (UA), has penned a book about her experiences—“I AM: How to Own Your Truth and Go…
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1 August
Mother and 7 Year-Old Daughter Encourage Girls to See Beauty; not Differences
BIRMINGHAM TIMES — Dee Edwards remembers her daughter Aubrey coming home from school one day upset that she didn’t look like her friends. The girl questioned things like the color of…
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Jul- 2019 -31 July
City Council Approves Mayor’s $451M Budget for FY20
BIRMINGHAM TIMES — More than two months after Mayor Randall Woodfin presented his fiscal 2020 budget and three weeks after the fiscal year began July 1, the Birmingham City Council voted…
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30 July
City Students on the ‘Life-Changing’ Experience of the Birmingham Promise
BIRMINGHAM TIMES — Over the past few weeks, there has been an extensive debate about the merits of the Birmingham Promise Initiative, a new program proposed by Mayor Randall Woodfin. The…
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30 July
BCRI Youth Tour Alabama African American Heritage Sites
BIRMINGHAM TIMES — Twenty students in the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute’s (BCRI) Legacy Youth Leadership Program left Tuesday, July 16 for a three-day tour of historical sites critical to the…
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29 July
What Actor Joe Pesci Taught Birmingham-Native Kat Files About Movie Sets
BIRMINGHAM TIMES — Files was on set as a featured background actress for the film “The Irishman,” scheduled for theatrical release in fall 2019; it is directed by Martin Scorsese and…
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29 July
Kim Scott: From Birmingham to Top of Billboard Charts
BIRMINGHAM TIMES — When you sit down to talk to musician Kim Scott, two things stand out: a 100-watt smile that spreads across her face effortlessly, and an often and…
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28 July
America’s Got Talent’s Brian King Joseph To Support United Abilities on Aug. 3
BIRMINGHAM TIMES — No one captured more hearts and inspired the judges and audience of America’s Got Talent than electric violinist Brian King Joseph during Season 13 of the show in…
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28 July
Shaheed and DJ Supreme: From the Local Stage to Global Ambition
BIRMINGHAM TIMES — If it’s Saturday night in Birmingham, that usually means it’s showtime somewhere on the city’s music scene for hip-hop artists Shaheed and DJ Supreme. After nearly two decades…
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28 July
Brandy Williams Rebounded From Hurricane Katrina To Bring Taste of NOLA to Birmingham
BIRMINGHAM TIMES — At age 18, two weeks into her freshman year at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL), New Orleans, La., native Brandy Williams’s life changed forever—when Hurricane Katrina…
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