Birmingham
Birmingham, Ala. – Birmingham’s metro area is among 31 regions across the country named today as a federal Tech Hub, competing successfully under a new program that could ultimately inject $75 million into the local economy. The designation followed a highly competitive process with nearly 200 applications nationwide, and it recognizes the innovation happening in the […]
The BBC reported back in February that Black Sabbath: The Ballet would premiere in Birmingham, UK in September 2023. It kicked off on September 23rd at Birmingham Hippodrome. The brainchild of Birmingham Royal Ballet director Carlos Acosta and the band’s Tony Iommi, the ballet features eight Black Sabbath tracks plus new music inspired by them. […]
HUD Announces $25 Million Loan Guarantee for Birmingham, AL Loan for Black, Indigenous, People of Color Fund WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awarded the City of Birmingham, Alabama a $25.2 million loan fund under its loan guarantee program for the Community Development Block Grant Program, Section 108. The […]
On Sept. 15, 1963 the Ku Klux Klan bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. This week, the city is remembering one of the darkest chapters in civil rights history. Lynsey Weatherspoon for NPR hide caption toggle caption Lynsey Weatherspoon for NPR On Sept. 15, 1963 the Ku Klux Klan bombed the 16th […]
This story is part of AL.com’s “1963 Season of Change” series. See more coverage here. This week in Alabama history marks a momentous shift: For the first time, Black students attended previously all-white schools in Birmingham, Mobile, Huntsville and Tuskegee. School desegregation, ordered by a judge in several school districts for the first week of […]
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, will speak in Alabama next month at an event marking the 60th anniversary of a church bombing that killed four girls in 1963. Jackson will give the keynote address at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, […]
On Friday, Aug. 4, U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Alabama, will welcome the Congressional Black Caucus Institute (CBCI) and Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Chairman Steven Horsford (D-Nevada) to Birmingham, Alabama as part of the CBCI’s “Democracy For The People” nationwide tour. The CBCI will conduct a mobilizer training session from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. to […]
Birmingham civil rights icons share local history with Black journalists: ‘For the joy of us’ AL.com Source link
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Unlike the sprawling steel-and-glass buildings that often house American ballet companies, Birmingham Royal Ballet’s studios fill a red-brick warehouse down a narrow street next to the company’s home theater, the Hippodrome. There artists create world-class ballet for audiences who might not otherwise see it; the city has historically been known more for manufacturing and heavy […]