By Gillian Brooks | WBRC The Birmingham City Council has approved a federal funding package aimed at expanding childcare access and workforce development in four city neighborhoods: North Birmingham, Northside, Pratt and Smithfield. The Reinvest initiative is helping with the city’s Cradle to Career framework, which focuses on setting up children for success in Birmingham. […]
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Family now raising newborn after shocking loss at Birmingham Medical Center By SPEAKIN’ OUT NEWS A heartbreaking tragedy at a Birmingham hospital has left a newborn baby without parents and a grieving family searching for […]
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By SPEAKIN’ OUT NEWS EVERGREEN, Ala. — An Alabama dentist has been sentenced to prison after burning down his own dental office to collect insurance money while facing mounting debt. Conecuh County Circuit Judge Jack B. Weaver sentenced Douglas […]
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CORETTA & FLOYD COLLINS By Mia Watkins | For The Birmingham Times Live: Pelham Married: Oct. 4, 2003 Met: Floyd Collins knew that Coretta would be his wife as a matter of science, much like the lessons they were learning in the science summer program at Alabama A&M University, where they met when they were […]
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Special to The Times On Tuesday, March 17, audiences in Birmingham will have the chance to experience a powerful musical tradition when the American Spiritual Ensemble takes the stage at Jane Hollock Brock Recital Hall on the campus of Samford University. The 7:30 p.m. performance celebrates the enduring legacy of the American Negro spiritual, a […]
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