The Birmingham Times Two days after the city’s annual lighting of the Christmas tree ceremony on Sunday night in Linn Park and one week after a “first of its kind” symposium on homelessness that drew 25 different service providers, the City of Birmingham on Tuesday announced that it had removed homeless people who had been […]
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By Nathan Watson | BhamNow i3 Academy, a tuition-free public charter school network in Birmingham, recently announced a new partnership with the A.G. Gaston Business Institute to implement its successful START SMART Youth Entrepreneurship program in i3 classrooms. In the rapidly changing world of side-hustles and other supplementary income streams, strong entrepreneurial skills are becoming more […]
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By Sym Posey | The Birmingham Times Unsung hero and often forgotten Birmingham Industrial League baseball legend Oscar “Butler” Williams was remembered and celebrated on Tuesday by the Negro Southern League Museum (NSLM) in partnership with District 2 Jefferson County Commissioner Sheila Tyson. Every year the Center for Negro League Baseball Research (CNLBR) and NSLM present […]
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BY JE’DON HOLLOWAY-TALLEY | Special to the Birmingham Times ISAAC & JASMINE JONES Live: Leeds Married: Nov. 20, 2008 Met: April 2004, at a friend’s house in East Lake. Jasmine said her next-door neighbor’s house was the place to hang out and one evening when she dropped by Isaac was there playing basketball with the […]
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Baltimore Collegiate faces possible closure in 2026 as the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners prepares to vote on its charter renewal. Supporters argue the all-boys school boosts academic success and disrupts the school-to-prison pipeline for Baltimore’s Black boys.
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