How Businesswoman Valerie Thomas Fell in Love with the ‘Magic’ of Birmingham

Scholar and award-winning author Imani Perry will return to Alabama in February for a reading and discussion. Pen Birmingham will host its final Birmingham Reads Project lecture with Perry on Wednesday Feb. 1 from 6-8 p.m. in Brown Hall at Miles College (5500 Myron Massey Blvd., Fairfield). The scholar and...

The Birmingham African American Genealogy Group (BAAGG) will host its 2023 Black Heritage Fair on Feb. 4 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Linn-Henley Research Library in downtown Birmingham. This year’s edition will feature Tafeni English, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Alabama state office and...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Memphis authorities released video footage Friday showing Tyre Nichols being beaten by police officers who held the Black motorist down and repeatedly struck him with their fists, boots and batons as he screamed for his mother and pleaded, “’I’m just trying to go home.”

Just outside of Birmingham, in the community of Clay, sits a home with a neatly groomed lawn that is quiet on the outside but the hub of several small businesses on the inside. The enterprise comes from the vision of Hueytown native and entrepreneur Nykki Houston, 42, a natural nail...