The Case for Economic Diversity: The New Millenium’s Civil Rights Issue
Black political power turned into economic power in Atlanta. The same can't be said of Birmingham, where diversity is fast becoming not just a metter of race, but ethnicity and gender as well.
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The Hope VI Experiment
in 2000, the Birmingham Housing Authority embarked on an experiment that would raze the Metropolitan Gardens public housing project to the ground and seed a new kind of neighborhood using a $35 million federal...
East Meets West End
Princeton Baptist Medical Center has invested thousands of dollars renovating dilapidated homes in a West End neighborhood. Its investment and the arrival of Filipino nurses are creating interesting results. STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY...
Birmingham’s New Political Course
Birmingham is like a ship without a rudder. It turns here then plows through choppy waters there, but it seems headed in no particular direction.
In 1992, the City Council adopted what was then called...
Pieces of A Puzzle
Cathy Sloss-Crenshaw is standing with her back to what just might be the most breathtaking view of Birmingham in the City.
Anniston's mayor, city councilmen and business owners have gathered at Sloss Real Estate...
Birmingham Rolls Out the Red Carpet for Hollywood
The relationship between Hollywood and the South has long been tense. Since the days of the first “talkies,” the South has supplied its West Coast sister with a deep well of material and...
