Birmingham Entrepreneurs Featured in Black Enterprise Magazine
Pick up an October 2011 issue of Black Enterprise Magazine, flip to page 57, and you will run across a few familiar faces. Birmingham entrepreneurial couple and creators of the Magic City BlackExpo,...
NAACP Hosts Townhall Meeting on “Police Matters”
The NAACP will host a townhall meeting and a public hearing Thursday in light of recent incidents with the Birmingham Police Department.Hezekiah Jackson, IV, president of the Metro Birmingham Branch NAACP said the...
New Social Media Group Offers Free Workshops, Memberships
(Birmingham, Ala.) March 1, 2011 — With more questions than ever about the phenomenon of social media, a new nonprofit group in Birmingham seeks to help businesses and community organizations find their way...
Business Network to Give $10,000, Mentoring, Local Businesses
(Birmingham, AL) Jan. 27, 2011 – TheCASHFLOW and its non-profit foundation, 100 Urban Entrepreneurs, are headed to Birmingham to offer $10,000 and a business network to urban residents with good business ideas that...
UNCF Birmingham Announces 2011 Fundraising Team
Funding Program Supports Nearly 300 Alabama College Students
BIRMINGHAM, AL (January 20, 2011) – The Alabama-Mississippi Area Office of UNCF - United Negro College Fund – the nation’s oldest and most successful minority education...
Canton Jones Debuts New Gospel Album in Free Benefit Concert
(Birmingham, AL) – Grammy-, Stellar- and Dove-nominated Christian songwriter and producer Canton Jones is the featured headliner in a free Jan. 29 concert at Boutwell Auditorium to celebrate children cancer survivors and to...
BABJ Newsmaker: A Conversation with Shirley Sherrod
(Press Release from BABJ - Birmingham, AL) Birmingham journalists’ group brings subject of one of the year’s most controversial news stories to town for a conversation with the public. The Birmingham Association of...
Council Appoints Birmingham YP Austin to Vacancy
The newest face among Birmingham City leadership is now its youngest. A majority of City Councilors voted to appoint 29-year-old Johnathan F. Austin to fill the vacant District 5 seat of William Bell.
It...
Downtown Birmingham Condos Still Selling, But Slowly
Amid news of foreclosures, tightening credit and housing sale slumps, Downtown residential developers are still building and people are still renting, though not buying as much, according to speakers at the ONB monthly...
Officials Celebrate Groundbreaking of New Southside Marriott
Officials with the City of Birmingham and Operation New Birmingham joined in the groundbreaking ceremony for a new 129-room Residence Inn by Marriott at the corner of 20th Street and 8th Court South...
