2+ hour, 34+ min ago (476+ words) BUTNER, N.C. " H. Rap Brown, one of the most vocal leaders of the Black Power movement, has died in a prison hospital while serving a life sentence for the killing of a Georgia sheriff's deputy. He was 82. Brown " who later in life changed his name to Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin " died Sunday at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina, his widow, Karima Al-Amin, said Monday. Like other more militant Black leaders and organizers during the racial upheaval of the late 1960s and early 1970s, Brown decried heavy-handed policing in Black communities. He once stated that violence was "as American as cherry pie." "Violence is a part of America's culture," he said during a 1967 news conference. " America taught the black people to be violent. We will use that violence to rid ourselves of oppression, if necessary. We will be free by any means necessary....

1+ day, 2+ hour ago (583+ words) 07By Roy S. Johnson | [email protected] Funeral arrangements for Melva Langford, wife of the late former Fairfield and Birmingham mayor Larry Langford, have been finalized.The native of the Woodward neighborhood in Bessemer passed away on Thursday evening following a long illness, her family confirmed. She was 83. Public visitation will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 25 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at St. Mary's Catholic Church. It is located at 6101 DR. Martin Luther King Dr. in Fairfield. A Links ceremony will occur at 5:30 p.m., with Ivy Beyond the Wall following immediately after. The funeral mass will be held on Wednesday, Nov. 26. at 11 a.m., also at St. Mary's. Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin ordered flags at city hall to be flown at half-staff. "Anyone who ever met Melva Langford knew her as a gracious, caring woman who loved her community," Woodfin said. "She was a dedicated public servant in every way…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago (325+ words) By Barnett Wright | The Birmingham Times Monique Grier, who has been director of Jefferson County's G. Ross Bell Youth Detention Center since October 2017, announced last week that she will resign. "I want to thank the commission for the opportunity and for the support over these last eight years, I've enjoyed working here," Grier told Jefferson County Commissioners during a committee meeting. "I've enjoyed working with the children." Grier said that she will take a job in metro Atlanta which she described as "managing director", but it won't be in government. "I'll be still doing the same type of work," she said after the committee meeting. "I'll be working reentry services, community housing " helping families, serving those that continue to be disenfranchised, but not on the criminal justice side." The departing director said she's leaving the Youth Detention Center in a good…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago (244+ words) By Shannon Thomason | UAB News Choirs from Helena, Calera, Springville, Ramsay and John Carroll Catholic high schools will perform with UAB choirs and the UAB Trumpet Ensemble and Flute Ensemble.Hear the loveliest sounds of the season when local high school choirs join University of Alabama at Birmingham choirs Monday, Dec. 1, for Christmas at the Alys. This annual concert celebration is a festive performance of traditional holiday favorites and standard choral classics presented by the'College of Arts and Sciences'Department of Music. Selections will be presented from various points inside the hall, so the audience will be surrounded by sound.'All 200 voices will join in singing "Carol of the Bells" and "O Holy Night." The 7 p.m. performance is in UABs'Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center. Tickets are $15; free for students and senior citizens. For tickets, call 205-975-2787 or visit'AlysStephens.org. This community-wide celebration of…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago (198+ words) The City of Birmingham, in partnership with One Roof, will host The State of Homelessness: Redefining Community on Monday, Dec. 1. This first-of-its-kind symposium will bring together faith leaders, nonprofits, local businesses, civic partners, and public-sector leaders for a united conversation about Birmingham's homelessness response and the shared path forward. The free, public event will take place at 1 p.m. at Regions Field, located at 1401 First Ave. South. "Every resident deserves safe, stable housing," said Alanah Melton, director of unhoused strategy for the City of Birmingham. "This symposium is about mobilizing our collective power " government, businesses, faith communities, nonprofits, and neighbors " to ensure we meet that responsibility." "There is no problem too big for a city that has already changed the world," said Mayor Randall L. Woodfin. "We can do it again " because every person in Birmingham deserves a brighter future." The symposium will…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago (373+ words) By Drew Taylor | WIAT A 15-year-old boy who grew up in the Birmingham suburbs is receiving critical attention for his star-making turn as part of the ensemble cast being terrorized by one of the more iconic cinematic monsters of the last decade. Blake Cameron James has been acting ever since he was a student at Berry Middle School in Hoover, but it was not until this year that his profile considerably rose portraying Will Hanlon in the HBO series "IT: Welcome to Derry," a spinoff of the horror series "IT" featuring the killer extraterrestrial clown, Pennywise. Premiering on Oct. 26, "IT: Welcome to Derry" quickly became one of the most watched debut TV shows on HBO Max, with 5.7 million people watching the season premiere. In the show, James plays Hanlon, a precocious student obsessed with science whose family moves to the…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago (323+ words) Scott has donated more than $700 million to over a dozen HBCUs since the start of the current school year, including $38 million to Alabama A&M in Huntsville. Just this month, she committed $63 million each to Prairie View A&M University'in Texas and'North Carolina A&T State University, as well as $50 million to'Bowie State University'in Maryland,'Norfolk State University'in Virginia and'Winston-Salem State University'in North Carolina. In September, Scott also gave'$70 million to the United Negro College Fund'for a pooled endowment that will provide $10 million to each of UNCF's 37 member HBCUs, one of the largest collective boosts to Black colleges in decades. The fall gifts follow Scott's round of donations in 2020, when she donated about $560 million to 23 HBCUs, with many institutions, like Lincoln University, calling the unrestricted funds "transformative." The donations are typically unrestricted, which means university administrators can allocate funding based…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago (1773+ words) Senior Public Safety Manager UM is an EO Institution Property Address: 408 15th Street Southwest, Birmingham, Alabama 35211 TO: WILLIAM JEFFERSON WYNN, III, and NANCY GAY COTTON, as heirs of CARLTON TERRELL WYNN; J.T. SMALLWOOD, JEFFERSON COUNTY TAX COLLECTOR; JEFFERSON COUNTY, ALABAMA; CITY OF BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA; and any and all other unknown heirs, claimants or interested parties claiming any right, title, estate, lien, or interest in the real estate described herein, TAKE NOTICE that on September 22, 2025, the Birmingham Land Bank Authority filed the above-styled Complaint, and the Land Bank asserts that it has recorded notice of a pending quiet title and foreclosure action in the Probate Court of Jefferson County, Alabama concerning the rights and/or interests in the following real property: Property Address: 2313 26th Street North, Birmingham, Alabama 35234 Property Address: 1637 19th Street Southwest, Birmingham, Alabama 35211 Legal Description: Lot 19, Block 8, according to the Survey of West…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago (625+ words) By Shauna Stuart | For The Birmingham Times When Endea Owens" tour with her band, The Cookout, took the stage at the University of Alabama at Birmingham"s (UAB"s) Alys Stephens Center in early October, the band got some emergency help from local musicians. Less than two hours before the concert, Owens " the Emmy and Grammy award-winning bandleader, composer, and bassist for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert " needed a different bass from the instrument UAB rented for the show. Thanks to quick thinking from musicians headed to the concert that evening, Owens ended up playing the bass that belongs to Bernard McQueen, a member of the Daniel Jos" Carr Quartet and an instructor at the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame. So, Kidd reached out to one of his mentors: McQueen. McQueen and his wife, Thelma, had just left Longhorn Steakhouse…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago (215+ words) By Sym Posey | The Birmingham Times Cahaba Medical Care has expanded its West End Health Center to increase capacity, reduce wait times, serve 600 more patients each month, and give families in the community faster access to comprehensive primary care. A ribbon cutting was held at the center on Wednesday with members of the Cahaba medical team, neighborhood officers, city officials and residents. The newly unveiled 800-square-foot addition includes four state-of-the-art exam rooms, increasing the center's annual patient capacity by 26 percent and enables up to 30 additional patient visits per day. For years, Cahaba Medical Care's West End Health Center has operated at full capacity, reflecting a need for the additional exam rooms and increased capacity. "This expansion allows us to continue that work of investing in the health and future of this community," Waites said. "We're growing so families can receive…...