Tamika Palmer, the mother of Breonna Taylor, right, listens to a news conference, Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, in Louisville, Ky. Family attorney Ben Crump is calling for the Kentucky attorney general to release the transcripts from the grand jury that decided not to charge any of the officers involved in the Black woman s death. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
By Erica Wright
The Birmingham Times
What’s left to say about 2020 except that it’s over. But what a year with the well-chronicled coronavirus pandemic that killed more than 300,000; racial unrest that created division in across many communities and a presidential election that was over until it wasn’t. And there was plenty of more to a year that goes down as one of the most memorable in recent history. Here’s some of what happened.
By David Smith
Dec 18, 2020
HUD Secretary Dr. Ben Carson joins us to talk about the Grant to the Global Forum for Freedom and Justice and how the city of Birmingham could benefit.
By David Smith
Dec 18, 2020
HUD Secretary Dr. Ben Carson joins us to talk about the Grant to the Global Forum for Freedom and Justice and how the city of Birmingham could benefit.
By David Smith
Dec 18, 2020
HUD Secretary Dr. Ben Carson joins us to talk about the Grant to the Global Forum for Freedom and Justice and how the city of Birmingham could benefit.
By Erica Wright
The Birmingham Times
Dr. Ben Carson, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, this week announced a $2.9 million federal grant to fund a feasibility study to determine possible locations in Birmingham for a Global Forum for Freedom and Justice Center.
The Global Forum for Freedom and Justice will be a hub where visitors from around the world can share ideas and Birmingham’s Civil Rights history, establish a leadership training institute and attract speakers from across the globe to discuss human and civil rights.
Carson said the grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration would go toward a feasibility study to help the Global Forum become an “anchor institution” for tech and leadership skills for the modern era and Birmingham is an ideal site.