Bizarre: The Coffee Bar is an Alabama original fit for the times
By Susan Swagler
Bizarre: The Coffee Bar serves up more than java. (Brittany Dunn / Alabama NewsCenter)
Bizarre: The Coffee Bar is a coffee bar by day and a bar bar at night, but this unusual place also is an all-day incubator for several minority-owned local businesses. The café, which serves breakfast, lunch and dinner (most nights), has become a hub in Birmingham’s Black business community, offering space for multiple vendors to attract attention and, in turn, build their own businesses.
Bizarre was started in 2018 by Jennifer Butler and Mia Perryman, friends who met 15 years earlier at Jefferson State Community College. In October 2019, they partnered with Will Harvill, who has since become the face of the business as well as “the general manager, head bartender, custodian, party promoter, DJ, and everything else involved with Bizarre: The Coffee Bar.”
(RNS) Los Angeles pastor Stephen “Cue” Jn-Marie is quick to point out the movement for Black lives and Black Lives Matter has been going on for eight years, but he believes it was “an act of God” that transformed it last year into the largest social movement in U.S. and world history.
“Who can articulate that, but a faith leader?” he added.
For Jn-Marie, who founded the Church Without Walls in Skid Row, the Black Lives Matter movement is valid without faith leaders but, he said, clergy help “people see God’s heart for the movement.”
One year ago, the death of George Floyd under the knee of a police officer galvanized the nation and eventually much of the world into months of historic protests against police brutality and systemic racism and in support of Black lives. Clergy were often front and center in these protests and their clarion call not only to politicians but also to religious leaders sparked a racial reckoning within churches, synagogues and m
Luke Rawalai
20 May, 2021, 1:30 pm
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Personal protective equipment (PPE), reproductive health kits and medical supplies given by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Pacific to Government is expected to boost efforts to combat COVID-19.
A statement from the UNFPA said the supplies would ensure continuity of essential reproductive health response services.
“In addition to the PPE, UNFPA Pacific also supplied the ministry with dignity kits for women and girls impacted by COVID-19, who required support with menstrual hygiene management, as well as dignity kits for women with disabilities.
Press Release – United Nations Honiara The UN, through the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), launched a programme Wednesday on Gender Responsive Peacebuilding in Extractive Industries in Isabel Province. The programme …
Honiara – The UN, through the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), launched a programme Wednesday on Gender Responsive Peacebuilding in Extractive Industries in Isabel Province.
The programme will operate under three broad outcome areas: creating an enabling environment to support the human rights of women and the participation of women in community-based peacebuilding processes; ensuring women are able to drive change within communities via peacebuilding dialogues; and coordinating between civil society organisations and governments to improve the quality of service provision to women facing violations as a result of conflict dynamics betw
Faith Leaders Highlight How the American Jobs Plan Invests in U.S. Communities
May 7, 2021, 9:00 am
“When we create jobs that pay living wages, lay the foundation for healthy communities, and invest in our public resources with an eye toward equity and justice for all, we are treating our neighbors with dignity.” the Rev. Jennifer Butler, CEO of Faith in Public Life Action, on the American Jobs Plan
Faith leaders, through their connections with their communities and congregations, know firsthand that for the United States to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, policymakers cannot simply address its immediate effects; they must work to build a stronger economy and social fabric in order to address the structural issues that existed before the crisis. That is why Faith in Public Life Action’s network of 50,000 faith leaders, as well as other faith leaders across the country, are advocating for Congress to enact the American Jobs Plan which the Rev. Butler calls “an oppo