The Birmingham Times
Birmingham’s Linn Park, from the now defunct City Stages music festival to the recently removed Confederate monument, has seen its share of city history.
The seven-acre park that separates Birmingham City Hall and the Jefferson County Courthouse in downtown also may also have been the site of the county’s first lynching, according to a local grass-roots coalition that documents racial terror.
The Jefferson County Memorial Project (JCMP), composed of over 40 community partners, researches the untold history of lynching in the county and the historical links among slavery, Jim Crow and present-day mass incarceration.
Their latest report, “Contested Terrain: A Historical Walk Through Birmingham’s Linn Park” was written by JCMP Fellows, a group of 20 college and graduate students from Birmingham-area colleges: Jefferson State Community College, Samford University, Birmingham-Southern College and the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).
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Walmart identified 16 Birmingham metro area locations where staffing and other resources will be allocated to provide vaccinations as early as this Friday.
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The City of Birmingham has been notified that it will receive $6,272,092 from the federal government through the Emergency Rental Assistance program to assist households that are unable to pay rent and utilities due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Mayor Randall L. Woodfin has announced.
“This is another tool for the city to help our residents as they deal with the economic impact on their lives due to the pandemic,” Woodfin said. “I made this a priority for our team to secure these funds once they were made available by the U.S. Treasury Department. We moved swiftly to work closely with our partners in Washington, particularly U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell of Alabama’s Seventh District.”
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With growing professional relationships and a project (A Green Summer Work Experience 2020) complete in Birmingham, the team at the National Wildlife Federation is building on the commitment to deliver value that underpins economic growth in 2021.
“With our partners and a two-year commitment, we identified four areas of focus for our work: climate-induced flooding, water (and sewage), infrastructure, and subsequently, public health,” said Simone Lightfoot, national director of urban initiatives and environmental justice for the National Wildlife Federation. “Speaking of health, I would be remiss if I did not express well wishes to Mayor Woodfin as he recovers from COVID pneumonia. The Mayor, Councilor Hilliard, and community leaders are the intersections between policy, science, systems, and solutions. We are grateful to align with such passionate and prominent partners.”