Door to door campaign on vaccine safety (Source: WAVE 3 News) By WBRC Staff | April 12, 2021 at 10:03 AM CDT - Updated April 12 at 10:03 AM
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - Commissioner Sheila Tyson, Housing Authority of Birmingham District, and UAB’s Minority Health & Health Disparities Research Center are partnering to help decrease vaccine hesitancy.
The group will train canvassers to go door to door to hang door knockers informing people of vaccine safety. The canvassers will knock on 3,000 doors around the Smithfield area in hopes to see an increase in vaccinations.
Housing Authority of Birmingham is providing the workers through their Section Three program.
Former Ensley High School campus targeted for 244 apartments
Updated Mar 16, 2021;
Posted Mar 16, 2021
The old Ensley High campus will soon be home to hundreds of families under a planned $54.6 million new apartment and housing development.
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The Ensley High School campus in Birmingham has been abandoned since 2006, when the last students moved to Jackson-Olin High School.
The old Ensley High campus will soon be home to hundreds of families under a planned $54.6 million new apartment and housing development in partnership with the Housing Authority of Birmingham.
“Unfortunately, the high school itself cannot be salvaged,” said Tab Bullard, vice president of development for the Southeast region for Zimmerman Properties, which is overseeing development. In 2018, the main school building that dates to 1901 was gutted by fire, which caused an outpouring of nostalgia from former students.
Top 10 Religion stories of 2020: Covid disrupts church, Highlands hosts mass testing
Updated Dec 31, 2020;
Posted Dec 31, 2020
Sampey Memorial Baptist Church in Ramer, Ala., started a campaign this summer promoting Jesus 2020. (Photo by Ashley Remkus/AL.com)
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Organized religion, like many other bulwarks of the nation’s cultural establishment, was shaken to its core and transformed in 2020 by the COVID-19 pandemic.
That was Alabama’s top religion story of the year. Here are our top 10 religion stories in 2020:
COVID-19 disrupts church, forces worship online
The pandemic emptied sanctuaries and discontinued public in-person gathering for worship in March, even shutting down Easter Sunday. Churches then switched to online video services and many kept that focus through the end of the year as a safety precaution. Others returned by mid-summer and early fall with scaled-back, socially distanced in-person worship services. It was something the nation hadn’t
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.