1886:
Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black was born in Wilcox County.
1983:
Redmont Hotel was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
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Joe Minter’s The Slave Ship. André Natta/The Terminal
This is one of the many pieces created by Joe Minter that will be discussed during the last installment of Vulcan Park’s Collective Perspectives series beginning with cocktails and socializing at 5 p.m. in their visitors center. This calendar listing provides additional information about Emily Hannah’s presentation about [...]

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[ February 28, 2008; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Come on down! Downtown that is to the 2nd Game Show Night Thursday at Java & Jams. It’s exactly how it sounds — an evening of playing live versions of old-school game shows where everyone’s a contestant. Java & Jams is located at 321 20th St. North. Get more information and a description of the [...]

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[ March 15, 2008; 7:30 pm; ] The Gala is a fund raiser for the Rotaract Club of Birmingham’s signature service project Ready 2 Read. You are invited to help them place libraries in every 2nd grade classroom in the Birmingham City school system by dancing the night away on the stage of the historic Alabama Theatre.

The evening will feature performances from [...]

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The Alabama Republican Party wasted no time in sharing their response to last night’s report on CBS’ 60 Minutes about allegations that former governor Don Siegelman’s prosecution was politically motivated (even though we weren’t necessarily that fast in posting these links ourselves - we’re still upgrading the site). Check out Wade on Birmingham’s recent post [...]

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The mayor’s office has already announced the next 10/30 Summit dealing with crime in the city of Birmingham. This time it will be a women’s only crowd at Fair Park Arena on Leap Year Day, February 29, beginning at 6 p.m.
Mayor Langford has issued his call to African-American women in the City of Birmingham on [...]

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Well, it’s not because it was a slow news day - that’s for sure! We were beginning to make some changes to the look and feel of the site. If you’re reading this from the front page, you’ve already got a taste of what I’m talking about and there are more throughout Birmingham’s hub.
We’ll be [...]

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