How Birmingham Stacks Up to Other Southern Metros

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The overriding storyline of Birmingham in recent years is one of a rebounding community. There’s continued downtown development drawing accolades in national media. But it’s an incomplete picture without some comparison. We do a bit of economic comparison in this week’s Magic City Marketplace.

 

On Juneteenth, she celebrates the role quilts may have played in Underground Railroad

Edith Edmunds, who is 99 years old, the art of quilt making is inextricably linked to the Black struggle for freedom. That's why she plans to be sewing Thursday on Juneteenth.

Horror, a documentary, or kids, there’s only good choices at the movies this weekend

This weekend at the movies, you can see films about a raging virus and another about a lesson in childhood friendships. What's not to like?

Horror, a documentary, or kids, there’s only good choices at the movies this weekend

This weekend at the movies, you can see films about a raging virus and another about a lesson in childhood friendships. What's not to like?

Birmingham’s poet laureate releases ‘The Other Revival’ book for Juneteenth

Birmingham’s first poet laureate Salaam Green released a new book this week to coincide with the Juneteenth holiday. The Other Revival features poems inspired by descendants of Black enslaved people and white descendants of a central Alabama plantation. 

Photos: How torn pictures and trusted herbs create healing in Colombia

Conflict has sewn trauma in the western region of Colombia. Doctors Without Borders is working with local healers and health care professionals to come up with ways to help heal the psychic wounds.

Israel vows to intensify attacks after Iranian missile hits major hospital

Officials said they were still assessing "extensive damage" at a major hospital in southern Israel after it was struck by an Iranian missile early Thursday.

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