Trump emerged from behind a French screen to a throng of cheering tourists – many of them fifth graders from Birmingham, Ala. – who had packed into the East Wing of the White House for a chance to catch a glimpse of the 45th president.
Category: Birmingham, AL
City Council: Birmingham Is a ‘Sanctuary City’
The leadership in Birmingham, Alabama, on Tuesday took a stand against President Donald Trump’s immigration orders – though the mayor and city council differed on terminology. Mayor William Bell declined to use the term “sanctuary city” during a press conference Tuesday morning, instead using the words “welcoming city.”
Attorney General Lynch: ‘We have always pushed forward’
Attorney General Loretta Lynch, in her final speech as head of the Justice Department, praised the work of the Obama administration to advance the dream of justice and said worries of difficult days ahead should be a call for action, not despair.
Obama adds Alabama civil rights area to Park Service
” President Barack Obama signed an order Thursday designating an historic civil rights district in Alabama as a national monument, placing several blocks of a city once rocked by racial violence on par with landmarks including the Grand Canyon. The National Park Service will now have oversight of a downtown section of Birmingham, Alabama, that was a focal point of civil rights struggles in 1963 against harsh enforcement of laws mandating racial segregation.
The Birmingham channel: Chaos is a friend of mine
Sunday jazz brunch in December at Five in Lakeview, featuring Tom Jambor on harmonica, Glen Butts on guitar and Scott Housey on bass. From Tom Jambor.