Word: birmingham
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...Wall Street Journal editor, she a novelist. Their treasury of more than 400 epistles renders a more definitive portrait of America's past 99 years than would all the centennial books laid decade to decade. Some entries are moving (Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 letter from a Birmingham, Ala., jail), some comical (fugitive Clyde Barrow's 1934 note to Henry Ford, praising his "dandy" V8 getaway car). They add up to an exceptional bedside companion...
FRIDAY Catch William Wegman's "Fashion Photographs" show at the Birmingham Museum of Art. This time it's Weimaraners in Gucci, Dolce & Gabbana and Jean Paul Gaultier. Highlight: the doggie bikini...
Colombia visits Alabama-Birmingham this Friday afternoon and then will stay to face Mississippi State on Sunday at noon...
Growing up in segregated Birmingham, she recalls hardly knowing that white people existed. Then, in 1963, her friend Denise McNair was killed in the church bombing that helped ignite the civil rights movement. The family moved out of Alabama, eventually relocating to Denver. But living under Jim Crow instilled in Rice an astonishing resilience. "I came out of that not bitter but with a sense of entitlement," she says, "to do whatever I wanted to do, to be whoever I wanted...
Indeed, the efforts of co-captains Larson and Beth Zotter helped propel the Crimson to victory last weekend. Both had unassisted goals during the Crimson's match against Alabama-Birmingham and helped the freshman players get on their feet with several assists during the weekend...