Word: birmingham
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...Born in Birmingham, Ala., on New Year's Eve, 1930, and raised in Los Angeles, Odetta Holmes had a big voice early on; she was schooled in opera from the age of 13. Appearing in a tour of the musical Finian's Rainbow in her late teens, she started to lend her classical and musical-stage training to the folk repertoire around 1950. Like Harry Belafonte, Leon Bibb and Makeba, Odetta played the swanker nightclubs before the big (mostly white) folk-music surge kicked in later in the decade. Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues, the 1956 Tradition LP with definitively...
...back in the dog days of summer 2007, the then just “Senator” Obama made a stop in my hometown of Birmingham, Ala. Flattered by the thought of a Democratic nominee spending even a second in the reddest of red states, I immediately knew that this guy was for real—just to provide a little scope, this was back when Obama was polling at 20 percent on a good day and Hillary and Edwards were duking it out at the top (oh, how much has changed...
...final stop before Super Tuesday in Boston, and then again at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. With each successive Obama-sighting, the crowds grew larger. The 80,000-person crowd that packed the bleachers at Invesco Field was a far cry from the small gathering in the Birmingham living room the summer before...
...college student. For one thing, the 6'2" safety at Florida State has NFL scouts drooling; for another, he's already earned his pre-med degree in two-and-a-half years. But his itinerary last weekend was particularly extraordinary. On Nov. 22, the Seminoles' safety jetted off to Birmingham, Ala., where he sat for a final interview for the Rhodes Scholarship, generally viewed as the country's most prestigious. After learning he was one of the 32 student-athletes in the country to earn the honor - and with it, two years of study at England's vaunted Oxford University...
...Scholarship is. They don't have any idea where you study, or what you study. It's not a bad thing; they've never been exposed to it. But the fact that they were really behind me and supported me meant a lot. On Thursday, before I traveled to Birmingham for my Rhodes interview, they got me in the huddle and they all put their hands on me and prayed for me, prayed for my safety and that I would let me personality shine through in the interview. During the day while getting ready for the interview, I was getting...