AHF Recognizes Women’s History Month During March, we will feature a series of blog posts focusing on Women’s History Month. Please join us in the discussion and comment with your own opinions and tales. By Billie Jean Young, AHF board member A woman is like a field of wild flowers growing inside of barbed wire. [...]
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AHF Recognizes Women’s History Month During March, we will feature a series of blog posts focusing on Women’s History Month. Please join us in the discussion and comment with your own opinions and tales. The woman came down from a field of red clay, And her cohorts were teeming with cotton and hay; And the [...]
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AHF Recognizes Women’s History Month During March, we will feature a series of blog posts focusing on Women’s History Month. Please join us in the discussion and comment with your own opinions and tales. As February—Black History Month—turns to March—Women’s History Month—it’s worth noting that three women played key roles in recording the African-American experience [...]
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AHF Recognizes Black History Month During February, we will feature a series of blog posts focusing on Black History Month. Please join us in the discussion and comment with your own opinions and tales. Written by Jennifer Dome, AHF’s public relations and publications manager “I like to believe that the negative extremes of Birmingham’s past [...]
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AHF Recognizes Black History Month During February, we will feature a series of blog posts focusing on Black History Month. Please join us in the discussion and comment with your own opinions and tales. Written by Bob Stewart, AHF’s executive director I was fortunate to finish my k-12 education in Tuscaloosa as desegregation was well [...]
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AHF Recognizes Black History Month During February, we will feature a series of blog posts focusing on Black History Month. Please join us in the discussion and comment with your own opinions and tales. Written by blogger Dominique Linchet, Ph.D., AHF’s grants director As a long-time educator and as I reflect upon what it means [...]
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AHF Recognizes Black History Month During February, we will feature a series of blog posts focusing on Black History Month. Please join us in the discussion and comment with your own opinions and tales. Written by guest blogger, Cynthia Martin, AHF’s program and development assistant I still recall my first awareness of an African-American person [...]
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Three weeks have passed since I joined AHF as its new grants director and I am amazed with the number and range of people I have already had a chance to meet, as well as with the variety of activities and events I have taken part in. Every day has been different and new. I [...]
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One of my goals for 2011 is to get to know Alabama a little better. I have called this great place home for four years now, but I must admit, there’s still so much I want to see! My first year here, friends and I visited several must-sees: Vulcan Park, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, [...]
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Driving into Monroeville, Ala., is a little like stepping back in time. The grand courthouse that sits in the center of the town’s square is so beautiful, and so picturesque, it’s no wonder Hollywood came here when preparing to film “To Kill a Mockingbird” to see Harper Lee’s inspiration for themselves. The courtroom inside the [...]
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