Why We Should All Be Concerned
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has quietly issued new guidance that dramatically expands the use of criminal records in public housing decisions.
A Dangerous Step Backward: HUD’s New Criminal-Record Guidance Threatens Housing Stability and Community Safety
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has quietly issued new guidance that dramatically expands the use of criminal records in public housing decisions.
We’re Living in Unprecedented Times
I know many of you already feel it, especially those of us with historical perspective—but we are living through something we’ve never seen before.
16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
On this day, September 15, 1963, as I walked home from Sunday school, I learned that the 16th Street Baptist Church had been bombed. Birmingham still sits in this position as the ground zero for the changes that were made after the bombing. We still think about the four little girls who were lost forever.
Bob Dickerson named Southern Region’s Supporting Partner of the Year!
Congrats, Bob Dickerson (Executive Director) of Birmingham Business Resource Center, on being named the Southern Region’s Supporting Partner of the Year!
Robert Dickerson: Gun Violence Plagues America
This is an Opinion Gun violence plagues us. When I started to write this article, fresh in the headlines were the shooting in Buffalo, where a racist gunned down 10 innocent Black people who were shopping and Texas, where 19 children were gunned down. Since the school shooting in Uvalde, over 30 mass shootings have […]
A Bittersweet Celebration
If my dad was still living, we’d be celebrating the fact that Major League Baseball announced that the Negro League statistics are now officially part of the official records. That’s right, the Washington Post, in an article posted on December 16, 2020, reported on this monumental change. Dad would remind me of how good Josh […]
The American Dream, deferred.
The economic realities facing America’s middle class should concern us all. The American Dream, economic prosperity, a career that allows you to support a family, appreciation from employers for service and loyalty, a chance to participate in the success to which you contributed. That dream is not as vivid as it was 50 years ago. […]
NAACP: The Trailblazer Award
I want to thank the Birmingham Branch of the NAACP for honoring me with the Trailblazer Award last week. I am honored to receive this award, and I want to take this moment to convey some of the thoughts that came to mind as I stood there receiving that fantastic piece of crystal. I’ve long […]
Trump is Leaving, but Trumpism is Still Here
To quote Dr. Martin Luther King, “we have some difficult days ahead”. Yes, we just defeated Trump and elected Biden but, we didn’t defeat Trumpism. We still have political leaders in influential positions who backed Trump’s every move. Who made it okay for our leader to kowtow to autocrats, threaten our allies, promote racism, and […]