Here are Alabama’s 2020 Entertainers of the Year
Updated Jan 05, 2021;
Posted Dec 31, 2020
Among AL.com s Entertainers of the Year in 2020 are (clockwise from top left) Charles Barkley, Madalen MIlls, the Sidewalk Film Center and Cinema and Ashley Monroe. (AL.com / Getty Images / Madalen Mills / Sidewalk Film Center and Cinema)
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Check out these Alabama people and movements that made significant cultural contributions locally, regionally and nationally in 2020, especially during a global pandemic that forced so many unforeseen changes in their respective industries and a social justice movement that informed and enhanced the pop culture conversation.
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Tamika Palmer, the mother of Breonna Taylor, right, listens to a news conference, Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, in Louisville, Ky. Family attorney Ben Crump is calling for the Kentucky attorney general to release the transcripts from the grand jury that decided not to charge any of the officers involved in the Black woman s death. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
By Erica Wright
The Birmingham Times
What’s left to say about 2020 except that it’s over. But what a year with the well-chronicled coronavirus pandemic that killed more than 300,000; racial unrest that created division in across many communities and a presidential election that was over until it wasn’t. And there was plenty of more to a year that goes down as one of the most memorable in recent history. Here’s some of what happened.
âPattern, Costume and Ornamentâ opened at the Birmingham Museum of Art on June 6 in the Bohourfoush Gallery. The works gathered in the exhibition were created by African and African-American artists and drawn from the Museum s permanent collection and from local private collections.
Ron Platt, The Hugh Kaul Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, organized the exhibition. âThese works are united by a visual presentation that emphasizes eye-catching arrangements, attention to detail and embellishment, and often both,â says Platt.
Functional objects, including a quilt and a Haitian vodou flag, mingle with contemporary painting, sculpture and photography. Each work invites the viewer to consider the diverse cultural influences on personal identity, reaching out to ancestry, tradition, and community for iconography and understanding.