By Erica Wright
The Birmingham TimesÂ
Honoring Black History Month may look and feel different this year due to the global COVID-19 pandemic but there are still plenty of ways to safely celebrate the contributions of Black people.
Hereâs are some Birmingham-area BHM events.Â
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
Each year the BCRI educates and celebrates the history of the Civil Rights Movement. This year, the Black History Month 2021 theme is âBlack Family: Representation, Identity and Diversityâ, exploring the African diaspora and the spread of Black families across the United States.Â
The BCRI has a schedule of events planned this month and is hosting free education programs to K-12 students including:
RV Travel
January 29, 2021
By Nanci Dixon
Expand a National Parks bucket list by traveling the U.S. Civil Rights Trail. This has been an unprecedented year of social and political unrest in the United States. It is a year where the lessons learned should not be forgotten and one of the best ways to not forget is to learn more. There are more than 100 sites to visit on the Civil Rights Trail in 15 states, mainly across the South.
My husband is Black and grew up in Mississippi under Jim Crow segregation. Sometimes visiting the museums was just too much for him, and sometimes he would pause and reflect on the past versus the present. As we traveled and visited some of the sites, we did so with a heavy heart.
“Our world has dramatically changed since we were together last January. Since that time, we were forced to come face-to-face with our nation’s racist reality,” Bernice King, daughter of King and Coretta Scott King and CEO of The King Center in Atlanta, said at the service.
“As we commemorate the King holiday, I can hear his voice still reverberating through the annals of time that this may be our last chance to make the shift away from being power-centered to becoming more people-centered and from being utterly self-centered to becoming more other-centered,” Ms. King said. “I can hear him reminding us of the necessity of shifting from a reign of chaos toward a more just, humane, equitable, peaceful and sustainable world, which for him was the beloved community.”
I’ve said it at this blog again and again and again:
Topics that were once discussed only at “racist websites” now semi-regularly make their way into the mainstream alas, decades too late to matter…
She s linking to photoblog IconicPhotos, whose post on the famous picture of a Birmingham cop with a German Shepherd comes with a disclaimer that some opinions which follow may be upsetting to some readers.
I have written about both photos before. The reactions to London photo [
about a Hate-Thatcher demo in 1990] are muted; the
comments under the Alabama photo were virulent. It touched a nerve: some accused me of
Celebrate and Serve Virtually during Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Celebrate and Serve Virtually during Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Today, Monday, January 18, 2021, is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It is a federal holiday that is celebrated on the third Monday of January. This is a day to celebrate and honor the legacy of a phenomenal great civil rights leader’s life.
Many celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day with an MLK Day of Service. Even during a pandemic, there are ways for you to celebrate and to serve your communities.
Click here for the details on the Tuscaloosa Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference commemorates the observance of Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday with what has been coined as Unity Day.