Presented by UAB’s Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, Eagles’ new series questions the Federal Drug Administration’s policies against blood donation based on sexual orientation, the stigma of queer blood and HIV/AIDS.
Jordan Eagles, American Carnage 6/14-II, 2018, Blood of gay man on PrEP, digital print, Dibond, 55 x 36 in.“Can You Save Superman? II,” an exhibition by artist Jordan Eagles that confronts the Federal Drug Administration’s blood donation policy against the LGBTQ community, will be on exhibition at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2021.
Eagles’ ongoing cycle of art and activism addresses the stigma of “queer” blood and challenges these policies.
Dr. Ben Carson announces $2.9 million federal grant to study civil rights ‘gateway’
Updated Dec 16, 2020;
Posted Dec 15, 2020
Dr. Ben Carson, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for the Trump administration, speaks in Linn Park on Dec. 15, 2020, about a federal grant of $2.9 million to study where to put a proposed Global Forum for Freedom and Justice campus in Birmingham. (Photo by Greg Garrison/AL.com)
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Dr. Ben Carson stood in front of Birmingham’s Linn Park Christmas tree on Tuesday morning and announced a $2.9 million federal grant to study the best location for a proposed Global Forum for Freedom and Justice campus in Birmingham that will be a “gateway to the civil rights trail.”
Johnson: Global Forum is back with $2.9 million federal grant to find a home in Birmingham, maybe
Updated Dec 11, 2020;
He’s back.
Remember Wayne Reynolds, the multi-millionaire who wanted to drop a $250 million glass beast called the Global Forum for Truth and Justice into Birmingham’s Civil Rights District?
He was essentially thwarted back in January (so it was thought) when the plans and renderings revealed at a posh luncheon downtown went down like a bad oyster. The primary objection to the Forum seemed to be the location. That it whatever
it is, exactly didn’t belong on sacred ground where the blood of little girls was spilled and children marching for the cause of equality in Birmingham and throughout the nation were confronted by police dogs and fire hoses.