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UA System trustees approve renaming George Wallace Building at UAB Share Updated: 11:57 AM CST Feb 8, 2021 WVTM 13 Digital Share Updated: 11:57 AM CST Feb 8, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript on behalf of our working group. We appreciate this opportunity to update the board of trustees on the careful research we've undertaken since June off this year. So we're over, ah, half a year of work meeting almost every Wednesday of week, based upon consultation with experts and through our own extensive investigation. Working group review The historical rec...

Reply(1) The University of Alabama Board of Trustees has renamed the Wallace Building at UAB. (Michael Seale/Patch) BIRMINGHAM, AL — The University of Alabama system Board of Trustees voted Friday to rename a building at the University of Alabama at Birmingham that was named for former governor George C. Wallace. Wallace was the center of attention nationwide during the Civil Rights Era in Alabama, and famously stood in the doorway of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama, a symbolic attempt to block two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from enrolling at the school. Th...

The selected finalists are: Bradford For Everyone ambassadors, Grub from the Hub and Sam Robinson. The team of ambassadors at Bradford For Everyone hail from Haworth to Holmewood, have religious beliefs and faiths or none, they are people with and without disabilities, people of different ethnicities and different genders and sexualities. In the past two years it has existed, the project has created safe spaces, worked in the voluntary and community sector to fund innovative projects and been the voice of Bradford in major conventions such as ‘The People’s Powerhouse’ and as part ...

Responses to and analyses of the Jan. 6 seditious attack on the nation’s capital by a mob of Donald Trump’s supporters have been wide ranging. Of particular significance has been the outcry over the disparity between the police response to the pro-Trump rioters and their response to the largely peaceful Black Lives Matter protests this past summer. One can’t escape the racial overtones laid ...

Monday 28th December, 2020 Stinking landfills and waste imports are likely to earn Sri Lanka, which was once known as ‘the Granary of the East’, the epithet of ‘Garbage Dump of the East’. An investigation is reportedly underway into the importation of 28 shipping containers of agricultural waste from Ukraine. The waste arrived here, the other day, in the guise of a consignment of coriander seeds. One of the companies that imported the foreign garbage has claimed that it has been cheated; it says it ordered coriander seeds but received agricultural waste instead. This sounds a tall tal...