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• Business – Birmingham View Blogs

  I’m under no illusions: Birmingham is not Hollywood. Heck, it’s not even Atlanta when it comes to the business of filmmaking and video creation. But I believe it can be. It has everything a moviemaker...

• Birmingham View Blogs – Page 2 – Views from Birmingham, the Magic City

  The Nation of Islam’s Minister Louis Farrakhan sure can pull a crowd. And controversy. His appearances in Birmingham and other Alabama cities last week with the National Coalition of Leaders to Save S...

• Birmingham View Blogs – Page 4 – Views from Birmingham, the Magic City

  I was distressed this morning to hear that the Birmingham School Board hastily called together a 5 p.m.  meeting today – a religious holiday for most people – to discuss the contract of Superintendent...

• The Picture That Changed Birmingham – Birmingham View Blogs

  The May 14, 1961, picture of Klansmen savagely beating non-violent Freedom Riders upon their arrival at the Birmingham Trailways bus station helped change the city’s course toward a destiny it has yet...

• Birmingham View Blogs – Page 6 – Views from Birmingham, the Magic City

  My New Year started with a bang: someone crashed into my car. It was sitting there, parked on the street in front of my apartment, minding its own business, when, at some time in the night/early morni...

• The Blueprint for Economic Prosperity: Is Birmingham Finally Ready? – Birmingham View Blogs

  Today, in Birmingham’s newest park — the result of community collaboration — comes the unveiling of a new plan for economic prosperity that is also the result of community collaboration. The Birmingha...