Mayor
City Council
District 1: Tanyika Fields, Veronica Bandy Freeman, Cynthia Hurd Threatt, and Loxcil Tuck.
District 2: Laura D. Horton and Tracie B. Threadford.
District 3: Cathy Anderson and Douglas Howard.
District 4: Deborah Matthews and Bill Renfrow.
District 5: John T. (Tommy) Bryant and Jameka T. Wright
Birmingham Promise received a $10 million grant from PNC Foundation to promote postsecondary success for city of Birmingham school graduates, the largest grant of its kind since the Promise program was created in 2019. Read more.
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The mood was somber in the auditorium at A.H. Parker High School Monday night as neighbors of Birmingham-Southern College expressed their concern about the announced closing of the liberal arts college as of May 21.
State Rep. Juandalynn Givan, D-Birmingham, hosted a town hall to field questions about the school. Of particular concern was what will happen to the 192-acre campus. More than one compared BSC to the old Carraway Hospital property, which deteriorated for years north of downtown. Read more.
