Micheal K. Williams
Age: 68
Occupation: Executive director of the Miles College Community Development Corporation.
Political experience: Served as Virginia’s commissioner on education, welfare reform and citizen empowerment; former president of the Richmond, Va., NAACP.
Main issue: Get some economic development into the city to clear up the financial situation.
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Solomon Crenshaw Jr., a regular writer for BirminghamWatch, recently won a third-place award and honorable mention in the National Federation of Press Women’s Communicator’s Awards for two of his BirminghamWatch pieces, along with a first-place award for a story published by the Bending the Arc Project. Read more.
