Community Affairs News Archive
Birmingham Attorney Tyrell F. Jordan Creates an Endowed Scholarship to Support Students from Underrepresented Urban Communities
When Tyrell F. Jordan was preparing for college, the conversation became old hat. “I would tell folks I was going to The University of Alabama, and they wouldn’t believe me. They wanted to say it was somewhere else. I would finally have to say, ‘No. Roll Tide. You see them on TV every Saturday,’” said Jordan, who grew up attending inner-city […]
New skin care service opens in east Montgomery
River Region Dermatology is now open in east Montgomery providing comprehensive skin care services on Berryhill Road behind EastChase. About 10 jobs were created when the doors opened at the practice, which includes two dermatologists, a nurse practitioner, two aestheticians, two nurses, and three other employees. River Region Dermatology (RRD) provides services in medical dermatology, […]
Yellowhammer’s Cliff Sims accepts senior communications job in Trump White House
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump on Friday announced that Yellowhammer Founder and CEO Cliff Sims will be taking a senior role in his incoming administration as Special Assistant to the President and Director of White House Message Strategy. Sims founded Yellowhammer as his personal blog roughly five years ago and grew it into the […]
Britt Puts Another Crack in the Glass Ceiling as Chief of Staff
MONTGOMERY—At a time when Democrats are trumpeting the cracks made in the glass ceiling separating women from the highest positions in government, Alabama’s Republican Senior Senator Richard Shelby, quietly opened a new fissure by hiring Katie Boyd Britt as his new Chief of Staff. “Katie is a talented and hardworking professional, whose energy and knowledge […]