Images of Birmingham.
"Birmingham, like any other city, is more than one thing, and its people, a combination of kind and calloused, beautiful and broken. Yet, the Magic City has an ace up its sleeve -- its undeniable heart -- one that, in just 15 years, allowed it to move from jailing MLK to electing an African American mayor, among other things.
Below are select images of my hometown's journey from past to present, then to now, and how it's a city that continues to show the rest of America who it can be." -- RD Moore
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THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND'S "The Goodbye Girl" vignette is a glimpse into 1970s Birmingham from one boy's perspective and, more broadly, an examination of the kind of damage redlining does. But more than anything, it's a story of transformation, and how the people of that great city turned their diversity, something long thought of as a liability, into its greatest asset. Read about it here.