City Councilors on the Importance of HBCUs to Birmingham — and Vice Versa
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Birmingham City Council President Pro Tem Crystal Smitherman doesn’t just know about the HBCU experience. She’s lived it. Smitherman is a graduate of Hampton University a Historically Black College and University in Virginia. Her mother, Judge Carole Smitherman, of Jefferson County’s 10th Judicial Circuit, attended Spelman College in Atlanta before earning a law degree at […]