Until now, that has done nothing to undermine the enduring popularity of the ballad, which spent eight weeks at No 1 in the Billboard charts and remains a perennial if puzzling favourite at weddings.

Monday’s march began at the Tyler Public Library with welcome speeches, prayers, and a poem, ‘The Ballad of Birmingham’ by Dudley Randall, recited by McGrew. The community, including Mayor ...

The application deadline for the online MBA programs at University of Alabama at Birmingham (Collat), a public school, is rolling. Eighty-five percent of students are already employed when they ...

By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary,” will be published this year. He teaches in the M.F.A. program in creative writing at Boston University, where he ...

Coleridge Tillman, better known as Sebastian Kole in Hollywood, has made a name for himself as a successful songwriter, but the Birmingham native is making a change in his music career.

Focus Features has set a March 28 limited release for The Ballad of Wallis Island, which is set to have its world premiere at this month’s Sundance Film Festival. Pic follows Charles (Tim Key ...

Rick Lupert, a poet, songleader and graphic designer, is the author of 28 books including “God Wrestler: A Poem for Every Torah Portion.” Visit him at www.JewishPoetry.net ...

Our columnist approves. By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most recently, “Normal Distance” and “Any Person Is the Only Self.” Her On Poetry ...

The Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership is a BBSRC-funded doctoral training partnership between the universities of Warwick, Birmingham, Leicester, Aston, Harper Adams and Coventry.

A councillor in Birmingham has called for those responsible for a failed Commonwealth Games legacy project to be named and shamed. The athletes' village in Perry Barr was built by the city council ...

The Prince of Wales surprised football fans as he popped into a local Wetherspoons in Birmingham ahead of Aston Villa's away clash with Everton on Wednesday evening. Prince William, 42 ...

Birmingham city leaders are playing a deadly game of “Russian roulette” when it comes to their inadequate response to violence in the city, a challenger for the mayor’s office said. “We ...