Esperance Uwayirege TaylorEsperance was five years old and running in a forest a few miles away from her parents impressive compound in Rwanda that had been transformed into to a refugee camp for people of that country and others who were victims of government repression, cultural brutality, racism, domestic violence and human trafficking. While running, […]
Mark Kelly. Mark is a father, a songwriter, a band member, the publisher of Weld and a devotee of the City of Birmingham. He was born in Haleyville, Al., did most of his growing up in Russellville, but not long after coming to Birmingham for college, knew he’d found his home for life. I began our conversation […]
Chervis Isom, Photographed in the Norwood neighborhood where he grew up and had his paper route. I begin our conversation by explaining how the Obama 2008 election campaign of Hope and Change had inspired my desire to understand what Hope means. His face drops immediately, and he says that it is such a shame […]
