PHOTOS: Bham Now's top nine Instagram posts in 2020

Author Hannah Chambley – December 31, 2020December 31, 2020From supporting Black-owned businesses in Birmingham to beautiful lights making our city brighter, these are our top nine posts of 2020. Screenshot via Top Nine One thing I look forward to each year is seeing people share their Top Nine on Instagram. On the last day of a year where so much has happened, we want to take some time to look back at our own top nine and reflect on some of the year’s most defining moments. 1. Watching the Black Lives Matter mural in front of Railroad Park come to life In just two days’ time back in June, local artists, activists and volunteers joined forces to create a Black Lives Matter mural in Birmingham. It was completed just in time for Juneteenth, a national holiday celebrated on June 19th which marks the day that Union soldiers arrived in Texas to tell enslaved people they were free—2.5 years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. 2. Remembering the Birmingham Pledge Some of the year’s most pivotal moments were the Black Lives Matter protests that took place at the end of May. Sparked by the killings of George Floyd, Breonna…
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