Conversing with Gary Bourgeois and Jimmy Griffin is like listening to a comedy team of long standing. They speak in a kind of code, in which one always knows exactly what the other is about to say, which story is about to be told of their four-decade friendship. For most of that time, they've also had a business relationship, first at the legendary…

Dr. Zac Henson is a Birmingham-based social activist and scholar who proudly refers to himself as a "redneck" — a white, working-class Southerner, albeit one who received his doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley, and whose politics, in contrast to the general view of "rednecks," are decidedly not right-wing. Along with other loca…

If you don't know what's happened with indigent health care in Jefferson County since the closing of Cooper Green Hospital on December 31, 2012, you'll want to listen to Weld publisher Mark Kelly's conversation with Dr. Raegan Durant. A professor of preventive medicine at UAB, Durant is also Medical Director for Cooper Green Mercy Health Services, …

On the latest WeldCast, REV Birmingham CEO David Fleming talks about his organization's successes, its challenges and the critical balance between "big" projects and initiatives and promoting growth and development at the neighborhood level.بقلم Weld for Birmingham