Two black college and professional sports superstars from another era passed over the past weeks, Grambling and NBA basketball star Willis Reed and Prairie View A&M and NFL standout Otis Taylor. Both were 80. WILLIS […]
By Paul Gattis A children’s choir sang and a crowd so large squeezed into the museum that it would have left a fire marshal hyperventilating. This commemoration Friday at the Scottsboro Boys Museum in downtown […]
By Ruth Serven Smith The Biden administration has again updated key deadlines and the overall timeline for borrowers hoping to receive student loan forgiveness under a one-time IDR account adjustment. An Income Driven Repayment plan adjustment […]
Alabama A&M University alum Zandra Moten is the proud author of two books about PCS,or Permanent Change of Station. For military families, PCS means packing up and moving to another military base, city,state or country […]
By Scott Turner Historic Huntsville Foundation Executive Director Donna Castellano is playing a key role in preserving the city’s history at a time of record growth. As new buildings go up every month throughout Alabama’s […]
By Howard Koplowitz President Biden awarded Bryan Stevenson, attorney and founder of the Montgomery-based Equal Justice Initiative, with a National Humanities Medal “for his moral call to redeem the soul of our nation.” The EJI […]
By Dr. Richard Menger This is a guest opinion column Alabama is facing a crisis regarding hospital operating costs. Alabama hospitals posted a 79% decrease in operating margin from 2019-2022. This has put rural hospitals […]
By Mike Cason A bill to make it illegal to hold a cell phone while driving won approval this morning in the Public Safety Committee in the Alabama House of Representatives. It’s already illegal to […]
By Ruth Serven Smith Medicaid coverage will end for millions of Americans in the coming months, and it will push many into unfamiliar territory: the health insurance marketplace. States will start cutting people from the government-funded […]
By Carol Robinson The scene at a Birmingham gas station Sunday night was all too familiar for one family. Nearly five years after Demetrius Antwan Davis Sr. was gunned down in a targeted shooting at M & […]
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