State News

By Trisha Powell Crain Birmingham elementary school teacher Reggie White was named Alabama’s 2022-23 Teacher of the Year Wednesday night in Montgomery. “I believe it is important for my students to see me as a real […]

By Ruth Serven Smith Women in Alabama are part of a powerhouse of post-COVID job creation in Alabama, but still must fight for equal pay and access to work, according to a new report. According […]

By Ruth Serven Smith  The University of Alabama presented civil rights pioneer and attorney Fred Gray with an honorary law degree May 8. Gray, born in 1930 in Montgomery, attended Alabama State for his bachelor’s and […]

NEWS RELEASE Miguel A. Cardona, Ed.D., U.S. Secretary of Education appointed Dr. Quinton Ross, president, Alabama State University, to serve as a member of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Capital Financing Advisory Board (HBCUC- […]

By Trisha Powell Crain Thousands of Alabama public school teachers could be eligible for a $1,000 stipend for working on their reading instruction. State education officials say instructors who voluntarily completed the training – two years for […]

By Mike Cason Jo Ann Robinson was an English professor at Alabama State College in the 1950s who fought for changes on Montgomery’s segregated buses well before the arrest of Rosa Parks. When Parks was arrested […]