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North Alabama hospital has 47 COVID patients in ICU, 43 are unvaccinated

September 3, 2021 Bouldin 0

By Leada Gore Alabama is seeing an unprecedented surge in pediatric COVID cases with almost 5 times as many 5-17-year-olds diagnosed with the virus this year compared to last year. According to the Alabama Department […]

Mo Brooks: Terri Sewell’s John Lewis voting rights bill would turn elections into ‘North Korea’

September 3, 2021 Bouldin 0

By Howard Koplowitz A voting rights bill sponsored by Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Birmingham, and named after Alabama native, civil rights leader and late Rep. John Lewis, did not have the backing of Sewell’s state colleagues […]

Full slate dampened by one cancellation

September 3, 2021 Bouldin 0

LUT WILLIAMS BCSP Editor The Delta Variant strain of the COVID-19 virus has claimed its first victim of the 2021 black college football season. It was announced Monday night that because of an outbreak involving […]

How Walking Can Build Up the Brain

September 3, 2021 Bouldin 0

Older men and women who walked for six months showed improvements in white matter and memory, while those who danced or did stretching exercises did not. Exercise can freshen and renovate the white matter in […]

Progressive Union Church Honors Interim Pastor Rev. Joe Stevenson

September 3, 2021 Bouldin 0

Submitted by Greg Miley, SON Staff Writer The Progressive Union Church honored Rev. Joe Stevenson and wife, Mother Doris Stevenson, on Sunday, August 29, 2021. Following the passing of Rev. Dr. Wayne Snodgrass in September […]

Federal judge says Alabama laws against panhandling violate 1st Amendment

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By Mike Cason A federal judge in Montgomery ruled in favor of three homeless men who claimed that state laws against panhandling violate free speech rights granted under the First Amendment. U.S. District Judge Keith Watkins […]

Alabama A&M University Event Center, Huntsville, AL

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Historic Alabama University Begins Construction on Exciting New Event Center Alabama A&M (Agricultural & Mechanical) University has provided crucial educational opportunities since 1875, and is a community fixture in Huntsville, Alabama. On November 19th, 2020, […]

Montgomery civil rights legend Lucille Times – who got into a fist fight with Rosa Parks bus driver 6 months before protest – dies at age 100

September 3, 2021 Bouldin 0

By ALYSSA GUZMAN Civil rights activist Lucille Times, who got in a fistfight with a bus driver in Montgomery, dies at 100 She boycotted the buses before the Montgomery Bus Boycott had begun by picking up Black […]

Whitmire: The South walked kids into a COVID buzzsaw. Don’t repeat our mistakes, America.

September 3, 2021 Bouldin 0

By Kyle Whitmire America, it’s time for class. Take a seat and pay attention. Pay attention to Tennessee, where 36 percent of new COVID cases are among children, about triple the rate of a year ago. Pay attention […]

VACCINE FEST ON THE HILL

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Campus-wide Vaccinations By Debra Daniel The AAMU Student Health and Counseling Center held its first-ever Vaccine Fest Block Party Friday, August 27. The event provided students with free doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. Those […]