Year: 2023

By Savannah Tryens-Fernandes Nearly one in five Alabama students are chronically absent from school. That means about 127,000 students missed more than 18 days of school in 2021-22, according to new data from The Associated […]

By Hannah Denham Five years after a tornado wrecked Jacksonville State University’s campus, disputes over the cost of cleanup continue in federal and state courts. Initially, JSU and ServPro of Birmingham appeared to work in harmony […]

By Williesha Morris Miles College will receive a $50,000 scholarship endowment fund for their Division of Communications on Aug. 23 from the Alabama Broadcasters Association (ABA). Dr. Steven E. Hairston, Vice President of Institutional Advancement, said […]

By Roy S. Johnson Mom was making her daughter a protein shake. Her 10-year-old daughter. It was September 7, 1996. Marchè Dickerson—then that child—remembers because it was the day Tupac Shakur, a transformative voice in hip-hop […]

By Ralph Chapoco and Alabama Reflector Alabama’s unemployment rate is lower than the nation’s. But so is its workforce participation rate. The Alabama Department of Labor Friday reported that the state’s unemployment rate for August was […]