Issues
A Modern Day Miortia
A man on a mission, a Devil cruising toward retirement and women. These three things dominate the landscape in Andrei Codrescu's novel Wakefield . WBHM's Rosemary Pennington spoke with Codrescu about the novel and his all too familiar Devil.
Mental Music
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Black Farmer Lawsuit Update
Tractor motors and irrigation systems dominate the conversation at the Central Alabama Farmers Co-op in Selma, but farmers here, especially black farmers, are also keeping close tabs on the discrimination […]
Evi’s New Look
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Counting the Uncounted
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12 Days of Christmas
Okay, here we go: the 12 Days of Christmas. Since we’re a lot closer to the 12th Day than the first, we’re gonna do them backwards. So, on the 12th […]
Green Christmas
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Black Farmer Lawsuit
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Fall Break
The semester is half over and children have been hard at work. They’ve earned more than a weekend’s respite. At least, that’s the feeling of the nine Alabama school districts, […]
Economic Irony
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Watermelon 101
It’s an age-old puzzle. You’re standing in front of dozens of gorgeous watermelons…how do you choose the best one? The experts say there are two schools of thought on that… […]
World’s Longest Yard Sale
The grassy shoulders of the Lookout Mountain Parkway are littered with everything from furniture and electronics to handmade quilts and lawn ornaments. But the residents of the houses that dot […]
Youth Workforce Development
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Old Fashioned Market
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Sock Capital of the World
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Food Safety
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Scholar’s Bowl
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Alabama Bluegrass
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If Money Grew on Trees
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Philanthropy: Venture Philanthropy
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Philanthropy: Transfer of Wealth
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Education Budget Cuts
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Child Care Crunch
Carol Pierson is a fighter. After escaping a violent marriage, she fought to get off welfare and find a good job at a local university. ‘I work in the human […]
Carillon: The Bells of the Season
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The Road Less Traveled
The 94-mile highway known as Corridor X has been on the drawing board for three decades, but now, transportation officials say it is only a few years from being […]
For the Birds
On a quiet Sunday morning, the parking lot of the National Guard Armory is already filled with cars and vans and RVs, bearing tags as far away as Louisiana and […]
Race for City Hall
With a record-setting number of candidates … 18 in all … many Birmingham voters say they’re having a hard time telling the players, even with a program. WBHM invited two […]
Recycled/Remade: Folk Art at the BMA
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40 Years of Civil Rights
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Election: The Numbers Game
UAB professor Larry Powell is ‘the poll guy’. When media outlets want to do a political poll ‘ more often than not they tap Powell for the job and ,boy, […]
School Fees
Tatnisha McTerry and her kids have settled into the morning routine.10-year-old Detrick and 11-year-old Justin scrub their Michael Jordan tennis shoes till they shine. “It’s 6:55 boys! Six-55! You’ll be […]
The Clean Air Quest
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