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St. Clair County Schools looks for solutions to keep Ragland High School open
RAGLAND, Ala. (WIAT) — The fate of Ragland High School for the 2025-2026 school year is currently uncertain, putting students and parents on edge for what the future holds. On the school’s campus, one building houses kindergarten through sixth-grade students while another serves the town’s seventh through twelfth grade. Roughly 380 students are currently enrolled, […]
UAB breaks ground on $190 million facility
The University of Alabama at Birmingham has broken ground on a $190 million facility for the Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine and the College of Arts and Sciences. The Biomedical Research and Psychology Building will house research faculty from the Heersink School of Medicine and the Department of Psychology.
Birmingham City Schools receive $1 million to address mental health among students
Birmingham, AL (WBMA) — Birmingham City schools is set to receive $1 million dollars to go towards addressing mental health among students. Birmingham City Council members allocated the funds at their June 4, 2024 council meeting. The funds will be used to cover 10 support counselors salaries. These counselors...
Birmingham City Schools Release ‘Under the Lights’ Game of the Week 2024 Football Schedule
With the football season less than two months away, BCS Media has released the schedule for the Birmingham City Schools Under the Lights Game of the Week broadcasts for 2024. This season, all Game of the Week broadcasts will fall on Thursdays. The games will be carried live on the district’s Vimeo channel.
An HBCU, whichever one it may be, is the ideal outcome of BSC’s demise
By Roy S. Johnson, member of the National Association of Black Journalists’ Hall of Fame, an Edward R. Murrow Award winner, and a Pulitzer Prize finalist for commentary. This is an opinion column. The Rev. Anson West was absolutely right—though I’ll swear on a stack of Bibles he didn’t...
Miles College Launches Center to Boost HBCU Innovation
Miles College President Bobbie Knight has announced establishment of the 2150 Center for Innovation, Commercialization & Growth to build a world-class space for researchers and founders, thought leaders and practitioners, businesses, and academia within Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) and Historically Black Community College’s (HBCC). “We are at...
UAB offers media tours of new UAB Medical West; Singing River Trail names interim director; Montgomery, Faulkner forge tuition agreement for officers; ‘Cake Lady’ dies at 89
The University of Alabama at Birmingham let the media inside the nearly completed $400 million UAB Medical West hospital. The hospital, in the Bessemer/McCalla area, will open in August. – Bham Now. Anna Clem has been named interim executive director of Singing River Trail, an organization that links outdoor...
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