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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...
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 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.
Get to Know: Jana Flinkow
Jana Flinkow, assistant principal of curriculum and instruction at Homewood High School, has spent her career working for Homewood schools. She served as a history teacher at the middle school and high school before becoming a grade-level administrator. This year, she will be the assistant principal of curriculum and instruction at Homewood High School.
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...
Homewood City Schools Foundation works to ‘enhance greatness’ of school system
Molly Hasenfuss said she did a little happy dance the day representatives from the Homewood City Schools Foundation walked into her classroom. She’d requested a grant to buy 10 sewing machines for her family and consumer science class at Homewood High School, and she found out the foundation was giving her the full amount.
Homewood student serves as Senate page
Homewood High School student Allie Grace Broadhead had the distinguished opportunity to be active in Alabama state government by serving as a Senate page this year. Broadhead received numerous opportunities to participate by helping run bills on the Senate floor and meeting Governor Kay Ivey, Lt. Governor Will Ainsworth, Representative David Faulkner and Senator April Weaver. She also attended a caucus luncheon and a judicial meeting, toured the Supreme Court and networked with politicians and other teens from across the state.
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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