Alabama

A man in a football jersey holds a trophy over his head as confetti rains down behind him.

Is Alabama’s football glory helping the university’s international brand?

Education

Alabama’s run of success has brought a lot of national attention to the university. Has it been able to leverage the team’s winning ways into success overseas?

Toyota Motor Manufacturing Alabama builds about 3,000 engines a day at its plant in Huntsville, powering one third of Toyota vehicles produced in North America.

How Alabama is becoming the auto capital of the South

Economics

Muscle Shoals Soul

Arts, Culture & Media

Blind Boys of Alabama

Arts, Culture & Media

William Christenberry

Arts, Culture & Media

About that “Negro dialect”…

Arts, Culture & Media

Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is in political hot water this week for past remarks he made about President Obama’s race. According to the new book Game Change, Reid encouraged Obama’s run for the White House, in part, because he was “light-skinned” and had “no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.’ Long […]

Kids at camp Anytown Alabama do an exercise on what it might mean to be undocumented, including the difficulty getting health coverage.

Learning what it’s like to be undocumented at an Alabama summer camp

Education

When I went to camp Anytown Alabama, the focus was on interracial dialogue. Now immigration is part of the camp curriculum.

Selma Bridge

Fifty years after Selma’s ‘Bloody Sunday,’ immigrants join fight against racism

Justice

Immigrant rights activists will join with civil rights leaders commemorating the 50th anniversary of the march in Selma, Alabama. “We want to reaffirm our role that we are fighting against oppression and discrimination.”

The World

Analyzing Alabama’s primary results

Global Politics

We analyze the results of Alabama’s most hotly contested primaries. Pat Duggins, News Director for Alabama Public Radio, fills us in on Alabama’s primary results and their significance.

Investigation finds lawmakers earmarking millions on projects close to home

Global Politics

The Washington Post conducted a lengthy investigation, published on Tuesday, that found U.S. Congress members earmarking $300 million for projects that in some cases quite literally go right past their front door. And there’s no transparency to the process.