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Breast Cancer Awareness month has Alabamians wearing their pink ribbons of support.
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On this week’s Keepin’ It Real, Cam Marston tells us how trying to get away from the rat race turned him into a rat. -
Moviegoers in Mobile have until Thursday to get a sneak peek of a new documentary about the last slave ship to bring kidnapped Africans to Alabama.
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The rock group Toto won the Grammy for record of the year in 1982 for their hit song Rosanna. That was the same year Alabama Public Radio first went on the air. The APR news team is observing this fortieth anniversary with encore airings of the best of our stories. That includes this one from 2020. It’s college football season. APR student intern Jamie Jefferson examined the economic impact of football on the Tuscaloosa area during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here’s that story from the APR archives.
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Alabama healthcare providers are working to get ahead of a possible winter time surge of COVID-19.
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Alex Drueke, a Tuscaloosa man captured by Russia during the war with Ukraine, sat down with APR news to talk about his future plans.
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Alabama's law to ban transgender treatments for teenagers is currently blocked in the courts. That's not stopping Republicans in Tennessee from vowing to take action.
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Protecting your outdoor pet in Winter may take some extra effort on your part.
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On today’s edition of Keepin It Real, Cam Marston tells us about a conversation he had with a young man he met at a conference this week in Orlando.
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Now a retired English professor at The University of Alabama, Dr. Noble's specialties are Southern and American literature.
Speaking of Pets with host Mindy Norton is a commentary (opinion piece) for people who care about pets and humane treatment for animals in general, and who want to celebrate that special relationship between us and our animal companions.
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After the Chernobyl disaster of 1986, hundreds of children from the affected areas dealt with multiple health issues caused by radiation from the nuclear meltdown. A few years later, families from all across Alabama housed many of those same children for a summer to give them access to better healthcare and a reprieve from the radiation.
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Tomorrow is homecoming for the University of Alabama and both the Crimson Tide and its opponent are dealing with incidents not related to the game.
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A spicy fundraiser is making its way to Birmingham tomorrow.
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Black Restaurant Week is taking place this week along the Gulf Coast. The event celebrates the flavors of African American, African and Caribbean cuisine. It’s happening from now until Sunday.
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The thirteenth amendment did away with slavery in the United States one hundred and fifty seven years ago. Alabama voters may take similar action next month. The state’s Constitution still allows involuntary servitude. An estimated four hundred thousand slaves were held in Alabama before they were finally freed in 1865. APR spoke with the descendants of some of these people. They talked about trying to find the burial sites of their ancestors, and facing roadblocks not shared by their white neighbors.
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In this segment of Crunk Culture, Robin Boylorn addresses the issue of gentrification – both from a cultural and environmental perspective.
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Alabama’s Central Data Repository says over sixteen thousand Alabama residents were treated for substance abuse in 2021. Close to two thousand of those were in Baldwin County. Limited resources also make recovery even harder in south Alabama. Most of the leaders in local recovery have been there themselves.
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The late astronaut Sally Ride became the first American woman in space back in 1982. That was the same year that Alabama Public Radio first started serving our listeners. All through 2022, the APR news team will present encore broadcasts of the best of the best of the best of our stories. That includes this story from 2015. APR spent a year investigating water issues in the state. APR’s Pat Duggins covered the problem caused by a lack of irrigation for Alabama’s agricultural industry. Here’s that story from the APR archives.
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Alabamians could be waking up to what are called killing freeze temperatures today.
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Folklorist Provides Inside Look at Master Potter
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Tuscaloosa native Deontay Wilder returned to the boxing ring on Saturday and the Crimson Tide faces the Tennessee Vols in Knoxville. Each had a different outcome.
