Joe Moody
Senior producer & All Things Considered hostJoe Moody is a senior news producer and host for Alabama Public Radio. Before joining the news team, he taught academic writing for several years nationally and internationally. Joe has a Master of Arts in foreign language education as well as a Master of Library and Information Studies. When he is not playing his tenor banjo, he enjoys collecting and listening to jazz records from the 1950s and 60s.
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National Health Center Week begins today (Monday, August 7th). The Mobile County Health Department is working with its primary care division, Family Health, on the campaign. Saturday is Children's Health Day focusing on students going back to school and the immunizations that go with it. -
Birmingham’s Rickwood Field has been a working ballpark since 1910. This signifies it as the oldest professional ballpark in the United States. One of the highlights of its history is that the park was the home of the Birmingham Black Barons, a legendary team from the Negro leagues that hosted some of the best baseball players in American history. Major League Baseball is recognizing this history with a tribute to Willie Mays next year. -
The documentary titled Muscle Shoals helped to put the small community in Northwest Alabama on the map nationally and internationally. It was released in 2013 and featured everyone from Keith Richards to Aretha Franklin speaking on the brilliance of the area’s recording studios in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. -
An historic church in downtown Mobile will be singing praises for its third year. The event is titled Singing at the Steeple. It’ll be held tomorrow at the Steeple on St Francis in downtown Mobile. -
Alabama A&M University is working to bridge the gap in the teacher shortage within the fields of Science Technology Engineering and Math. The program is called AAMUTeach. The new four-year program at Alabama A&M University offers students a teaching certification while obtaining a STEM undergraduate degree at the same time. -
The Alabama legislature is expected to take up new legislation at preventing people from loitering on public highways, which could be a new avenue to target panhandlers. The bill by Republican House member Reed Ingram of Pike Road would increase the penalties for loitering on the side of state highways. -
Fairhope will be having its annual Arts & Crafts Festival this weekend (March 17-19). This marks its 71st year and it is free to the public. -
The story of an illegal slave ship brought to Alabama and the descendants of its captives is front and center today. A two-day lecture at Troy University is focusing on the discovery the Clotilda and the significance of the Africatown community. -
If you are ever in Washington DC, go take a look at a pair of Althea Thomas’ shoes in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. -
Alabama’s decision to change how it carries out executions is still drawing criticism. The state’s Supreme Court abolished the one-day time frame for executions allowing the governor to extend the amount of time needed to execute someone.
