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One Woman’s Opinion
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Month: September 2021
Sports
Pivotal games on tap in Week Three
LUT WILLIAMS BCSP Editor It is hard to figure out where to start as Week 3 of the 2021 HBCU football season begins. There’s a little of everything – conference tussles, intriguing out-of-conference match-ups, FCS […]
AAMU
MCCALEP-MCINTOSH HALL RECEIVED $4.35 MILLION IN RENOVATIONS
Huntsville, Ala. —- An 80-year-old structure on the Alabama A&M University campus received a renaming during a ceremony on Thursday, September 2. The building named in honor of long-time AAMU administrator, educator and advocate George […]
Top News
MOTHER OF ALABAMA 4-YEAR-OLD KILLED IN CHICAGO RAISING MONEY TO ‘GET JUSTICE FOR MY BABY’
By Carol Robinson The mother of a young Alabama boy shot to death while visiting Chicago over Labor Day weekend has launched a GoFundMe to “help us raise awareness and get justice for my baby.” […]
Sports
Former NFL all-pros meet in Memphis
LUT WILLIAMS, BCSP Editor The first edition of Jackson State 2.0, the Tigers’ second year under head coach Deion “Coach Prime” Sanders, had a rather successful launch Sunday. The Tigers barely nudged out Florida A&M […]
City News
EMAIL WARNING OF VIOLENCE AHEAD OF JANUARY 6TH CAPITOL RIOT CAME FROM HUNTSVILLE FBI FACILITY: REPORT
By Leada Gore An email warning of violence from rallies like the one that led to the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riots originated from an FBI facility in Huntsville, new reports show. An FBI intelligence […]
State News
As COVID surges, most Alabama teachers must use own sick leave to quarantine
ASSOCIATED PRESS As cases of COVID continue to climb statewide, many Alabama teachers are finding out they must burn their own sick leave if they get sent home from school to quarantine. That’s a change […]
State News
PATIENTS WITH MEDICAL EMERGENCIES SEARCH FOR BEDS AS COVID FILLS ALA. INTENSIVE CARE UNITS
By Cameron Smith Dennis Harbison, 73, went to the ER at Bibb Medical Center in early August for pain from what he thought was a pulled muscle, difficulty breathing and low blood pressure. At the […]
City News
Growth in West Huntsville Straining Police, Fire Coverage Areas
By Paul Gattis Huntsville’s growth has stretched some city resources to the point that public safety has become strained in parts of the west side of Alabama’s largest city. It’s a problem acknowledged by the city’s […]
Headline News
‘IT’S TIME TO TAKE ANOTHER LOOK’ AT MAKING BODYCAMS PUBLIC, HUNTSVILLE COUNCILMAN JOHN MEREDITH SAYS
The Associated Press Until last week, he didn’t think it was possible legally to release such videos in Alabama. That’s what city lawyers told him, he said, as the city beat back his efforts to […]