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Anna Beahm (Michigan Live) writes, “Zombies, potions, and puppets? Nope! Here’s what Voodoo REALLY is (and why we should celebrate it).” [Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] When the transatlantic slave trade took Africans to America, they brought with them their powerful ancestral practices and spiritual traditions, collectively known as Voodoo.…

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min read When the pandemic struck, a university's central IT organization helped develop a statewide exposure notification app, working in partnership with distributed IT, the state public health agency, and technology companies. Credit: Magic Panda / Shutterstock.com © 2020 It all began so simply. A researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) came to Chris Brown (vice president of research) and to me, Curt Carver (vice president/CIO) with the idea of developing a symptom tracker as a foundational tool for universities and organizations to proactively attack the pandemic. ...

For some Alabama schools, it’s home before and after the holidays as COVID cases surge Updated Dec 11, 2020; Posted Dec 10, 2020 Alabama State Superintendent Eric Mackey speaks to superintendents at meeting on Aug. 28, 2019, in Montgomery, Ala. Mackey has deferred to local school systems when it comes to making decisions on whether to host in-person school or remote education during the coronavirus pandemic. Facebook Share But for Jefferson County, the schedule remains the same. Other districts, such as Hoover and Tuscaloosa city schools, will return with staggered scheduling in which so...