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Organizers of Mobile’s Mardi Gras celebration are making plans to resume the Fat Tuesday tradition, despite less than half of Alabama's residents fully vaccinated. Venues like the city's convention centers already are fully booked, and the first major parade is set to roll on February tenth.
Credit rtdna.org Alabama Public Radio won three regional Edward R. Murrow awards for our coverage of the tenth anniversary of the BP Gulf oil spill. This project utilized our Gulf Coast correspondents Guy Busby and Lynn Oldshue. APR recruited and trained Guy and Lynn to do radio stories to resolve the “news desert” along the coast. In fact, Lynn’s story on the ongoing effects of chemical oil dispersants was her first story for APR. Guy contributed a feature on how Gulf businesses coped with the impact of the spill 10 years ago and how they’re undergoing similar hardships with COVID-...
Alabama’s effort to expand COVID-19 vaccinations enters a new phase on March 22nd. That’s when the State will add 2,000,000 more resident eligible for a shot. The revised list will include more frontline workers, people 55 and older, those with developmental disabilities, and residents aged 16 to 64 with certain high-risk medical conditions. The qualifying medical conditions include cancer, chronic kidney disease, diabetes, smoking, obesity, sickle cell disease and heart conditions. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is also working to find why Alabamians appear especially hes...
APR news feature-- Teaching Confederate history in a changing world The Confederate Rest Cemetery in Point Clear is a quiet place. Headstones, new and old, mark 19th century graves. Richard Sheely points out, however, that this was not always such as peaceful location. More than 350 soldiers were hastily buried here when the nearby Grand Hotel was used as a Civil War military hospital. "If you notice those areas that are chained off," Sheely said, pointing to rectangular plots marked by chains. Richard Sheely, of the Sons of Confederate Veterans Credit APR's Guy Busby "Those are mass graves a...