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Public Radio for the Heart of Alabama
WBHM 90.3 Public Radio
English, Political, 1 seasons, 145 episodes, 11 hours 12 minutes
WBHM 90.3 Public Radio
English, Political, 1 seasons, 145 episodes, 11 hours 12 minutes
A ‘catastrophic’ loss: Severe heat puts a heavy strain on rural farmers in the Gulf South
01/01/0001 • 4 minutes 50 seconds
Birmingham students take trip back in time for lesson on 16th Street Baptist Church bombing
01/01/0001 • 2 minutes 7 seconds
Birmingham residents reflect on 60th anniversary of church bombing
01/01/0001 • 4 minutes 55 seconds
With spread of fentanyl, opioids kill record number of Black men in Birmingham
01/01/0001 • 4 minutes 23 seconds
Q&A: Why New Orleans’ unhoused people face increased danger from relentless heat
01/01/0001 • 5 minutes 39 seconds
Q&A: Author of ‘Rocket Men’ details how Black quarterbacks helped move the NFL forward
01/01/0001 • 5 minutes 37 seconds
After 12 years and a pandemic, Jefferson County’s health officer steps down
01/01/0001 • 4 minutes 53 seconds
6 months later, Mississippi communities hit by March tornado fear they’ve been abandoned
01/01/0001 • 3 minutes 52 seconds
In Alabama’s Paint Rock Valley, researchers count every tree thicker than a pencil
01/01/0001 • 4 minutes 39 seconds
Book bans are on the rise in the Gulf South. Here’s what’s being challenged in Alabama
01/01/0001 • 4 minutes 39 seconds
How Gulf South outdoor workers dealt with the hottest August on record
01/01/0001 • 3 minutes 32 seconds
The Gulf South’s record heat brought another pain for residents — higher power bills
01/01/0001 • 5 minutes 6 seconds
Ukrainian baker reconnects to Birmingham by sharing her sweet treat
01/01/0001 • 4 minutes 22 seconds
At Huntingdon College, Alabama’s 1st NCAA women’s wrestling team is ready to roll
01/01/0001 • 5 minutes
Runoff Tuesday in race for House District 55
01/01/0001 • 1 minute 40 seconds
Paws and prayers: Hoover church’s furry congregation gets blessed
01/01/0001 • 3 minutes 49 seconds
The Gulf South looks to ‘charge up’ its economy with electric vehicles
01/01/0001 • 4 minutes 49 seconds
At the Magic City Classic, what you wear is just as important as who you cheer for
01/01/0001 • 5 minutes 13 seconds
Place, Erased: How a drowned Alabama town still holds lessons 60 years later
01/01/0001 • 6 minutes 49 seconds
Birmingham-Southern hoped to borrow money. Now the school is on borrowed time
01/01/0001 • 3 minutes 52 seconds
Place, Erased: Is this Mississippi community really a ghost town? It depends on who you ask
01/01/0001 • 6 minutes 57 seconds
Place, Erased: The fight for the remains of a Louisiana town
01/01/0001 • 6 minutes 39 seconds
Remembering Margaret Walker 50 years later, as her groundbreaking poetry festival returns to Jackson
01/01/0001 • 4 minutes 55 seconds
Community connects Dia De Los Muertos artwork
01/01/0001 • 1 minute 53 seconds
Birmingham’s first Black police officer has died
01/01/0001 • 55 seconds
Vincent coffee shop becomes community hub
01/01/0001 • 3 minutes 25 seconds
LGBTQ doctors are leaving the Gulf South due to discrimination: ‘We weren’t welcome anymore’
01/01/0001 • 5 minutes 23 seconds
A pro jiu-jitsu league is bringing grapplers from across the globe to a small city in Alabama
01/01/0001 • 5 minutes 33 seconds
Why trees are an environmental and health Swiss army knife
01/01/0001 • 4 minutes 48 seconds
A year after the Moody landfill fire: “We need just as much help now”
01/01/0001 • 4 minutes 10 seconds
She owed $7K due to a water leak. Her utility saw the signs but didn’t tell her
01/01/0001 • 5 minutes 4 seconds
LGBTQ community finds a home in Birmingham’s punk scene
01/01/0001 • 4 minutes 6 seconds
In fight to remove divisive New Orleans highway, activists turn to new strategy — an EPA study
• 5 minutes 24 seconds
She looked for help after her power bill doubled. But aid for utilities often falls short
• 5 minutes 41 seconds
From drought to heavy rain, climate change means more of both
• 4 minutes 59 seconds
The connection is growing between climate change and big storms
• 4 minutes 22 seconds
Parents, students deal with record-breaking heat at the start of football season
• 3 minutes 14 seconds
Alabama’s John Christy may be the country’s best known and most criticized climate change skeptic
• 5 minutes 11 seconds
Nature-based education on the rise in Alabama
• 5 minutes 46 seconds
Heat is the top weather-related killer. In Alabama, it may just be getting started
• 4 minutes 59 seconds
Alabama has escaped the worst of climate change. Is our luck about to run out?
• 4 minutes 24 seconds
As the peak of hurricane season nears, Southwest Louisiana is still recovering from 2020 storms
• 5 minutes 42 seconds
Alabama artist Delrico Gibson uses ‘Strings of Gratitude’ to tell his story of recovery
• 3 minutes 17 seconds
EPA wants to reject Alabama’s coal ash program; says it is not protective enough
• 1 minute 11 seconds
An Alabama family’s water bill tripled after moving just outside of city limits. Here’s why
• 4 minutes 38 seconds
Alabama providers sue over threat of prosecution for abortion assistance
• 2 minutes 11 seconds
Residents near Louisiana Dow plant are skeptical after explosion: ‘You can’t trust them’
• 4 minutes 25 seconds
How Mississippi historians are preserving Emmett Till’s and Mamie Till-Mobley’s story
• 5 minutes 4 seconds
To meet rising demand, UAB emergency room begins $73 million expansion
• 1 minute 36 seconds
North Birmingham’s Bluestone Coke plant issued warning for Clean Water Act violations
• 1 minute 12 seconds
Elder Black farmers in Mississippi seek a new generation to continue their legacy
• 5 minutes 41 seconds
In rural Mississippi, Baby University is helping parents with ‘more than diapers’
• 4 minutes 31 seconds
The Birmingham Zoo wants to build a new cat exhibit. First they must deal with unmarked graves
• 3 minutes 2 seconds
Alabama student finds home in the comfort of her mind
• 4 minutes 32 seconds
Through social clubs and education, Birmingham woman creates community
• 4 minutes 21 seconds
She thought one call would fix her power bill. A year later, she’s still not satisfied
• 5 minutes 48 seconds
As ‘overwhelming’ heat dome settles over the Gulf South, unhoused residents seek refuge
• 4 minutes 58 seconds
How hard is life after prison? This simulation in Birmingham offers a taste
• 5 minutes 4 seconds
Alabama’s hemlocks face threat from a deadly insect
• 4 minutes 43 seconds
‘Kids will end their lives’: Anti-trans legislation is impacting mental health in the Gulf South
• 5 minutes 3 seconds
As the US invests more in climate-smart ag, these Louisiana farmers could serve as a model
• 4 minutes 28 seconds
Alabama lawmakers close out 2023 legislative session
• 5 minutes 3 seconds
With pandemic-era boost to SNAP over, a Mississippi diaper bank is receiving more calls for help
• 2 minutes 18 seconds
Major bills cross the finish line with one day left in legislative session
• 5 minutes 23 seconds
Birmingham school aims to bring Montessori to Black families
• 4 minutes 47 seconds
How TikTok and the South’s urban legends opened new doors for Alabama’s Joshua Dairen
• 5 minutes 32 seconds
A water leak led to a $20K bill for an Alabama couple. A smart meter could have saved them
• 5 minutes 39 seconds
Former governor says Alabama’s approach to the death penalty should shock the conscience
• 5 minutes 11 seconds
Budgets head to the governor after early morning vote
• 5 minutes 7 seconds
An Alabama program helps residents stormproof their homes. Louisiana wants to copy it
• 5 minutes 52 seconds
‘Were you scared?’: Birmingham family talks about civil rights then and now
• 5 minutes 22 seconds
Cahaba lily season draws crowds, inspires conservation efforts
• 5 minutes 37 seconds
Alabama lawmakers debate legal definition of ‘woman’
• 5 minutes 16 seconds
New biography examines King as a person over the myth
• 4 minutes 52 seconds
To improve birth outcomes for uninsured moms, Birmingham is training more doulas
• 3 minutes 29 seconds
School choice bill advances after spending cap added
• 5 minutes 10 seconds
Tuberville defends hold on defense nominations, says Pentagon wrong to screen out white nationalists
• 5 minutes 12 seconds
60 years later, kids still march in Birmingham
• 3 minutes 2 seconds
‘Unprecedented’ education budget passes Alabama Senate
• 4 minutes 51 seconds
Fentanyl is killing more young people in Alabama
• 5 minutes 54 seconds
At Lovelady Center, women find hope after surviving fentanyl
• 4 minutes 23 seconds
A Ukrainian dressmaker and his family find refuge and a new beginning in Vestavia Hills
• 5 minutes 53 seconds
Families find support during a new wave of the opioid epidemic
• 4 minutes 30 seconds
Increasing popularity of Alabama’s Pinhoti Trail sparks economic opportunity
• 5 minutes 4 seconds
Any school can get you a diploma. This school might get you a house
• 5 minutes 57 seconds
Rocky start for Alabama school choice bill
• 5 minutes 23 seconds
Republicans and Democrats split over response to Sweet 16 party shooting
• 5 minutes 7 seconds
Arms are open again for infant cuddling after pandemic pause
• 3 minutes 41 seconds
Why SCOTUS decision on abortion pill ban won’t change much for Gulf South residents
• 3 minutes 43 seconds
Why preventing flooding in Mississippi’s Yazoo Backwater is easier said than done
• 5 minutes 44 seconds
School choice bill now on lawmakers’ agenda
• 5 minutes 31 seconds
With ‘dollar stores in every direction,’ some communities are saying enough
• 4 minutes 51 seconds
How this year’s Selma Bridge Crossing could mark a community renaissance
• 4 minutes 48 seconds
WBRC’s new podcast explores the disappearance of Kamille ‘Cupcake’ McKinney
• 4 minutes 26 seconds
Lawmakers wrap up special session on COVID relief funds
• 5 minutes 22 seconds
In rural Mississippi, E.R. staff are being trained to care for moms and deliver babies
• 4 minutes 38 seconds
A local hip-hop education group teaches kids life skills
• 5 minutes 14 seconds
As midwifery evolves, this Mississippi museum is preserving the history of granny midwives
• 4 minutes 28 seconds
In New Orleans, doctors and churches are teaming up to help Black parishioners get needed care
• 5 minutes 27 seconds
Red Mountain Cut features time capsule of Alabama’s robust geologic history
• 5 minutes 3 seconds
With the NCAA Tournament in town, Birmingham is ready for thrilling games, an economic boost
• 4 minutes 24 seconds
Hoover City Schools canceled Derrick Barnes’ visit. He says it’s political
• 2 minutes 17 seconds
An inside look at an AP African American Studies class
• 5 minutes 28 seconds
New exhibition driving bill would stiffen penalties, including fines and jail time
• 3 minutes 34 seconds
In the quest for new cancer treatments, researchers look to outer space
• 3 minutes 39 seconds
Birmingham wants to try micro shelters again. Here’s how they’ll be different this time
• 2 minutes 25 seconds
Tougher penalties on fentanyl trafficking now law
• 4 minutes 54 seconds
Who would put out a landfill fire near Moody? That question consumed officials for weeks
• 4 minutes 12 seconds
After deadliest year on record, families remember loved ones lost in Alabama prisons
• 4 minutes 47 seconds
Health advocates hope Narcan’s over-the-counter status will bypass Alabama’s strict laws
• 5 minutes 1 second
While rebuilding homes, Amish volunteers bond with South Louisiana over faith and food
• 5 minutes 37 seconds
‘Unreformed’ podcast tells the largely untold story of an abusive Alabama reform school
• 5 minutes 29 seconds
Preparing for the ‘experience of a lifetime’: Birmingham students to sing at Carnegie Hall
• 5 minutes 15 seconds
This swampy paradise is Alabama’s winter haven for sandhill cranes
• 3 minutes 38 seconds
In post-Roe Mississippi, pregnancy resource centers are becoming the last hope for maternal care
• 5 minutes 16 seconds
Volunteers are driving in to offer hot meals, necessities to Mississippi tornado survivors
• 3 minutes 39 seconds
A Mississippi community is ‘grateful’ for more air testing, but skeptical of what comes next
• 4 minutes 53 seconds
Bills tackling fentanyl trafficking and ‘good time’ limits in prisons advance
• 5 minutes 16 seconds
‘Injustice, Inc.’ uncovers how some in the legal system use poor families to get rich
• 5 minutes 3 seconds
Public transit in the Gulf South is in need of an overhaul. The solution could lie in the past
• 4 minutes 39 seconds
‘Nobody is getting to you’: How workforce challenges leave Gulf South EMS agencies strapped
• 5 minutes 7 seconds
The 2023 Alabama legislative session starts Tuesday. Here’s your preview
• 5 minutes 11 seconds
Some kids in Birmingham dodge trains and cars walking to school. More buses could help
• 5 minutes 1 second
‘White Lies’ sheds light on a prison takeover in Talladega that led to today’s immigration system
• 7 minutes 22 seconds
Spurred by slow deportation wait times, Louisiana ICE detainees attempted a hunger strike
• 3 minutes 38 seconds
Advocates warn of a ‘dollar store invasion.’ Researchers are still figuring out the consequences
• 5 minutes 1 second
Mississippi updated its solar energy guidelines. Renewable energy advocates want more
• 5 minutes 2 seconds
A months-long landfill fire in Alabama reveals waste regulation gaps
• 4 minutes 57 seconds
‘Ruffed’ up by school? These dogs help Birmingham students with stress
• 4 minutes 44 seconds
An old school in Birmingham’s Bush Hills is now an urban farm. Residents are thinking bigger
• 3 minutes 51 seconds
JeffCo Commission agrees to support Magic City Classic for 1 year, will consider longer contract later
• 2 minutes 21 seconds
Presence of chemicals in landfill fire smoke catalyzes EPA to step in
• 5 minutes 20 seconds
Birmingham-Southern College to stay open — for now
• 2 minutes 19 seconds
Residents worry about unknown health impacts of toxic landfill fumes
• 4 minutes 27 seconds
In the fight for environmental justice, Birmingham tells Jackson to stay loud
• 4 minutes 57 seconds
Birmingham-Southern president says he’ll do everything possible to keep the college open
• 5 minutes 13 seconds
As Alabama coal miners strike nears end, a look at why it started, and how it failed
• 5 minutes 30 seconds
In Rolling Fork, a congregation comes together to save a century-old church
• 3 minutes 44 seconds
After botched executions, Alabama will try lethal injection again
• 3 minutes 43 seconds
Special session underway on spending federal pandemic funds
• 5 minutes 26 seconds
Alabama advocates urge treatment over punishment for pregnant women jailed for substance use
• 5 minutes 18 seconds
A small team works to aid immigrants in Louisiana: ‘Do the best you can with the time you have’
• 5 minutes 30 seconds
Alabama medicinal plants inspire new UAB art exhibit
• 4 minutes
Dollar stores are everywhere in the South. These 5 charts explain what’s behind their growth
• 5 minutes 32 seconds
Garrett McQueen: The Sound of 13
• 8 minutes 8 seconds