Tag: student
Comedian Roy Wood Jr. gives VR equipment to Ramsay High School
By Solomon Crenshaw Jr.
Alabama Newscenter
Comedian Roy Wood Jr. sometimes jokes about his experience as a member of the Ramsay High School baseball team.
Like when he talks about playing...
Birmingham Provides Resources to Help Families Meet FAFSA Deadline
By Erica Wright
The Birmingham Times
Birmingham Mayor Randall L. Woodfin joined Birmingham Promise, Inc. last week to announce resources to help seniors and their families...
Speaker stuns Morehouse grads, to pay off $40M student debt
By ERRIN HAINES WHACK
A billionaire technology investor stunned the entire graduating class at Morehouse College when he announced at their commencement Sunday that he...
16-year-old Diamond Sparks lost both parents, but prepares for concert of...
By Denise Stewart
For The Birmingham Times
When she was five years old, Diamond Sparks stepped up to the microphone at Piney Grove Baptist Church in...
UAB PhD student travels to Africa for foreign studies
By Tiffany Westry Womack
UAB News
Roman Johnson, a Ph.D. student studying medical sociology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, has been awarded a Foreign...
Birmingham native breaks barriers in engineering, while earning doctorate at FAMU
Special to the Times
Three Florida A&M University (FAMU) female doctoral students, who are also best friends, recently received their doctorates in engineering. Marcella Carnes...
Georgia Congressman John Lewis mesmerizes student body at Miles College...
By Trenisha Wiggins
Special to the Times
Georgia Congressman John Lewis on Monday delivered a riveting speech to dozens of students, teachers and dignitaries who flooded...
Outrage after South Carolina officer throws, arrests student in classroom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUax3HOuGMk
(CNN)The video shows a South Carolina school resource officer standing over a student, seated at her desk. He puts his arm near her neck,...
Alabama Prep Sports Academy Working to Keep Student-Athletes’ Dreams Alive
By: Brittany Young
With a goal of bridging the gap between academics and athletics, the Alabama Prep Sports Academy provides an option that many parents...
Muslim teen creates clock, shows teachers, gets arrested
(CNN)When Ahmed Mohamed went to his high school in Irving, Texas, Monday, he was so excited. A teenager with dreams of becoming an...
