Alabama State University

The Magic City Classic is fast approaching, and the members of the football team are not the only ones practicing. This is the annual game between Alabama A&M and Alabama State University. Many fans will be more excited about the marching bands than the game itself. The Mighty Marching Hornets is the band for Alabama State. APR's Joe Moody explains their significance and what makes them more than a marching band:

Transgender women in Alabama would be prohibited from joining female sports teams in college under legislation advanced Tuesday by the Alabama House of Representatives as part of a wave of restrictions on transgender people being pushed in conservative states.

Alabama State University’s ASPIRE Head Start program is still accepting applications for its annual summer camp. The ASU ASPIRE Summer Camp is set for June 12-29.

The Alabama Shakespeare Festival is looking to bring more diversity to the arts. The Montgomery-based theater signed a deal with the historically Black…

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A historically black college in Alabama is using the state's Confederate Memorial Day to highlight the 1981 lynching of a black…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama State University students who were expelled for leading the state's first known sit-in protest against segregation have…