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Olivia McMurrey
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WBHM
Whitman, Alabama features everyday Alabamians reciting Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself.” While the film debuted in 2017, airport leaders said it’s a perfect way to celebrate the U.S.'s 250th birthday.
WBHM has produced a special featuring the live recording of the 2026 Birmingham Folk Fest, held at the Avondale Park Amphitheater on May 16, 2026. Experience performances from local and regional artists as they celebrate the music, stories and community that make Birmingham’s folk scene unique.
We've made changes to our program schedules. Your favorite show is still waiting for you, but it may be at a different time or perhaps a different day.
Gulf States Newsroom
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Gerald Herbert/APThe parents of Nolan Wells, who was found dead on Horn Island in Mississippi, held a funeral for the 18-year-old on Monday. Wells was with friends for the Fourth of July and did not return home. -
Aubri Juhasz/Gulf States NewsroomNearly everything costs more this summer, from groceries to gas. But families still need childcare or just want to send their kids to camp.
News from NPR
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For more than a decade, there's been something fishy going on in a lake that straddles Vermont and the province of Quebec. It involves cancer, a kind of catfish, and — possibly — clues about how tumors metastasize. -
Plastic surgery is becoming so normalized and undetectable, it's changing our relationship to reality. The New Yorker staff writer Jia Tolentino considers how beauty standards have dovetailed with AI. -
It's not just watching paint dry. The twists and turns of the Reflecting Pool repairs, originally a two-week project, have kept bloggers and viewers busy all summer. -
An independent autopsy of the body of Nolan Wells shows that the cause of death is undetermined pending an investigation, according to attorney Ben Crump. -
The scythe-winged birds have nested in the cracks of the Western Wall and other holy sites in Jerusalem for thousands of years.
