Over two days, TROY students learned about Motion Design and attended a career fair highlighting journalism and graphic design opportunities through the inaugural Jerry Johnson Art & Design Symposium.
And, sitting across from the Rosa Parks Museum, Montgomery’s Davis Theatre for the Performing Arts was known as the Paramount Theatre, when it opened in 1930. Producer Hans Ng reports that with a new name and owner, the theatre has a new role in the community.
After Janette Grantham’s brother, Sheriff Neil Grantham of Coffee County, AL, was murdered in 1979, she became an advocate for the rights of crime victims. In part two of her interview, the Victims of Crime and Leniency executive director talks with In Focus host Carolyn Hutcheson about her fight for justice for crime victims and survivors.
During National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, Janette Grantham, State Director of VOCAL, Victims of Crime and Leniency nonprofit, talks with Carolyn Hutcheson, In Focus host, about the 1979 murder of her brother, Coffee County, AL, Sheriff Neil Grantham. Tomorrow we continue the discussion of the services VOCAL provides to victims of violent crime. On April 28, at 7 p.m., a Candlelight Vigil will be held on the grounds of the Alabama Attorney General’s office in downtown Montgomery.
In April of 2022, the City of Northport, AL, cited veterinarian Dr. Ellen Newsom for having an organic garden on her lawn. Remarkably, she ended up in criminal court facing a jury. Investigative journalist Lee Hedgepeth talks with In Focus host Carolyn Hutcheson about the case, which he featured in his Tread online newsletter, treadbylee.com
On The Exchange, Amanda Senn, Chief Deputy Director of the Alabama Securities Commission, talks with Carolyn Hutcheson, In Focus host, about teens who help their elders with cell phone and internet technology issues. However, because teens tend to put a lot of personal information online, it increases the chances of being victimized by fraud.
On this Earth Day Weekend, In Focus brings you an on-location interview at Herb Day in April 2022. James Jones talks with Carolyn Hutcheson about blending herbal teas.
Also, Carolyn goes on a wildflower hike with Verna Gates, executive director of Fresh Air Family and past president of the Birmingham Wildflower Society
TROY Public Radio’s Kyle Gassiott shared practical reporting advice with TROY students at a recent lunch and learn event on the main campus.
And, at the center of the quad sits one of Troy University’s most recognizable landmarks. The Trojan Fountain, depicting a warrior watching over the campus, serves as both an inspiration and background for selfies as producer Lyric Davis learned.
Freelance journalist Nick Tabor moved to Mobile while he researched the history of the last slave ship, Clotilda, and interviewed the survivors’ descendants. He talked iwth In Focus host Carolyn Hutcheson about Africatown today and its prospects as a heritage tourism site. Tabor’s book is “Africatown, America’s Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created.”
NOTE: This program was taped on Tuesday before news of the arrest of two suspects in the shooting
In observance of Earth Week, Verna Gates, Executive Director of Fresh Air Family and Past-President of the Birmingham Wildflower Society, talks with Carolyn Hutcheson, In Focus host, about their wildflower hike at Shoal Creek Park in Shelby County, Alabama. Fresh Air Family will celebrate Earth Day April 22 at Oak Mountain State Park.
