A conversation with Mary and Freddie Howard of Monroe County, Alabama, publishers of The Beatrice Legacy. Here in Beatrice, as Mary Howard notes, Black people still mostly live on one side of the railroad tracks; White people on the other. Can a community newspaper successfully serve as a bridge between oft-divided townspeople?<a href="/captivate-podcast/newspapers-are-not-dead" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Listen to the next episode</a>

A conversation with Mary and Freddie Howard of Monroe County, Alabama, publishers of The Beatrice Legacy. Here in Beatrice, as Mary Howard notes, Black people still mostly live on one side of the railroad tracks; White people on the other. Can a community newspaper successfully serve as a bridge between oft-divided townspeople? Listen to the next episode

A conversation with&nbsp;Mary and Freddie Howard&nbsp;of Monroe County, Alabama, publishers of The Beatrice Legacy. Here in Beatrice, as Mary Howard notes, Black people still mostly live on one side of the railroad tracks; White people on the other. Can a community newspaper successfully serve as a bridge between oft-divided townspeople?<a href="/captivate-podcast/newspapers-are-not-dead" rel="noopener noreferrer">Listen to the next episode</a>

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Since 1900, Alabama has lost around 90 percent of its newspapers. Can citizen-created community newspapers reverse that trend? And can learning more about our neighbors generate the kind of goodwill needed for thriving communities and a healthy democracy? Host Byron Williams explores these questions and more in "Democracy and the Informed Citizen," a five-episode podcast series presented by the Alabama Humanities Alliance, featuring conversations with journalists, scholars, and community residents of rural Alabama.

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