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On this edition of the show UA TCF Professor and renowned communications researcher Andrew Billings talked about the lower than expected Super Bowl ratings, NBC’s commitment to the Olympic Games and the rise of Fox Sports 1:

Dr. Ellen Spears is a assistant professor in New College and the Department of American Studies at the University of Alabama. She is also instrumental in publicizing a exhibit of photographs of the Scottsboro Boys at the Paul R. Jones Gallery of Art in downtown Tuscaloosa. They are on display until Feb. 21:

UA student researcher Benjamin Flax came on the show to discuss his research on the University’s slave holding past: