Culture

By Mark Inabinett In a feature for the New England Patriots’ website after his first season with the NFL team, defensive tackle Christian Barmore said his favorite football memory was walking onto the field with his mother for Senior Day […]

By Cody D. Short The cast of the popular 1980s and ‘90s NBC sitcom “A Different World” is coming to Alabama during a tour that’s hitting historically Black college and university campuses. The cast members […]

By Michael Dumas When Taylor Nicks found out she’d been chosen to be the queen of the Mobile Mardi Gras Association for 2024, one of the things she began looking forward to the most was spending […]

By Cody D. Short Author LaDarrion Williams, originally from Helena, is making his mark with his first fantasy book called, “Blood at the Root.” Williams wrote a post on Facebook that has more than 12,000 shares and 6,000 […]

By Matt Wake He’s covered everything from deadly north Alabama tornadoes to Luke Skywalker. Along the way, Jerry Hayes has won multiple regional Emmy Awards and been nominated at least a dozen times. Now, Hayes, the longtime […]

By Warren Kulo  The New York Times’ list of the “52 Places to Go in 2024″ includes a number of the usual suspects: Paris, Maui, Singapore, Geneva and the Caribbean. But mixed in among those exotic […]

By Mary Colurso Miss Alabama 2023, Brianna Burrell, is gorgeous in green. Need proof? No problem. Just look at Burrell modeling her Miss America wardrobe in the photo gallery at the top of this post, and you’ll see that she’s […]

By Cody D. Short Stefan Smith of Tuskegee won the ultimate prize of a Mercedes Benz on ‘The Price Is Right’ just before Christmas in December. “Not in 100 years did I think I would win,” […]

By Kayode Crown Hundreds gathered Sunday at Railroad Park in Birmingham in support of Palestine, calling for a cease-fire in the war between Hamas and Israel. Laith Mekdad, a Birmingham resident, said every day he wakes […]