Culture

By Mary Colurso Five singers from Alabama are competing on “The Voice” during Season 25, and we’re ready to cheer for all of them. These talented and ambitious vocalists aced their Blind Auditions on the NBC reality series and now […]

By Greg Garrison In the early 1980s, Willie J. Perry drove around Birmingham in a 1971 Ford Thunderbird painted with the slogan, “Rescue Ship,” looking for people who ran out of gas, had a flat tire or needed […]

By Margaret Kates Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin is expecting his first child with wife Kendra Woodfin, he announced on Facebook Sunday. “Kendra, LOVE is beautiful! LOVE is all we need!” Woodfin captioned a photo of the couple, with […]

By Mary Colurso  Ali Mims is the new Miss Alabama’s Teen. The 16-year-old from Shelby County was crowned on Sunday at Thompson High School in Alabaster. She competed as Miss Hoover’s Teen, besting 37 other contestants for the state title. […]

By Tandra Smith George Robert Langford, former Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Birmingham office, and most well known for reopening the case of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in the 1990s, has died. […]

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 […]