When people hear the term “horse racing”, one of the first things they think of is the Kentucky Derby! But did you know that the first winner of the Kentucky Derby was African American? In […]
Nationwide — Courtney Edwards, a 34-year-old mother of three from Montgomery, Alabama, reportedly died after being sucked into the engine of a passenger plane while working at Montgomery Regional Airport. Edwards was working as a ramp […]
By Leada Gore Six years after an assassin cut down Rev. Martin Luther King, a man walked into Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta and killed the late civil rights leader’s mother as she played the organ […]
By Howard Koplowitz A Pelham middle school teacher and wrestling coach who also doubled as the youth director of a McCalla church was arrested and jailed Wednesday on child porn charge. Adam Jeremy Lewis, an eighth […]
By John Archibald This is an opinion column. Leola Harris is 71 years old, and has spent more than a quarter of that in Alabama’s Tutwiler Prison. She’s in a wheelchair now, dependent on dialysis, […]
Roy S. Johnson This is an opinion column. Maybe now they’ll see. See Selma. Finally. Maybe now they’ll do. Do what should have been done a long time ago to restore one of our state’s historic […]
By Leada Gore Tax season officially starts today with the Internal Revenue Service accepting 2022 returns. And while digitally filed returns that use direct deposit can generally expect refunds within 21 days, a segment of filers […]
By Cameron Smith This is an opinion column. Deport everyone in the country who is here without legal status. It sounds easy enough. Finish the wall. Again, it’s a clear idea. Why is it so hard […]
By William Thornton Stella Stephens Glover, a Paul Mitchell cosmetology school instructor, died earlier this month waiting for a heart transplant after battling the effects of COVID-19 for almost three years. Glover, of Sumiton, died Jan. 11. She […]
By John Archibald This is an opinion column. I had this Bible Belt thing all wrong. I used to think it was just a swath of Southern land where churches outnumbered liquor stores, where people read […]
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