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Story and photo credits by Greg Miley, Speakin’ Out News photographers The Huntsville Beautification Board held is 2023 awards ceremony on Friday, September 1, 2023, 9:00 a.m. The event was held at Oakwood University’s Community […]

By Kyle Whitmire, 2023 Pulitzer Prize winner in Commentary Journalist This is an opinion column. Give state Rep. Chris Pringle a little credit. The Republican lawmaker from Mobile tried to do what he thought was […]

PRESS RELEASE Huntsville/Madison County – Commissioner Violet Edwards hosted White House dignitaries for a Wednesday roundtable discussion on broadband access. Mitch Landrieu, Senior Advisor to President Biden and White House Infrastructure Coordinator, and Alan Davidson, […]

AAMU PUBLIC RELATIONS Alabama A&M University welcomed the Class of 2027 at the annual Freshman Convocation and Torch Lighting ceremony Saturday. The largest incoming class in the University’s history consists of over 2,000 students. Keynote […]

By Cody D. Short A project called, ‘10 Million Names’, will work to uncover the names of ten million people of African decent who were enslaved during the 1500s until 1865, in the United States. […]

By Amy Yurkanin  Chelsea Stewart waited on the bench of a north Alabama court in early 2019, holding tight to the big news she hoped might get her out of trouble. Gadsden police had caught Stewart, […]

By Mike Cason The Republican majority in the Alabama Legislature approved a new Congressional district map on Friday, the deadline set by a federal court that ruled the old map likely violated the Voting Rights Act. […]

By Roy S. Johnson This is an opinion column. The kid needed to go to the bathroom. He didn’t care that he and his grandfather were on the steps outside of the U.S. Supreme Court in […]

By John Sharp, al.com (LEFT-RIGHT): Meg McCrummen Fowler, director of the History Museum of Mobile, and Mobile County Commissioner Merceria Ludgood speaks during a dedication of the new Africatown Heritage House and “Clotilda: The Exhibition” […]

By Roy S. Johnson The Supreme Court’s ruling declaring race can no longer be used as a criterion for college admissions was a “shot across the bow, man,” says Charles Barkley. Upon hearing the news on Thursday, the […]