Culture

By Carol Robinson Today is a new beginning for a Trinity Richards and her family. One year ago – on April 15, 2023 – Trinity was at her friend’s Sweet 16 birthday party when gunfire erupted inside a small […]

By Roy S. Johnson This is an opinion column. I want a hype mama. I need a hype mama. A bold, sequenced-up, God-lovin’, yeah-that’s-my boy hype mama. Yeah, that’s right, craft that sentence! Amplify those adjectives! Spin-move that […]

By Haley Laurence Seven-year-old Emouree Johnson knew there were four lemons in the Scottsboro kitchen she shared with her grandmother, Jennifer Bordner, so when she got off the school bus one afternoon, she went straight to […]

By Kayode Crown A group concerned with the fate of the ducks at Big Spring Park in Huntsville met with the city last month and secured three ramps to let tiny ducklings move in and out […]

By Lawrence Specker Ty’Esha Lashay’s audition on “American Idol” made her one of at least seven Alabama singers headed for the show’s Hollywood Round, but it left some unanswered questions. The March 24 episode featured just a snippet […]

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. […]