There comes a day when innovation overrides incumbency and history. That is the story of Robert L. Stewart, the Democratic nominee for Alabama Senate District 23. Stewart defeated Former Senator Hank Sanders, who represented the district for more than three decades. His daughter, Malika Sanders-Fortier, has represented the district for…

What is happening in Greene County, Alabama? Emergency medical services in Greene County, Alabama, are on life support. The Greene County Emergency Management Services (GCEMS) provides ambulance services throughout the entire county, responding, treating, and transporting people as necessary. …

One of my first introductions to Martin Luther King, Jr., was when my adolescent eyes watched Our Friend, Martin (1999) for the first time. It was an animated, educational film with the stellar cast of Angela Bassett, LeVar Burton, Whoopi Goldberg, Samuel L. Jackson, James Earl Jones, Oprah Winfrey, and…

Alabama’s connection to Juneteenth runs about 86-feet long and 23-feet wide: the size of the last known ship (the schooner Clotilda) to strip Africans from their homes, package them like cargo, and embark them to the shores of the state’s Mobile Bay — a year before the start of the…

The Alabama legislative session has ended, sine die, but the work is far from over. One particular legislative project the Alabama State Legislature indulged this session was on the question of a state-sanctioned vegetable. The sweet potato is our “official” state vegetable. Alabama is the sixth largest sweet potato producing…

In his debut memoir, Shaking the Gates of Hell, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist John Archibald subpoenas a piercing indictment on southern Christian culture. …

Principalities in high places summoned my presence as I waited to hear whether the jury’s verdict would convict Derek Chauvin for murdering George Floyd on May 25, 2020. Memories of judicial defeat and disappointment consumed my soul. My senses struggled to fathom a verdict affirming the value of Black life…

Have you ever attended a Black Baptist church in rural Alabama for Resurrection Sunday (Easter) before? Since I was a little boy, my mother and I would travel from the Birmingham suburbia and go “back home,” where my grandparents live, joining relatives at a little country church for Resurrection Sunday…

Our nation is suffering from a crisis of accountability. We would rather blame somebody else than accept responsibility for our own actions. We love telling a story that benefits us rather than exposing the truth. As a child, my parents would discipline me if I “told a story.” To tell…