The sticker price for Alabama’s mega-prison is a shocking $1.2 billion. Maybe that’s how much it costs to address decades of inflicting human suffering. By Josh Moon The Alabama Department…
View More Opinion | Maybe $1.2 billion for a prison is just the start of our penance
By Carol Gundlach A new law will make underinvestment in Alabama schools even worse. Many Alabamians think of public education as a natural part of growing up and of community…
View More Opinion | CHOOSE Act will further hurt Alabama’s public schools
Story by Raynard Jackson (ThyBlackMan.com) Once again, Black media has proven how irrelevant they have become in 2024. When I say Black media, I am referring specifically to radio, TV, and newspapers.…
View More Black Media Continues to Show Their Irrelevance.
We have all heard the expression “They are all like” when we have been talking to people about voting. To some extent, this is true, yet in a wider range…
View More We Are Different Yet We Are So Much Alike
Protecting the Secret Ballot in an Era of Transparency and Political Tension The idea of a secret ballot and keeping your vote private has been around for a long time.…
View More Thoughts from John H Merrill: Protecting the Secret Ballot
By Kenneth Sullivan (All Scriptures in the article came from the New King James Version of the Holy Bible). In the United States, the First Amendment of the Bill of…
View More HOW CHRISTIANS SHOULD USE THEIR FREEDOM OF RELIGION
By Rev. Curtis E. Gatewood I made it my business to watch much of the Republican National Convention (RNC) in its entirety to get a full analysis without having to…
View More A TRUTHFUL Summary of the Trump Convention
By Chance Phillips The latest SPLC annual report identified 20 hate and antigovernment extremist groups active in Alabama and hundreds of hateful incidents. On June 4, the Southern Poverty Law…
View More Record number of hate groups were active in 2023: SPLC report
By Josh Moon For a long time now in Alabama, we have let ignorance be our guide. The bill has been steep. Ignorance is expensive. Just take a look around…
View More Opinion | The price of ignorance
By Kenneth Sullivan According to www.britannica.com/topic/Juneteenth, On June 19, 1865, Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, to announce that two years ago, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation to…
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