Back in 2004, a blind teenager from North Carolina sprinted down the 130-foot runway inside the Athens Olympic stadium in Greece, the birthplace of the ancient Olympic games and where the first modern games was hosted in 1896. The magnitude of the moment didn’t overcome the 19-year-old who was competing [...]
As climate change heats up our oceans, hurricanes will get stronger and more destructive. That’s bad news for everyone living on the Gulf and Atlantic coasts. But it’s especially bad for the millions of low-income people who lack the resources to evacuate, properly prepare or recover. This year, the National [...]
Six years ago, Bryan Fuenmayor’s family disowned him. He came out as gay at 31, spurring his departure from the Jehovah Witnesses and the loss of his family and most of the friends he’d made since coming from Venezuela as a child. “It got a point where it was either [...]
Over the last few months, you’ve probably read about the latest political brawl in the never ending culture wars: Critical Race Theory. It’s a complicated concept that largely explores how race and racism is experienced in the U.S. and how it intertwines with the functions of society. One of the [...]
Should you rent or buy? That question has become increasingly difficult to answer over the last year as home prices have soared and rents in major metropolitan areas tumbled as residents escaped strict pandemic lockdowns. In all 50 of the country’s largest metropolitan areas, the monthly cost of renting is [...]
When Champagne Munroe wanted to try drag back in July 2014, she turned up at B-Bob’s bar in downtown Mobile with a few old Halloween costumes, a little makeup, and a promise to herself to get on stage and have fun. “When I first started coming up, being gay and [...]
John Boyd, a fourth-generation farmer from Virginia, bought his first farm at age 18 and quickly lost it after falling behind on mortgage payments and the federal government denied him several loans he needed to catch up. “It’s tough for all farmers, but when you throw in discrimination and racism [...]
Dozens of symbols celebrating the Confederacy remain at U.S military installations throughout the South, according to a report released Wednesday by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The report noted that an additional 64 memorials had been added to the SPLC’s military section of its Confederate symbol database, adding to the [...]
A little under a year ago, near the remnants of an 18th century colonial fort and not far from where ships exported cotton that funded the Confederates in the Civil War, a line of Mobile police officers came face to face with Black Lives Matter activists. Among the protestors was [...]
In Northwest Arkansas, close to the state borders with Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri, a cultural metamorphosis has been taking place over the last 30 years. Nearly 40% of the residents in the small city of Springdale, once an overwhelmingly white city back in 1990, can trace their heritage to a [...]
