L.A.'s Homeboy Industries has been nationally recognized for its successful gang intervention programs. Now, a recent multimedia project by the Los A...
Richard Allen Smith | Posted 12.14.2009 | Sports
We have endured poverty, with over 60% percent of Alabama children going hungry at some point during 2008. We have also endured failure in the realm of college football.
Politico | Nia-Malika Henderson & Jonathan Martin | Posted 12.10.2009 | Politics
After last year's historic presidential campaign, a new season of opportunity seemed at hand for African-American candidates in the South. Not only ha...
Max Fraad Wolff | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business
Despite the excitement over the stock markets, credit markets remain ground zero. They are where defaults destroy fortunes but they are also crucial to US industrial growth.
Huffington Post | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green
Following our slide show of the best places to go for autumn leaves, readers sent in their favorite photos of fall foliage. From Michigan to New Hamp...
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics
A woman whose name we all know was a proud Red, a committed Socialist, and an unapologetic Wobbly. And now she's not only buried in the National Cathedral, she's got her own statue in the Capitol.
The Associated Press | Posted 10.05.2009 | Home
ALBERTVILLE, Ala. (AP)-- An Alabama woman has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child after police say she let her daughter ride in a car...
AP | PHILLIP RAWLS | Posted 10.05.2009 | Home
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Herman Thomas had an enviable political record as a black Democrat elected and re-elected in a county overwhelmingly white an...
The Associated Press | LUCAS L. JOHNSON II | Posted 12.03.2009 | Home
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP)- A mother whose newborn was kidnapped by a knife-wielding woman posing as an immigration agent was briefly reunited with her bab...
AP | GREG BLUESTEIN | Posted 11.21.2009 | Home
ATLANTA — Surging floodwaters ripped apart a west Georgia trailer home, drowning a 2-year-old boy swept from his father's arms. In Atlanta, stra...
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics
The code words change over time (from "nullification" to "states' rights" to Pawlenty's "state sovereignty"), but the idea is the same -- we retain the right to ignore any laws we don't feel like following.
Lester Sloan | Posted 09.30.2009 | Living
While the old Packard is an image of urban decay, it has nothing to do with the demise of the auto industry as we know it today.
nytimes.com | SHAILA DEWAN | Posted 09.29.2009 | Green
Almost every day, a train pulls into a rail yard in rural Alabama, hauling 8,500 tons of a disaster that occurred 350 miles away to a final resting pl...
Pam Bristow | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living
We realized that a simple drive across a simple place, rummaging through junk with someone you love is just as good (if not better) than a week at any of the five star resorts.
Brad Friedman | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics
How it's even possible that former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman's bribery case and conviction has not long ago been dropped by the Dept. of Justice is beyond us.
Eric Alterman | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics
The position of many health reform opponents in Congress is that America has "the finest health care in the world now." I decided to look at just how well we are doing health care wise.
Mary Ann West | Posted 07.26.2009 | Style
With the 4-1-4 college calendar, most students envision an interim semester in Europe or other exotic locations. But in a free-falling economy, four arts students chose to chase the perfect BBQ.
Chris Weigant | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics
In all the hoopla over Judge Sonia Sotomayor being nominated to the Supreme Court, there is one interesting side story that the media is largely ignor...
Craig "Meathead" Goldwyn | Posted 06.21.2009 | Style
Barbecue has evolved along disparate paths around the nation, led down these trails by the racial and ethnic immigrants who settled there. Indeed, barbecue sauce is a cultural phenomenon.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 04.13.2009 | Politics
We have yet to hear a single realistic scenario from a top Republican that would outline how and when the country could move forward from its current meltdown.
Paul Helmke | Posted 04.12.2009 | Politics
Even by the standards of the Conservative Political Action Committee event where he recently spoke, the NRA's Wayne LaPierre was over the top.
AP | JAY REEVES | Posted 04.11.2009 | Style
GOOD HOPE, Ala. — It's one thing for a church in a big city like Dallas or Atlanta to tackle the ticklish topic of sex. It blends in with the ur...
AP | JESSICA GRESKO and DESIREE HUNTER | Posted 04.10.2009 | Home
SAMSON, Ala. — The gunman who killed 10 people and committed suicide in a rampage across the Alabama countryside had struggled to keep a job and...
George Alexander | Posted 04.09.2009 | Entertainment
This weekend, for the first time, I saw Charles exude the characteristics of a man, who with careful and continued personal development, introspection and maturity, might emerge as a role model.
Don Siegelman | Posted 04.07.2009 | Politics
While the court threw out two counts of my politically-motivated prosecution and conviction, it upheld several others and have sent the case back to the district court for re-sentencing.
Posted 12.17.2009 | Impact