The silence was deafening. Jenna Jackson and her fellow chess teammates had suddenly transformed from a bunch of kids milling around to serious players debating their every move. Jackson, a seventh grader...

The term “business casual” is one that I have fought with for as long as I can remember. I have been told to “basically be dressed up, but not too dressed up.” That may sound simple, but when it...

The weekend football scene in Tuscaloosa, especially on the day that the Tide plays the LSU Tigers, would be incomplete without a fair amount of Rotel, smack-talk and live music. Teenage Daddy, a Birmingham-based...

When Julia Whitten walks into the Ferguson Center to eat lunch, she does not join the long line of students waiting for Chick-fil-A or Subway. Instead, she fixes a salad or grabs vegan noodles from the...

A seventh-generation Southerner and descendant of a slave owner, Margaret Wrinkle was born into the “racially charged” year of 1963, just on the cusp of the civil rights movement, and said she feels...

Claire Siepser scribbles rough sketches of ideas that inconveniently pop into her head, reaching for a napkin, receipt or any available surface she can find while driving, shopping or doing anything far...