February is Heart Month, so I believe it would be prudent to share my own experience with heart disease. I was diagnosed with my congenital heart defect mere days after my birth. My parents were preparing...

Several universities across the country, like the University of Arkansas, the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Idaho, have banned TikTok from their campus Wi-Fi networks and government-owned...

History is the study of past events, particularly in human affairs. We all learned about American, European, state and world history as we journeyed through academia. In recent years, however, an important...

One of the most poignant lyrics I’ve heard comes from the poem-turned-song, “Bread and Roses.” It goes, “Yes, it is bread we fight for / but we fight for roses, too.” The poem emerged from...

Hoover City public schools planned on honoring Black History Month this February by inviting award-winning Black author Derrick Barnes to visit three of their elementary schools. But come January, the...

An October 2022 report by the American Psychological Association found that 60% of college students met the criteria for at least one mental health problem. In Alabama, this study found that there was...

Less than a 40-minute drive from Tuscaloosa, almost 700 coal miners have now been on strike for 679 days. Members of United Mine Workers of America District 20 work in mines operated by Warrior Met...

As college students, we spend most of our time thinking about ourselves. In our minds, we are here to get an education and get out into the real world, having fun along the way if possible. However, because...

The latest string of prison strikes within the Alabama Department of Corrections, beginning in late September 2022 and subsiding in mid-October, has reanimated conversations regarding the treatment of...

Since 2020, the U.S. Senate has narrowly favored the Democratic Party, which effectively holds a 51-50 majority by way of independents who caucus with Democrats and Vice President Kamala Harris’ tie-breaking...

"Consent is a pathetic standard of equal sex for a free people." - Catherine Mackinnon, 2016   Disclaimer: In this article, I draw connections between sexual violence and normative heterosexuality...

You’ve heard about the importance of being informed citizens to our region as well as being consumers in a more widespread aspect of the community, maybe statewide or nationwide. Media conglomerates...