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The Crimson White


Serving The University of Alabama since 1894.

The Crimson White
Serving The University of Alabama since 1894.

The Crimson White

Kaddyja Jallow

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The ‘New Normal’ is going to take time to get used to. Just ask these students.

The ‘New Normal’ is going to take time to get used to. Just ask these students.

Kaddyja Jallow, Contributing Writer • November 4, 2020

First came social gatherings. Then came game days and spring break. Nearly three months into the fall semester, some students are struggling to adjust to not-so-new restrictions. The transition has...

In the upper left, Chadwick Boseman performs opposite Dianne Kirksey-Floyd in a 2002 production of "Urban Transition: Loose Blossoms." In the upper right, Kirksey-Floyd is pictured with her son, Malcolm-Wiley Floyd. In the bottom left, Dianne poses with her son and her mother, Gladys Moore Kirksey. Photos courtesy of the Kirksey family.

First Black Bama Belle leaves behind an impactful legacy

Kaddyja Jallow, Contributing Writer • September 13, 2020

Born in Eutaw, Alabama, in 1950, Dianne Kirksey-Floyd grew up in the middle of the Civil Rights Movement – a time plagued by discrimination and segregation against Black people. Cognizant of and undeterred...