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Community celebrations are powerful

It was truly a celebration; a beautiful celebration; a powerful celebration; a moving celebration.

Opinion

It was a bad week for state of Alabama

It was a bad week for Alabama. It was a bad week for education. It was a bad ...

Columnists

Continuing tradition of weekly columns

Fifteen hundred straight Senate Sketches. Fifteen hundred straight weeks. If I say so myself, that’s an achievement. That’s ...

Columnists

Why I fought for local minimum wage

Minimum wage! Minimum wage! Minimum wage! I know minimum wage firsthand. I shared a little bit of my ...

Columnists

What will legislative session mean for Alabama?

What will this 2016 Regular Legislative Session mean for the people of Alabama? This is a question ...

Columnists

Facts do not stand chance in face of fear

Facts don’t stand a chance in the face of fear. Fear just bowls over facts like a ...

Columnists

Speaking at Martin Luther King celebration

I looked out over the large audience. I knew so many of the faces. My brother and sister ...

Columnists

Is democracy dying in the United States?

Is democracy dying on the vines in these United States of America? There are some pervasive signs. My ...

Columnists

Martin Luther King Jr. Day breakfast honors legacy and those committed to it

A Selma tradition will continue Monday with the Links, Incorporated’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Unity Breakfast. ...

Columnists

We all serve as teachers to those around us

Teachers must be healers. My dear wife woke up one morning last week with this thought ringing in ...

Columnists

Story behind Watch Night and why we celebrate

Watch night! Watch night! Watch night! We hear this phrase over and over as the year draws to ...

Columnists

Christmas shopping spree gives back

It was a Christmas shopping spree. But it was not the usual Christmas shopping spree. This shopping spree ...

Columnists

Remember, it’s not your birthday

It’s not your birthday. It’s not your children’s birthday. It’s not your friends’ birthday. It’s not your co-workers’ ...

Columnists

Terror causes us to make poor choices

I was terrified. But I learned powerful lessons. I not only learned that terror is extremely powerful, but ...

Columnists

We must use history to heal our country

The contrasts were great. Non-violence taught but violence implemented. History of violence shunned but current violence shared widely. ...

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