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Remembering Alabama education pioneer Dr. Ethel Hall
Dr. Ethel Hall, the first African American woman elected to the Alabama State Board of Education, died this month at age 83. Hall had recounted both her two decades on the Board of Education and her...
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Memoirist Sue Pickett shares an economics lesson, still meaningful
In the current Great Recession, some 8 to 9 percent are officially unemployed; many more—especially among groups such as minorities, the young, those without high school diplomas, those 55 and...
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Jeff Benton compiles Montgomery reading list, recommended books
Jeffrey Benton edits local history titles for NewSouth Books; he is also the author of the newly released Respectable and Disreputable: Leisure Time in Antebellum Montgomery, Alabama. He was inspired...
View ArticleOn MLK’s Holiday, a Few Words About the Poor
Today is the MLK holiday, although in Alabama the adoption of the holiday passed the legislature only by designating it as also being in honor of the birth of Robert E. Lee, who coincidentally shares...
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Anniston, Alabama’s pitfalls, triumphs, told in books
Anniston, Alabama has a storied, sometimes infamous history, including the burning of a Freedom Riders bus in the 1960s and more recently, legal battles over environmental pollution caused by chemical...
View ArticleFrye Gaillard adds Jefferson Cup Honor Book for Go South to Freedom, film...
Award-winning author Frye Gaillard is enjoying a banner year: his book Go South to Freedom has just been named a Jefferson Cup Honor Book for young adult readers by the Virginia Library Association....
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Aileen Kilgore Henderson awarded Druid Arts Award from the Arts Council of...
Aileen Kilgore Henderson is much beloved in artistic and historical circles in Alabama. So we are pleased to see her work celebrated last month by the Arts Council of Tuscaloosa, which awarded her the...
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Author Foster Dickson bridges school borders in the name of sustainability
Foster Dickson is many things: a writer, an English teacher, a Southerner, and a former NewSouth staffer. He’s taught at Booker T. Washington Magnet High School in Montgomery, Alabama, for many years...
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Barry Alexander Brown, Spike Lee team up on movie project based on Bob...
Legendary civil rights activist Bob Zellner gained a loyal cadre of fans after the publication of his award-winning memoir The Wrong Side of Murder Creek in 2011, a book which was recently re-released...
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Inspiring story of Benjamin Sterling Turner shared in new children’s book...
Neither Congresswoman Terri Sewell nor Benjamin Sterling Turner were born in Dallas County, Alabama, but both came to represent the 7th District of Alabama with fervor and dedication. Turner was born a...
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