Faith and Culture — Page 85

Everyone is beautiful and unique, in their own special way. That’s the message Alabama Power Service Organization (APSO) members are sharing through a colorful painting they created for Glenwood, inscribed with the slogan “You are Beautiful.” During APSO’s Jan. 29-31 convention in Birmingham, members took part in dual service projects. Several APSO volunteers applied loving touches to a […]

It seems perfectly logical that the child of a Green Beret and an educator would grow up to have a career fighting discrimination in education. That couple’s daughter, Taffye Benson Clayton, was hired in 2016 by Auburn University as the first leader of its Office of Inclusion and Diversity, based on her successes at the University of North Carolina and East […]

When art, schools and the community get together, lasting partnerships are formed. In Selma, such a partnership is ongoing as students from R.B. Hudson STEAM (science, technology, engineering, the arts and math) Academy are taking part in an art project aimed at creating a new and attractive space for the community.

A new monument has been unveiled in Ozark, Alabama, that honors the men from the Wiregrass region of Alabama who died serving their country in the Vietnam War. According to a report from WTVY the 50 men from Dale, Coffee, Geneva and Houston counties who perished serving the country in Vietnam will be forever memorialized […]

Limbaugh is a fighter, he has overcome and succeeded in the face of controversy, industry headwinds and direct targeting of him by adversaries, politicians and the most powerful media conglomerates in the history of the world

One of the men honored during the coin flip before Sunday's NFL Super Bowl was retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Charles McGee, a Tuskegee Airman.

For 24 years, Alabama Power engineers have led an Explorers program in which they provide hands-on learning opportunities for high school students...

For kids and adults who are rarely in the limelight, victory was sweet as they splashed across the finish line at the natatorium in the Birmingham Crossplex. On Jan. 24, 160 athletes and their unified partners — family members, relatives and friends — competed in the Special Olympics Alabama Birmingham Swim sectional. Special Olympics is […]

As an officer for the Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles’ Anniston Field Office, Donnelle Thompson is helping keep residents of Calhoun County safe. Officer Donnelle Thompson has charted a course of positive influence over her career. She was a police officer in Piedmont, retired as a federal probation officer, and taught criminal justice classes […]

Growing up in Tallapoosa County’s Eagle Creek, Scotty McKelvey was naturally drawn to playing outside. He loved it so much as a kid, he turned it into a...

Grace Richardson, a University of South Alabama freshman, has won a Girl Scout Gold Award for the art work and environmental advocacy she combined...

For the staff at Alabama’s Environmental Studies Center (ESC), one mission stands above all: to help others love nature as much as they do. “I have been here for 26 years,” said Susan Clement, a biologist at ESC. “I still love it as much as the first day I started.” The ESC is a natural sciences […]

Curtis Cooper on Thursday drained four shots in 24 seconds that triggered a $10,000 donation to Huntsville Inner City Learning.

You can vote for the Cook Museum of Natural Science in Decatur to be named the nation's "best new museum."

The Huntsville-Madison County Veterans Memorial, a park on the north side of Huntsville’s downtown area, will be adding a monument to gold star families in 2020. Gold Star families are those who have lost a member during service in the United States Armed Forces. The monument is the final planned addition to the veterans memorial, […]

Speaking on Holocaust Remembrance Day, Auburn basketball coach Bruce Pearl lauded the religious freedom he enjoys living in the state of Alabama.

Former University of Alabama star quarterback Jalen Hurts is still the same person that Crimson Tide fans have grown to love.

President Donald Trump on Friday became the first sitting president in history to address the March for Life in Washington, D.C. ...

In what might go down as one of his most raw public moments in memory, Nick Saban joyously reunited with his former star quarterback, Jalen Hurts.

Congressman Robert Aderholt (AL-04) recently spoke on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives about his staunch pro-life views.

Speaking to Yellowhammer News during Senior Bowl Week Media Day, outgoing University of Alabama defender Terrell Lewis discussed how important his faith...

Jalen Hurts on being back in Alabama: ""It's been pretty hectic so far -- in a good way. Just being back here, a lot of love. ... That's special to me."

MONTGOMERY — The city of Montgomery, which hosted Martin Luther King, Jr. for multiple famous speeches, braved the cold and came out in force to celebrate America’s most famous civil rights hero. The two main events in Alabama’s capital city were a morning service at the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, a venue where […]

Matt Pierce has served our country his entire adult life. Now, this American hero from Alabama needs our help.