Jones, Alabama’s new poet laureate, has Black Belt roots
by: Casey Roberts Ashley M. Jones, of Birmingham, has been named poet laureate of Alabama. Poet laureate is an unpaid, four-year position... Read More
Making History: Women work to get their Black Belt hometown to fully vaccinated
by: Casey Roberts Dorothy Oliver and Drucilla Russ-Jackson made history this past year in their community of Panola, Alabama, when they successfully... Read More
Alumnae organization works to keep Judson items together at latest sale
Though there was little warning beforehand, Judson College let alumnae know last week that a sale of antiques from the campus would... Read More
Archives from the Negro Leader are a window into 1910s African-American life in the Black Belt
The Negro Leader, founded Oct. 1909 in Uniontown, wasn’t the first African-American owned publication in the Black Belt, or even in Perry... Read More
UNSUNG: Horace Sprott, Black Belt native, was toast of 50s folk scene
by: John Allan Clark When I first came across the name Horace Sprott, it wasn’t on a monument on the courthouse square or... Read More