During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, Nancy Sylvester watched with growing concern as child care centers around her own center in Jackson, Miss. […]
Author: Anna Claire Vollers
After its rural hospital closed, this community tried a new approach to healthcare
The only hospital in rural Pickens County, Ala., closed its doors for good just two weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. It was March 2020. The west Alabama county sits […]
Young Southerners create their own ‘magical community’ in rural Alabama town
Sarah Cole, 32, is relaxing on the front porch swing with her partner, Robert Fitzpatrick, when her phone buzzes. It’s a text from their friend, Tim Higgins, inviting them over. Tim […]
Georgia factory worker, fired after miscarriage scare, sues employer
Seven days after Georgia mom Kaytiara McAlister learned she was pregnant, that pregnancy cost her job, according to a new federal lawsuit.. McAlister claims she was fired from her job at a manufacturing center […]
‘Come to church, we have the best sex’
John Paul Basham remembers, when he was a teenager, participating in a sexual abstinence program called True Love Waits at his Southern Baptist church in Hoover, Ala. in the late 1990s. In […]
Looking for Alabama’s elected Republican women
Terri Collins was a North Alabama banker with no political experience when the state GOP leadership came calling. Click here to read the rest of the story at ReckonSouth.com.
Working parents find few solutions as school looms
Every time Priscilla and Ellery Curtis begin talking about what to do about school in a few weeks for their two children, the discussion grinds […]
Half of Alabama’s daycares are still closed.
Every two weeks, Melissa Moody draws a little more money from her personal savings and puts it into the day care she’s been operating in […]
Police use questionable claims of antifa, looting to justify tear gassing protesters
The threat of antifa and a claim of $12 million in damage to an Alabama Power office building during a Birmingham protest were among the […]
Daycares can reopen but will parents return?
Alabama day cares can open if they keep fewer than 12 kids to a classroom, according to Gov. Kay Ivey’s “safer at home” order, announced […]