Tag: Alabama
Tornadoes, climate change and why Dixie is the new Tornado Alley
Ernest Agee, Purdue University
Tornadoes tore up homes in New Orleans and its suburbs and were reported in communities...
TikTok, #BamaRush and the irresistible allure of mocking Southern accents
Kathryn Cunningham, University of Tennessee
As college students across the country return to campuses grappling with the COVID-19 delta...
Lynching memorial will show that women were victims, too
Evelyn M. Simien, University of Connecticut
A memorial to victims of lynching in the U.S. opens in Alabama on April 26, 2018.
The National Memorial for...
What Doug Jones’s win means for Mitch McConnell, Steve Bannon and...
David C. Barker, American University
Here’s the thing about selling your soul: The devil had better deliver. It’s one thing to be damned; it’s another...
Alabama and #MeToo’s disruptive force
Ashwini Tambe, University of Maryland
Roy Moore’s electoral defeat in Alabama is an important victory for #MeToo.
Let’s recall that the allegations about his preying...
Child marriage is still legal in the US
Nicholas Syrett, University of Kansas
The recent outrage over Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore allegedly targeting teenage girls for sex has elicited reports that...
Black voters won Alabama for the Dems. Here’s what they need...
Sharon Austin, University of Florida
As a scholar of African-American and Southern politics for the last 25 years, I’ve witnessed a lot of election upsets...
How Republican missteps turned Alabama blue
David Hughes, Auburn University at Montgomery
If there was one Republican in Alabama the Democratic Doug Jones could beat, Roy Moore was that Republican....