I was only 7 years old when the “lunch counter sit-ins” began to happen all over the South, and I remember it well.
America’s labor force participation rate has fallen for two decades, with large drops during the Great Recession and COVID-19 pandemic. Alabama’s rate trails the national average, potentially hamstringing our economy.
Earlier this morning, I was on a radio show. The host drilled me with loaded questions. It was a disaster. I was supposed to be plugging my new book, instead the host was asking slanted questions about hot-button, divisive topics.
Parents need to take control of what is being taught in schools and not let the "professionals" fill their kids' minds with a bunch of garbage.
Let me explain why and what would be at stake if the Justice Department had been allowed to get away with beating up Eagle Forum.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Stephanie Holden Smith on Midday Mobile with Sean Sullivan as they discuss the fact that the CDC has no power to mandate but to merely recommend, the conflicts of interest of CDC officials making recommendations and the attorneys general letter to the CDC asking them to not treat children as guinea pigs.
Alabama's fourth and eighth-grade mathematics scores have lacked improvement since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, a report shows.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Amie Beth Shaver on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss social media censorship and the awakening that parents experienced after COVID lockdowns allowed them to see what their children were being taught.
Among the greatest gifts Frederick Douglass gave Americans during his life and today was to make us understand the truth about how elite Democrat slave plantation owners were exploiting black Americans.
State Sen. Garlan Gudger (R-Cullman) said that a portion of the record surplus should be used to pay off existing state debt and the remainder to “create a savings account.”
We will not hand our culture over to queer theorists and gender Marxists.
Listen to 1819 News Reporter Will Blakely on The Jeff Poor Show as they discuss the recently released NAEP scores and a ranking of Alabama cities based on a cost of living/crime rate ratio.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Stephanie Holden Smith on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss the CDC's addition of the COVID jabs to the childhood vaccine schedule (which doesn't apply to Alabama), how the state health officer is appointed by a lobbying group, and how the state's regressive grocery tax needs to be repealed.
The CDC cannot require children to get vaccinations to attend school.
Do Alabama’s legislators and lobbyists have it too good?
Legally, ethically, mentally and morally, the Biden student loan bailout is a bad idea fraught with negative second and third-order effects. It cannot go forward, and all necessary action should be taken to stop it.
The convoluted language that is supposed to “inform” voters has gone too far.
Take time to enjoy the opportunities to see the joy in the little imperfections that we call life.
This week, my wife and I visited the Callahan School for the Deaf & Blind with our dog. We were running late. Our vehicle squealed into the parking lot on two wheels.
Listen to 1819 News CEO Bryan Dawson on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss the Dominion tabulator SD cards in a New Mexico county that have been seized as evidence after an audit produced discrepancies, and they questioned why such audits shouldn't be much more common.
This “S” is the most subjective of an already subjective criteria and ranks companies based on how well they comply with several key progressive and political priorities.
Something must be in the air. It’s not just the cold weather and the flu. It’s the virus of bad advice, and it’s coming from the CDC and Freedom from Religion Foundation.
Election Day 2022 is now less than three weeks away. And while the focus for many voters may be on races for governor, U.S. Senate and the Alabama Legislature, there are also 10 constitutional amendments and a vote on the revised Constitution of Alabama 2022 that will appear on the ballot.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Stephanie Holden Smith on Midday Mobile with Sean Sullivan as they discuss Club for Growth ratings and the feminist notion that men and women are the exact same thing.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Amie Beth Shaver on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss former Alabama Governor John Patterson, a hero with flaws who had the courage to admit he was wrong.
We should be exceedingly grateful to have Frederick Douglass’ point of view, philosophy and literary legacy about liberty to help us understand and expose the tyrannical methods Marxists use to enslave us.
John Malcolm Patterson, son of Albert Love Patterson, stepped to the plate. He ran into a battle he didn't start.