Theresa’s loyalty is legendary, a testament to the authenticity of her love for her husband. “I loved that man… he was my soulmate forever,” she recalls. Despite the "ups and downs and around and around," love was enough.

I was literally trapped in Montgomery, Alabama, when the Twin Towers fell. I was overcome with such helpless devastation, loss, and grief that I couldn’t breathe. In Alabama, that feeling of being trapped—of having the air of freedom taken from you—is often the only "justice," "fairness," and "equality" offered to those buried in the system. As a line from Pearl Cleage’s Blues for an Alabama Sky reminds us: "Alabama is not just a state; it’s a state of mind."

Deputy Clerk for Information Technology, Sharon Steidel, and key staff members shared the upgrades to the Legislative Information System (LIS) on January 6th, just in time for the start of the General Assembly on January 14th. The primary goal of these 2026 session website updates is to streamline the tracking of the General Assembly by making the site more intuitive and reducing the number of manual steps for users. This review summarizes the key upgrades and structural impr

On January 3, a powerful conversation took center stage at the Wesley Memorial Baptist Church in Richmond, VA. Angela White, founder of House of Dreams ReEntry and the newly launched Restorative Identity Lab, hosted a community screening of the ACLU's vital documentary: Injustice: The Hidden Crisis in Virginia Prisons. The event drew more than 20 dedicated community advocates, organizational partners, and family members of those currently navigating the Virginia Department o

An acquaintance of mine lent me her brain the other day. She lends it to me from time to time so that I can think from a woman's perspective. And you know what happens when a guy like me has that kind of power in his hands, the days that follow allows him to acquire even more insights into how stupid he's being. So after a little course correction, I returned the brain that was on loan and came away better for it. As I draw closer to my third parole hearing, my thoughts turn