John Archibald

1 week ago | al.com | John Archibald

This is an opinion column. Lowndes County is a place of haunting beauty, where you can see stars at night and endless loblolly pines by day. It’ll make your heart hurt, if you have one. But now Lowndes, according to the body that continues to call itself the U.S. Justice Department, is a poster child for all the sins of environmental justice and DEI. Because America doesn’t do irony anymore.

2 weeks ago | northwestgeorgianews.com | John Archibald

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2 weeks ago | al.com | John Archibald

This is an opinion column. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the way a single reasonable or courageous or simply unexpected voice can change minds. Or maybe nations. You may remember Alabama Sen. Howell Heflin for that Foghorn Leghorn drawl of his – as channeled by Chris Farley on SNL. That was a live one. Or maybe you remember him pulling womens’ undergarments out of his pocket in an ostensible attempt to blow his nose.

3 weeks ago | al.com | John Archibald

This is an opinion column. Alabama has about 12,000 churches. It’s a lot. It has about 1,500 public schools. Which – gimme a second, I learned math from a football coach – comes to about eight churches for every public school. That makes sense. People don’t have to agree on what 2-plus-2 is, or what a gerund might be, or when Charles Darwin discovered America. But folks are particular about religion. They have different ideas on whether there is a god, what he or she looks like or wants from them.

1 month ago | al.com | John Archibald

This is an opinion column. If you have images in your head of Bloody Sunday in Selma, or the Selma-to-Montgomery march that ended at the State Capitol on this day 60 years ago, there’s a good chance they were formed through the lens of Spider Martin. One photograph in particular is seared in my brain. Not the men or women bleeding, scattering to avoid billy clubs or whips. Not the funerals. Not the fog of tear gas. Not the Rev.