More Southern Souls

"This is my first time to run for office. I am a retired school teacher of 37 years and wanted to give back to the...

“A lot of us in this community are not college degree people. We work in the service industry. I worked with horses...

"My mother was 93 when she passed away three years ago. She was a good Christian woman. She came up during the...

"My dad was a month shy of turning, 69. He lived in Miami, where I was born and raised. He caught COVID during the...

“I traveled for a year and stumbled across San Pedro, Guatemala for a weekend. I stayed for almost ten years. I opened...

“I started collecting and crushing cans in the 90s when I worked at the courthouse for the U.S. Marshall Service. We...

"I grew up two roads over. I moved to Covington County for eight years and came back. You can always come home. After...

"I have been cooking since I was 12 years old. My mother was an educator and pushed reading. When I went to the Mobile...

“I am a junior majoring in journalism at Howard University. It is completely online this semester. I love learning and...

"I love kids and knew I wanted a big family. Adoption was always on my heart. I don't know where it came from because...

I turned 85 today. I have worked at this gas station in Buckatunna for more than 30 years.”

"I was born in Detroit but we moved to Mobile. I have been here all of my life. I built Flavor Flav Snowcone Shack so...