Rebecca Griesbach is based in her hometown of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where Nikole Hannah Jones' investigation on school resegregation sparked her passion for journalism. As a graduate student in gender and race studies, she spends most of her time writing about spatial politics, critical journalism and education equity. Her words and photos have made national appearances in Chalkbeat, ProPublica and The New York Times, as well as in local publications such as The Tuscaloosa News, Mosaic Magazine, The Tri-State Defender and The Crimson White.
I’ve felt like my life was in crisis a number of times.
As someone who was dubbed “Messy Becky” six hours before her first 8 a.m. class of her college career, I’ve had my share of freshman faux...
The University of Alabama’s Anderson Society is hosting a virtual fundraising drive benefitting local organization, Alabama REACH, in lieu of its biannual service project.
“While we are disappointed...
For the first 27 years of Ken Ozello’s 30-year career as a UA band director, uniforms and instruments for the Million Dollar Band (MDB) were usually stored in a band trailer or the back of members’...
The National Weather Service is forecasting two rounds of potential severe weather for Tuscaloosa County on Sunday, April 19.
The first round of severe weather is forecast for the early morning hours...
While students are away, the University of Alabama System is rethinking health and safety on campus.
The UA System has created a task force led by UAB Health System experts to develop plans for University...
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a local non-profit is providing food to first responders and their families in addition to offering curbside pickup of food packs. They are also collaborating with...
The National Weather Service has placed Tuscaloosa County in a moderate risk for severe weather suring the afternoon and evening of Sunday, April 12.
The inclement weather warning includes tornadoes,...
With testing and resource shortages nationwide, data on confirmed COVID-19 cases hasn’t always been reliable. And, in Tuscaloosa, an early testing blunder by the regional hospital exacerbated the issue....
Alabama’s new shelter-in-place order isn’t much different from Tuscaloosa’s current curfew, Mayor Walt Maddox and city attorneys said at a virtual press conference Friday evening.
On Friday afternoon,...
City leaders are well aware of the economic impact students have on Tuscaloosa, and if anything needed to prove that, it was a global pandemic. Though University closures have displaced droves of students...
What began as a harmless reminder spiraled into a ruthless spamming of every University of Alabama student’s inbox Wednesday morning.
An email from the UA Academic Advisors Association was sent to...
Lounging around a leather couch in the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity house, Demarcus Joiner and his campaign team let loose. They were prematurely celebrating what would be an unsurprising win.
This...
Though this year’s SGA races are vastly unopposed, all students will have something to vote on when Tuesday rolls around: Amendments.
In addition to candidate slots for the SGA executive board and...
It’s usually easy to tell when it's a campaign week. Backpacks and tote bags are adorned with plastic buttons, profile pictures are
updated with logos and banners, and students line the Quad to pass...
This position will be a homecoming for Pope, who earned a Bachelor of Arts in history and a Master of Arts and Doctorate of Education in higher education administration from the University of Alabama.
Landon Nichols grew up learning a faith-based version of sex education in his Selma private school, where students were taught an abstinence-only curriculum in a program covertly called “CHANGES.”
Nichols...
In light of the upcoming 2020 election, this year’s Black History Month (BHM) programming is aptly themed, “African Americans and the Vote.”
University groups officially kicked off BHM programming...
After reporting on a series of hires and fires this past semester, The Crimson White’s news desk charted leadership changes over the past five years in efforts to give a broader snapshot of administrative turnover. Here’s what we found.
Last spring, Demarcus Joiner, the first full-time vice president of a newly formed student government cabinet for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), ran on a platform largely based on programming,...
Myron Pope is a data person. That was clear in his presentation to a Ferguson Theatre audience on Jan. 16, when he laid out his vision and values for student life.
Pope, a UA alumnus, was the second...
Questions about diversity and inclusion were at the forefront in the first of five candidate presentations for an open senior leadership position at the University of Alabama.
Vincent Carilli is the...
The National Weather Service has placed Tuscaloosa County in an enhanced risk for severe weather on Saturday, Jan. 11, between the hours of 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.
The inclement weather threat includes...
When the University desegregated in 1956 and more formally in 1963, the paper was rarely critical of UA administration and devoted ample space to the voices of officials. Editorial commentary, however, condemned white violence on campus and supported integration, a stance that was met with resistance from several white readers.
After news broke Wednesday morning that the UA Student Government Association (SGA) was planning to remove students who engaged in “disruptive behavior,” however, a national audience began to question what exactly that behavior entailed and whether protest would be a possibility inside the stadium.
A full house of first-year councilors gathered for their first Student Government Association (SGA) Senate meeting on Thursday, where they watched resolutions on parking and blue lights and diversity liaisons get passed.
Three public meetings were held on Thursday, Sep. 12, to provide UA students, staff, faculty and administrators an outlet to discuss concerns, as well as possible actions, in response to the recent resignation of UA’s dean of students.
Jamie R. Riley, the University of Alabama’s assistant vice president and dean of students, resigned from his position on Thursday after less than seven months on the job, UA officials confirmed.
Emails obtained by The Crimson White through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request confirm that Bob Davis was offered and accepted the position of Director of the Office of Student Media at The University of Alabama, but was terminated five days later.
Four years ago, history professor Hilary Green started leading an alternative campus tour called “Hallowed Grounds,” in which she addresses the University’s long history with slavery and racism. Green’s tour includes slave cabins behind the President’s mansion, as well as several facilities built and housed by enslaved people.
The Crimson White received confirmation on Friday from Monica Watts, Associate Vice President of Communications at the University of Alabama, that Bob Davis is no longer a candidate for the Director of the Office of Student Media position.
David Grady, the vice president of the Division of Student Life at the University of Alabama, announced his resignation in an email sent to UA students and faculty on Friday, July 26.
“We appreciate...
Former UA students are expressing their concern about a candidate for the Office of Student Media director position after allegations surfaced that he censored an unfolding story about sexual assault on his former newspaper’s staff. And, in an effort of clarification, an employee from The Anniston Star has also come forward to further iron out the narrative surrounding allegations of Davis’ involvement in covering up a story about sexual assault in 2017.
A question of ethics surrounds a candidate for the Office of Student Media director position after allegations surfaced that he censored an unfolding story about sexual assault on his former newspaper’s staff.
Sharon Nelson had never marched for a cause, had never held a picket sign and had certainly never organized a 100-person protest a day in her life.
Until last Friday, when she and other Tuscaloosa...
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management released an update of its investigation of Tyson Foods on Thursday, June 20.
[MORE: Tyson Foods under investigation for E. coli in Black Warrior River]
Water...
The University of Alabama System has been adamant that the decision to return Hugh Culverhouse Jr.’s $21.5 million donation had nothing to do with his public disavowal of the Alabama abortion ban.
Now,...
Frannie James said she’d be terrified if she were still a full-time English as a Second Language instructor.
“If I lost my job at The University of Alabama, there’s not many other jobs to get,”...
Autherine Lucy Foster ended her third day of school in the annex of Graves Hall, where she was holed up for two hours before being escorted, face-down in a patrol car, to the safety of a nearby barbershop.
Outside,...
