An alumni nonprofit is launching a $25,000 fundraising campaign Monday for two independent student-run magazines to replace Nineteen Fifty-Six and Alice Magazine after they were permanently suspended Dec. 1.
The nonprofit, Masthead, advocates for “diverse, anti-racist and equitable” student media at the University, according to its website.
Victor Luckerson, president of Masthead and former editor-in-chief of The Crimson White, said the donation would cover printing costs, student salaries and overhead expenses to sustain the magazines for the spring 2026 semester. He said the magazines will publish under new names unless the University relinquishes its rights to Nineteen Fifty-Six and Alice.
“To have a situation in which these students aren’t feeling supported is really disappointing, and that’s one reason that we wanted to be able to step in and provide that support on some kind of level,” Luckerson said.
The University of Alabama Division of Student Life shut down the two student publications on Dec. 1, with Vice President for Student Life Steven Hood citing a July 29 federal memo from U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi. The memo provided “non-binding suggestions” to help federal funds recipients comply with anti discrimination laws.
Hood told magazine staff in a meeting Dec. 1 that the magazines are considered “unlawful proxies” as defined in the memo, because Alice and Nineteen Fifty-Six target women and Black students, respectively. However, neither magazine limited who could work for or read their publications, and both had employed students outside their target audiences.
The University said that it will provide funding for one new student magazine next academic year and that staff hopes to work with students to ensure that the new magazine will feature “a variety of voices and perspectives.” Editors of the publications say they are uninterested or unsure about working to formulate the new publication.
Gabrielle Gunter, editor-in-chief of Alice, said most of her staff is not interested in helping the University shape the new magazine. She added that she was “offended” by the proposal and that it’s “very disheartening” to be told to work on a new magazine that the University said is “for everyone,” which she said wrongly implied that Alice wasn’t for everyone.
Kendal Wright, editor-in-chief of Nineteen Fifty-Six, said she isn’t sure whether she would help form the University’s new magazine, adding that Alice and Nineteen Fifty-Six “existed for a reason.”
“I think that it’s important that the University still retains one, but it’s unfortunate and disappointing that they couldn’t add a new one and had to take both of us away,” she said.
Wright said an independent magazine would provide “invaluable experience” for the staff of both Nineteen Fifty-Six and Alice.
“I’m really fired up, and my returning staff is too,” Gunter said of the fundraiser.
The University previously said that First Amendment rights of its students “remain fully intact” following the suspensions. Experts disagreed, saying that the University engaged in illegal viewpoint discrimination by shutting down publications because their content was aimed toward women and Black students.
“It’s not a wrong thing to create a publication that represents a lot of people’s voices on campus, and I think that’s something that these publications did,” Luckerson said. “They provided a diversity of perspectives among the student body. They had a lot of people on campus feel seen and heard, and so taking that away from students is wrong at the end of the day.”
Luckerson said alumni support for students is essential.
“One of our duties as alumni is to help to support the next generation of truth tellers,” he said. “We as alumni have more financial resources than the current students, so we should step up and provide those.”
Eighty UA student media alumni submitted a Letter to the Editor to The Crimson White on Wednesday, urging support for students and calling the magazine’s suspension “purposeful suppression of student voices, particularly the voices of Black students and women.”
“As devastating, disappointing and upsetting as this has been, it shows how what we’ve done on this campus, both us and Alice, has reached a wider audience than we’ve ever thought,” Wright said.
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