WorksEver Is a Long Time: A Journey Into Mississippi's Dark Past
A gripping memoir of coming of age in Mississippi in the Civil Rights era, and a startling look at the once secret files of the State Sovereignty Commission. Like the renowned classics Praying for Sheetrock and North Toward Home, Ever Is a Long Time captures the spirit and feel of a small Southern town divided by racism and violence in the midst of the Civil Rights era. Part personal journey, part social and political history, this extraordinary book reveals the burden of Southern history and how that burden is carried even today in the hearts and minds of those who lived through the worst of it. George Washington's Slaves
Why the flags at Mount Vernon flew at half mast on Sarah Johnson's death Whiteness Falls
Gentrification threatens to destroy the spirit of a Black neighborhood in Atlanta Mississippi Yearning
Washington Post review of Doug Marlette's Magic Time Still Learning From Dad
The author's reflection on thirty years of dreaming about the father he lost. DNA is Only One Way to Spell Identity
Genetic testing suggests that white and black Americans have more in common than they suspect. Will this change our perceptions of race? Separate But Unequal
An personal look at the impact of post-September 11 security precautions on the Capitol Hill neighborhood in Washington, DC. Before He Had His "Dream," King Wrote a Letter
We must never forget King's dream; but let us also not forget the nightmares he struggled with before and after. And he captured those in the eloquent letter he wrote to eight Alabama clergymen from a Birmingham jail, a mere four months before his famous speech at the Lincoln Memorial. A Trip Back Home for a Lesson in Justice
An examination of the impact of an arrest in the Freedom Summer murders of 1964, 40 years later. Published January 10, 2005, in the Chicago Tribune Are We Putting Reading and Democracy at Risk?
A look at the National Endowment for the Arts "Reading at Risk" survey, Published July 19, 2004 in the Chicago Tribune I Know What He Means
In December 2002 Trent Lott proclaimed "I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years." While many were trying to discern what Trent Lott really meant, this article analyzed Lott's statement through the lens of the South of the Civil-Rights Era. |
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