How faith and a newspaper transformed a Mississippi community.
Racism
J. Daryl Byler 9-01-2003
While many in the U.S. civil rights movement were busy integrating lunch counters, others took on an even tougher challenge—integrating U.S. churches.
Rose Marie Berger, Jodi Hochstedler 3-01-2002
In Auburn, Alabama, two all-white fraternities wore blackface and Ku Klux Klan robes to Halloween parties; some even simulated a lynching. Both frats have been suspended.
Bob McLalan 3-01-2001
A conservative Republican makes the case for reparations for African Americans.
Aaron McCarroll Gallegos 1-01-2001
Honky, by Yale sociologist Dalton Conley, is a memoir of growing up during the 1970s and 1980s in the projects of New York's Lower East Side.
Chris Rice 11-01-2000
A straight-shooting white friend once commented that whenever blacks and whites are together it's like there's a "big pile of poop in the middle of the room..."
Stacia M. Brown 9-01-2000
The Internet has rekindled the zeal and magnified the power of hate groups. What can we do to fight back?
Ted Parks 7-01-1999
After James Byrd Jr. was brutally murdered by racists in jasper, Texas, the town did not explode. That wasn't an accident, as black and white churches refused to let hate have the final world.
Jim Rice 9-01-1998
Tens of millions of people were forcibly taken from their homes in Africa in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Jim Rice 9-01-1998
Tens of millions of people were forcibly taken from their homes in Africa in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Danny Duncan Collum 5-01-1998
Thirty-five years ago, on June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers was assassinated in front of his home on the west side of Jackson, Mississippi.
