It has been confirmed that they’ve found the Clotilda. This last known slave ship to enter the United States came into Mobile Bay in the
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Collecting Stories in Newtown, February 23
Next Saturday, February 23, my Creative Writing students and students from our school’s Photography magnet will be at the Newtown Community Center in north Montgomery
Disrupters & interlopers: Charles Gomillion
To borrow the wording from his New York Times obituary in 1995, Dr. Charles Gomillion “led the fight that brought political power to the black
“Hating Obama”
Twice in 2008, I stood in the long lines at the Alabama State University polling place to vote for Barack Obama. First in the primary, then again
Progress on my Whitehurst book
It’s funny how the “final stages” of a book take so long. Though I have been working on this book about the Whitehurst Case since
Southern Movie 9: “The Green Pastures”
After writing about the 1939 film Way Down South two months ago, I couldn’t resist also writing about 1936’s The Green Pastures for some of the
