Portfolio 2023’s Faces from the Road: Alabama, Oklahoma, Los Angeles, Vienna, and Biarritz. The “Good Negro” and the Meaning of Freedom Montgomery, Alabama Fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama to allow newly-boarded Booker T. Washington and the True Source of Dignity Tuskegee, Alabama The contemporary language of racial justice tends to focus on external threats to human dignity rather than on what individuals and groups The Night Jesus Spoke to Martin Luther King, Jr. Montgomery, Alabama Of the many heroic deeds performed in the name of civil rights in America, perhaps none is more consequential Fear and Loathing in South Carolina Charleston, South Carolina My first stop in Charleston was to pay my respects to Denmark Vesey—a formerly enslaved carpenter who had bought America’s Other Founding Father Groton, Sussex, England The United States was founded twice, first by 17th-century Puritans and again by 18th-century revolutionaries. The Puritans Home Is Where the Heart Is Atchison, Kansas My wife carries a now dog-eared copy of this photo of Amelia Earhart in her pocketbook. She was Easy Like Sunday Morning Tuskegee, Alabama I've been searching for America and all variety of Americana for decades now. But this building has already America Ignored Jimmy Carter at its Own Peril Atlanta, Georgia One of the many flaws in American governance is that the president is expected to be both chief executive What Marx — Harpo not Karl — Understood about Diversity Upper East Side, Manhattan, New York It was a beautiful—almost spring—morning in Manhattan, a perfect day for an excursion. So « Previous 1 2 3 4 … 6 Next »
