I have been in a funk since the day after last year’s presidential election. About a month before the voting, I began to feel as though Donald Trump would...
I constantly remind the students in my African American history classes that if you are poor and white in America, especially if you are rural or southern,...
Whenever I think of Richard Nixon, a wave of pity washes over me. Has there ever been a mainstream politician in America who was so hated, so reviled, so...
I was well into my thirties before I learned that Otis Redding wrote and recorded Respect in 1965. As far as I–and probably many others–knew, Respect...