The third volume of John Lewis’s memoir of the civil-rights movement may be the best yet
…week the trilogy’s final volume, March: Book Three, was published in a first printing that sold out in less than a month. For much of the fall all three books…
Appalachian writer Wilma Dykeman explores her mountain childhood in a newly-recovered memoir
…career, she became renowned for her prolific and varied body of work, which included several novels of Appalachian life, groundbreaking environmentalist writings, and essays of civil-rights advocacy. Her novels, especially…
Adam Hochschild argues that the Spanish Civil War was one of the first great populist causes
…train. Once there, though, he fell into a morass of ideological politics almost as dangerous as the war itself—communists loyal to Stalin versus anarchists loyal to no one. This internal…
Johnny Smith talks about the fractured friendship of Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
…made them ideal television actors. In many ways, their political and cultural influence was shaped by the growth of television. Both men used it to reach their audience: Malcolm appealed…
Jason Ward investigates a series of lynchings in Clarke County, Mississippi
…Ward: My goal with the book’s structure was to capture and connect three moments of local violence and national change, and to devote roughly equal attention to three important eras…
Gail Lumet Buckley’s family history provides a window into the long movement for black liberation
The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family is more than the biography of entertainment trailblazer and civil-rights icon Lena Horne. Gail Lumet Buckley,…
