Freedom Faith examines the little-known influence of civil rights leader Prathia Hall
…of all the little-known painters who coexisted with the alleged immortals. Every genius, he noted, worked within a scene of thoughtful people cultivating, through the expenditure of their own creative…
A young enslaved woman in New Orleans finds a way to fight back
…New Orleans in the mid-1800s — both its richness and its cruelty. Best of all, he brings alive the characters of Ady, Sanite, Lenore, and the others and makes real…
Raymond Arsenault offers the first comprehensive biography of civil rights icon John Lewis
…famed civil rights leader and longtime member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Emerging from a poor farming community outside Troy, Alabama, Lewis rose to prominence with the 1960 Nashville…
50 Books / HT50, Part 4: 1994-1998
…pages he creates and explores an almost surreal present purgatory built from varying amounts of Zen Buddhism, memories, paradox and pastoral opulence. Gertrude Stein, Sappho, his physician and a golf…
Gordon A. Martin revisits United States v. Lynd, the civil rights case that forever changed the South
…ramblings of the 1962-era federal court system. In Lynd’s initial trial, U.S. District Court Judge Harold Cox–– whom Martin paints as an ornery stalwart segregationist––refuses to place the clerk under…
A trip through the mind of civil rights icon Julian Bond
…for all people. Long has carefully arranged and compiled writings which demonstrate how Bond evolved on critical social issues. Nowhere is this more pronounced than in Bond’s support of equal…
