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Nation HistoryDecember 19, 2016
Why Are We Still Reliving the Nightmarish Death of Emmett Till?
When I went to Mississippi to cover the trial, I had no idea that the story would become so relevant again more than 60 years later.
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Racism and DiscriminationDecember 19, 2016
Land of the Free? This Firsthand Report From the Emmett Till Murder Trial Is Chilling to Read Today
“The crowds are gone and this Delta town is back to its silent, solid life that is based on cotton and the proposition that a whole race of men was created to pick it.”
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HistoryMarch 18, 2009
C. Wright Mills: Before His Time
Maybe C. Wright Mills’s greatest legacy was a decade of activism and rebellion.
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HistoryMarch 18, 2009
C. Wright Mills
The humanist social critic whose work helped lay the groundwork for the upheavals of the 1960s.
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PoliticsApril 9, 2006
Taking Back the Faith
Where are the progressive religious leaders who can fill the shoes of William Sloane Coffin?
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BiographyJune 24, 2004
The Anti-Warrior
Christianity in this country has become almost synonymous with right-wing fanaticism, conservative politics and–courtesy of Mel Gibson–a brutally sadistic version of religious experience.
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Autobiography and MemoirOctober 23, 2003
Starting Out in the ’50s
The best memoirs of recent years reveal “The Way We Live Now” as well as or better than most contemporary fiction.
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Autobiography and MemoirDecember 22, 2000
Speak, Memory!
A review of Cherry, by Mary Karr; On Writing, by Stephen King; and Ghost Light, by Frank Rich.
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Autobiography and MemoirApril 8, 1999
Front Page With a Human Face
Back in the fifties, before the term “new journalism” was coined, back when Gay Talese was writing minor obituaries for the New York Times, Tom Wolfe was a grad student at Yale and Joan Di
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