History
March 3, 2008 -
An excerpt of a 1981 Southern Exposure interview with civil rights organizer James Orange, who talks about how he got his nickname, the importance of freedom songs to the movement, and his later work with gangs in Chicago. Orange passed in away in February 2008 at age 65.
February 22, 2008 -
The Alabama Conservation Advisory Board this month heard the pleas of fox hunters who are seeking a change in state rules to preserve a version of their sport that uses packs of scent hounds to track foxes or sometimes coyotes inside large enc
January 21, 2008 -
"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." -- Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
September 28, 2007 -
One of the interesting story lines about civil rights and the Southern movement for equality was its intersections with business.
September 12, 2007 -
Paul Ortiz -- a professor in the community studies program at the University of California at Santa Cruz and an Institute for
June 27, 2007 -
The Washington Post's four-part profile of Dick Cheney offers a fascinating glimpse into the most powerful vice presidency in U.S. history.
June 19, 2007 -
As many know, today is Juneteenth, marking the day in 1865 that African-American slaves in Galveston, Texas were informed that they were free -- over two years after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Juneteenth.org provides more background: