W. Ralph Eubanks

Events

March 25, 2010
University of Evansville
Eykamp Hall, Room 253
Ridgway University Center
4:00 pm
Evansville, Indiana

March 27, 2010
12:00 pm
Missouri History Museum in Forest Park
Lindell and DeBalviere in Forest Park
St. Louis, Missouri

Missouri History Museum

April 29-May 1, 2010
13th Annual Alabama Writer's Symposium
Monroeville, Alabama

Alabama Writer's Symposium

Sunday, June 27, 2010
American Library Association Annual Conference
Washington, DC
Keynote speaker, 4th Annual "Bookmobile Sunday"

American Library Association

Links to Webcasts of Previous Events

The New America Foundation, June 29, 2009

Fall for the Book, September 22, 2009

National Book Festival, September 26, 2009

Selected Works

Books

The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South
A look at race and identity through three generations of one American Family

Ever Is a Long Time: A Journey Into Mississippi's Dark Past
A gripping memoir of coming of age in Mississippi in the Civil Rights era.

Reviews

Healing the Past
A Review of Abraham Verghese's "Cutting for Stone"

George Washington's Slaves
A review of Scott Casper's "Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon"

Fathers and Sons
A Review of Richard Wright's A Father's Law

Whiteness Falls
A review of Nathan McCall's "Them: A Novel

Mississippi Yearning
A Review of Doug Marlette's Magic Time

Articles

Affirmative Action and After
Now is the time to reconsider a policy that must eventually change. But simply replacing race with class isn’t the solution.

At Ole Miss, a Valedictory to the Old South
A look at the changing mind of the South

DNA is Only One Way to Spell Identity
A Look at the Meaning of Racial Labels

Before He Had His "Dream," King Wrote a Letter
A look at the significance of Martin Luther King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail

I Know What He Means
An analysis of the comments made by Trent Lott at Strom Thurmond’s Birthday Party in 2002.

Essays

Still Learning From Dad
A Son Relishes Counsel That Comes in Dreams

Separate But Unequal
Has Capitol Hill, barricaded and fenced off, lost its small-town appeal?

A Trip Back Home for a Lesson in Justice
A summer trip to Mississippi provides the author and his children a look at Freedom Summer 1964

Are We Putting Reading and Democracy at Risk?
Fewer of us are reading, and our leaders may have scared even more people away from the pastime.

Quick Links

American Program Bureau

May 5, 2004, commentary on NPR's "All Things Considered"

Interview on NPR's "Talk of the Nation"

Interview on WNYC's The Leonard Lopate Show

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