On Building Community in a Divisive Era Scoundrel Time, January 28, 2018
How the mysteries of poetry can help a writer expand the boundaries of language.
Eudora Welty's "Where is the Voice Coming From?" helps show a full picture of Mississippi in 1963.
A look back at the joys of summer reading on an old bookmobile
On a youthful first encounter with William Faulkner’s The Reivers.
A look at the ever changing mind of the American South.
A look at the significance of Martin Luther King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Four U.S. Poets Laureate have taught at the University of Michigan. The author shares his memories of three of them.
Genetic testing suggests that white and black Americans have more in common than they suspect. Will this change our perception of race?
Now is the time to reconsider a policy that must eventually change. But simply replacing race with class isn’t the solution.
An analysis of the comments made by Trent Lott at Strom Thurmond’s Birthday Party in 2002.
The Washington Post, December15, 2002
A meditation on the integration of the University of Mississippi 25 years later