by Rabbi Rami Shapiro | Sep 8, 2008 | Opinion
The question came up on an American Airlines flight from Nashville to Dallas. I was reading the September-October issue of Sojourners, a liberal Christian magazine, and my seatmate was reading over my shoulder. We were both taken with a letter to the editor that...
by Bob Allen | Aug 29, 2008 | News
On the football field a “crackback” is an unexpected blind-side block that takes a would-be tackler out of the play. When it comes to hiring black coaches, it’s a standard part of the playbook, says Fitz Hill, former head coach at San Jose State...
by Bob Allen | Aug 13, 2008 | News
One reason 11 a.m. Sunday remains the most segregated hour in America is because many church members want it that way, according to a recent article by CNN. The Aug. 4 article quoted religious scholars and members of interracial churches who said both blacks and...
by Aaron Weaver | Jun 12, 2008 | Opinion
While not as well known as Martin Luther King Jr., Fred L. Shuttlesworth was the Baptist pastor most responsible for the success of the civil rights movement in the Alabama city known as “Bombingham.” Fifty racially motivated bombings between 1947 and 1955...
by Britt Towery | Jun 3, 2008 | Opinion
I grew up in Brownwood, Texas, an ordinary segregated county-seat town. I gave little thought to the welfare or needs of the folks who lived in “The Flats,” the place where the blacks lived. The shoe-shine “boy” in my dad’s barber shop...
