Selma

About that “Negro dialect”…

Arts, Culture & Media

Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is in political hot water this week for past remarks he made about President Obama’s race. According to the new book Game Change, Reid encouraged Obama’s run for the White House, in part, because he was “light-skinned” and had “no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.’ Long […]

Peggy Wallace Kennedy

Of racism, redemption and forgiveness: George Wallace’s daughter tries to right her father’s wrongs

Justice
Selma Bridge

Fifty years after Selma’s ‘Bloody Sunday,’ immigrants join fight against racism

Justice

The Rise and Fall of Jesse Jackson, Jr.

Has the Case of Trayvon Martin made Sanford the New Birmingham?

The World

Death of the Family Farm

Author Victor Davis Hansen comments on the decline of the family farm. Hansen hails from his family farm in Selma, California, and his most recent book is Fields Without Dreams: Defending the Agrarian Idea.