The criminal justice advocate and civil rights leader on his work, the war on accurate American history, and grace for those consumed by hate.
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Posted inPolitics
Jimmy Carter’s Segregation Journey
Born in the Jim Crow South, Carter saw the scaffolding of segregation dismantled in his native Georgia.
Posted inBooks
The Bleak, All But-Forgotten World of Segregated Virginia
Former Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust’s extraordinary memoir recalls painful memories for her–and me.
Posted inJuly/August 2023
Erasing the Color Lines
The problem of residential segregation is racial. The best solutions are not.
Posted inBooks, June/July/August 2017, Magazine
Why Segregated Neighborhoods Persist
The long historical reach of racial housing policy.
Posted inMagazine
Dukedumb
No doubt about it, David Duke was a hell of a story. For political reporters, the former Klansman’s Louisiana campaigns were relics of the segregationist South, bracing proof that the old Confederacy’s worst instincts are still alive. For high-brow essayists, Duke emerged as a symbol of the struggle between good and evil in the American mind—a […]
Posted inMagazine
Doing a Little for Others and a Lot for Ourselves
A Tale of Two Projects: • The Southern headquarters of the American Friends Service Committee is a small suite of rooms in one of Atlanta’s more notorious office buildings, an ugly old brown monster that Lester Maddox once denounced as a nest of Commies because it housed (and still does) such groups as the American […]
