History
February 22, 2008 -
The Alabama Conservation Advisory Board this month heard the pleas of fox hunters who are seeking a change in state rules to preserve a version of their sport that uses packs of scent hounds to track foxes or sometimes coyotes inside large enc
January 21, 2008 -
"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." -- Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
September 28, 2007 -
One of the interesting story lines about civil rights and the Southern movement for equality was its intersections with business.
September 12, 2007 -
Paul Ortiz -- a professor in the community studies program at the University of California at Santa Cruz and an Institute for
June 27, 2007 -
The Washington Post's four-part profile of Dick Cheney offers a fascinating glimpse into the most powerful vice presidency in U.S. history.
June 19, 2007 -
As many know, today is Juneteenth, marking the day in 1865 that African-American slaves in Galveston, Texas were informed that they were free -- over two years after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Juneteenth.org provides more background:
June 7, 2007 -
The city of Little Rock, Arkansas is busy preparing for the 50th anniversary of a turning point in the civil rights struggle: the fall of 1957, when nine black students faced down a mob to integrate Little Rock Central High Scho