Writer’s Blog

By Jim Barber (Barber is author of the 2019 novel Plowed Fields, a story of life in the rural South in the 1960s.) December 31, 2020 It’s been a hard, harsh year in America. Seems like literally everyone has found a reason to feel put upon and the idea of sacrificing...

I have written often about brave young black Americans I never knew who integrated southern college athletics and made us all better. Today, I write about a brave young black American I knew well who helped integrate southern press boxes. His name was Roscoe Nance. I...

Ronnie Hogue’s death this month reminds us of both how far we have come and how much we’d rather not look back on where we’ve been. A half-century ago, Hogue was playing basketball as the first African American on a full athletic scholarship at the University of...

The following book review of Remember Henry Harris was published this month in “Veritas in Alabama,” a newsletter of the Harvard Club of Birmingham. It is written by Charlie Marlin, Harvard Class of 1972. By Charlie Marlin, AB 1972 People who were late adolescents or...