Writer’s Blog

In mid-April seventy years ago, Hank Aaron integrated the South Atlantic League, one of baseball’s minor leagues, stretching from South Carolina to Alabama. Somehow, his heroic barrier-busting in the Jim Crow South as a just a teenager has gotten lost in the 755...

On King Day 2022, it’s good to recall Martin Luther King Jr.’s impact on the small-town, rural South and particularly on Greene County, Alabama blackest county and sixth poorest in America. For young Blacks growing up there in the 1960s, Dr. King was not someone you...

Five young men brave enough to sign on with the University of Georgia when it was one of the last three SEC teams to integrate have finally received permanent on-campus remembrance for changing the course of UGA football. A monument to them was unveiled Friday at Reed...

When Harold Franklin was growing up in Talladega, Alabama, during the Depression and WWII, his parents always told him and his nine siblings, “When you do something in life, try to do something that will help others as well.” Saturday, Franklin will be returned to the...