The morning began just like any other. It was hot and getting hotter. White clouds moved in, the fat, fluffy kind you lie in the grass and daydream over. Kids were in summertime camp, their parents at work, and across the city folks began making plans for lunch.
A suggestion for reading Harper Lee's new "Go Set a Watchman."
Morris Dees grew up the son of white Alabama cotton farmers. His father was hated by the local Klan because of the fair and kind way he treated other black sharecroppers. In the 1950s, Dees went to the University of Alabama and witnessed the mob violence that followed Autherine Lucy, the first black student who tried to integrate the campus.
The last time I saw Reuben Summerlin, he may have been wearing a skirt.
Across the South, the Confederate flag keeps coming down.
Tickets are still available -- yes, still available -- for next month's Finley Stadium sold-out match between Costa Rica and the World Cup-winning U.S. women's national soccer team.
When Terry Lee Melton's two-story garage burned to the ground, it left behind a pile of ash and debris so tall she couldn't see over it.
In light of the racism and violence in Charleston, S.C., Nashville politicians are considering the removal of the 4-foot tall, state Capitol bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general who later became the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
Saturday night had just turned into Sunday morning - Father's Day morning - and Tim Abernathy, 47, walked off the dance floor at the Menlo Barn Dance near Summerville, Ga.
The black church has been and will remain one of the most powerful institutions in America. No bullet, no manifesto, no racist intruder can stop it.
