Do we have the guts to do something about racial bias?
Hazel Brannon Smith’s views on civil rights evolved, and she paid a price for expressing them in her Mississippi weekly.
Social Justice and Equality
Who are the real beneficiaries of affirmative action?
After touching a nerve, a columnist gives his critics another earful.
Morning in America
'I can’t help but experience Obama’s election as a gesture of recognition and acceptance — which is patently absurd, if you think about it,' Pulitzer-winning columnist Eugene Robinson wrote shortly after the 44th president's election
Martin Luther King, Jr. cared about means as well as ends
On the eve of the first national MLK holiday, the columnist Charles Krauthammer reflected on Dr. King and his 'natural heir': Bishop Desmond Tutu
‘Massive resistance’ rocks Virginia
Mary Lou Werner, who mentored journalists from Carl Bernstein of the Washington Post to conservative columnist Cal Thomas, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1959 for her coverage of Virginia's school integration crisis
What it’s like to be black
In a project on the African-American experience, reporter Shirley J. Scott wrote: 'As an adult Negro, you live in two worlds: the white world where you make your living; the black world where you make your friends.’
An honorable compromise
As arguments on marriage equality in Vermont gathered momentum, David Moats wrote a series of quiet, well-reasoned editorials that helped The Rutland Herald’s readers consider this issue.
