Voices in Our Blood is a literary anthology of the most important and artful interpretations of the civil rights movement, past and present. It showcases what forty of the nation's best writers — including Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Alice Walker,...
—JOHN PAGE to Thomas Jefferson, spring 1776 The bells rung all day and almost all night. Even the chimers chimed away. —JOHN ADAMS, describing the reaction to the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia, 1776 AT ABOUT SEVEN O’CLOCK on the morning of Sunday, March 31, 1...
military. Taking the stage before us, the general told us our mission: to kill or capture Osama bin Laden. This time, he told us, we were serious. We had assembled the very best of America’s special operations community and would take advantage of a planned Pakistani military offensive in the Fed...
my friend, a Southerner, long resident in New York, said, “and not me.” But I went back, for going back this time, like all the other times, was a necessary part of my life. I was going back to look at the landscapes and streets I had known—Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana—to...