3 articles tagged with civil rights
Standing at the corner of Greenwood and Archer in Tulsa, Oklahoma, I felt the weight of history pressing in from all sides. This wasn't just any American intersection—this was the heart of what was once known as 'Black Wall Street,'...
At 64, I've learned that the most profound journeys often happen in overlooked destinations. Pine Bluff, Arkansas—a small city cradled in the Arkansas Delta—is precisely such a place. When my college roommate from Pine Bluff invited me for a reunion...
As someone who's spent a career examining patterns in epidemiology, I've developed quite the knack for tracing historical narratives through physical spaces. Kansas City presents a fascinating case study in American history—a border city where the tensions of the Civil...