Magnolia Park is just a few miles north of downtown Beaumont, Texas. That is where, in the early 1960s, high school football players gathered to practice and play informal games. Recreation for black kids then was minimal, so they created their...
My life changed for the better when the Brandeberry family moved from Omaha to Dallas in the summer of 1969. The oldest of its three children was a girl named Carol. She enrolled at Bryan Adams High School, and her locker had by the luck of the...
I recently attended and enjoyed an exhibition about the life and music of John Lennon and the Beatles at the Seoul Arts Center. However—and I am afraid I will sound like an insufferable snob here—I learned little since I lived through the Beatles...
According to Stanley Woodward of the New York Herald Tribune, some major fireworks went off just three weeks after Jackie Robinson began his career with the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947. Certainly there had been opposition to Robinson...
On this 223-kilometer bus ride to Korea’s east coast, I had two seat mates. The first was a young woman who had recently been through plastic surgery; I could see her bruised face underneath a mask. The second was a burly man who reeked of...
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