Marching and picketing, sit-ins, court rulings, freedom rides, grassroots activism, soaring oratory, physical resistance and fervent prayers contributed to the success of the civil rights movement. But minor league baseball also helped eliminate...
As I have said before in various ways, I am ambivalent about my alma mater. I attended and graduated from the University of Texas and spent about 30 years in Austin, but it is not the central fact of my life. While UT is a big school (more than...
Not long ago, my friend Ruby Lee stated her admiration for women’s fashion designer and perfume maker Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel. Ruby is a smart person whose opinions I respect, so I went in search of information about Chanel. That’s not to say I...
It was liberation day—the defeated Japanese having begun a hasty exit from Korea 74 years ago—and President Moon Jae-in, in a pale blue hanbok, was addressing the nation from Independence Hall in Cheonan. I saw him on the TV from my seat at the...
Among the 125 or so books I shipped from Texas to Korea in June was Armadillo World Headquarters, a memoir written by Eddie Wilson with help from Jesse Sublett. Published in 2017 by University of Texas Press, it was considerably better than...
Each of the last two weekends, I have left the friendly confines of Gangnam and traveled north of the Han River to explore Gwanghwamun, and I may very well go back next weekend. There is always so much to see—maybe too much. What is this place...
Robert T. Hill Junior High School was not exactly a cornucopia of athletic talent in the 1966−67 school year, at least among the ninth graders. The Highlanders football team went 1-8, and most of its top players were eighth graders like Blake...
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