I left Austin a long time ago (4,487 days ago, to be precise) and have never missed it. While I was there, however, I often listened to KUT, 90.5 on your FM dial. I donated to its bi-annual fundraisers and came to know several of its on-air...
In 1990, I dragged my then-girlfriend to the Texas Union Ballroom to hear Dr. John Edgar Wideman give a speech about Emmett Till. That would have been four years after a driving tour I took through the state of Mississippi; Greenville...
My last Korea Times column (February 1-2, 2020) referred to Nino Benvenuti of Italy having lost a controversial boxing match to Korea’s Kim Ki-soo at Jangchung Gymnasium on June 25, 1966. Since the KT editor limits me to 800 words, I could not go...
During my growing-up years in Dallas, the name of Mildred “Babe” Didrikson was frequently written and spoken. Everybody, it seems, knew about this Norwegian-American athletic marvel. Born in Port Arthur, she moved with her family to...
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