Opinion

Treasures are found while recently perusing the boxes of unorganized pictures and ephemera left by a mother decades ago. In the disarray, along with elementary school report cards and handwritten Mother’s Day cards, a yellowed newspaper article cut out on the day after Franklin Roosevelt died is worth reading again during today's divisive times.

The black and white photo above is of my mother and me in the late 1940s in Hanover Square, a Colonial-era park in the...

Reading Jim Grimsley’s book earlier this year about growing up in North Carolina surrounded by racism in the 1960s has prompted me to reflect...