More than a year ago, Harvey Matthews, said it; he told me. I arrived at Macedonia Baptist Church, finding Mr. Harvey, as I affectionately address him, picking up debris from the church grounds—the abundance of walnuts falling free from the yard’s tree (BTW, that I...
Forty years ago, the late, African American writer Leanita McClain wrote an essay entitled “How Chicago Taught Me to Hate White People,” about the racially polarizing election of that city’s first black mayor, Harold Washington. So polarizing was McClain’s essay that...
