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By Douglas A. Blackmon
When I was a Boy Scout in Leland, Mississippi, my patrol in Troop 42 called itself “the Rebels” during 1976. I still have locked in a trunk somewhere little wooden blocks I painted with the names of each scout imposed over a crude image of the Confederate...

Nicholas Kristof gets it right in his NY Times column today, about how hard it is for us white folks in America to admit what enormous advantages we were born with because of the abuses of the ancestors of people who don’t look like us. He is generous...

My American Forum Interview
With Attorney General Eric H. Holder
by Douglas A. Blackmon

Published in The Washington Post, Aug. 29, 2013
by Douglas A. Blackmon
One of the first inmates to benefit from the Obama administration’s new, less stringent guidelines on the early release of federal prisoners is the 87-year-old father of one of four African American girls killed in the infamous 1963 church bombing in...