In the vast field of what the world calls “organized religion” are psychological landmines encased in devout goodness and pious sweetness. On the surface this fertile terrain looks safe, but beneath the green grass lurks an array of... Read More

Abigail Lingston, the teenaged heroine of Shirlene Obuobi’s "Devoted", lives a mundane life with her tough and caring foster mother Willy. But dreams of flying and falling terrorize Abigail and, on one occasion, her nightmares become... Read More

Cold War Casualties: Congressman Harry Davenport, the author’s uncle, was a one-term Representative from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania whose political career and reputation were ruined during the “Red Scare” 1950s. This compelling tale... Read More

Ready to play the Saint Saens Piano Concerto #2 with the Houston Symphony Orchestra, Dawn Bailiff stepped onstage, bowed with the conductor to the sound of applause, sat at the piano, and began to play. But what was happening? Her hands... Read More

More than three thousand memoirs by Holocaust survivors have been published. After a long silence, those who lived through the horrors of Nazi brutality now seem to be almost frantically rushing to preserve the dire tale of their... Read More

In 1936 when Ted Postern was hired at the New York Post he became the first African American to cross the color line onto a ?white? newspaper. By the time of his retirement in 1972, he was widely known as “the dean of Black... Read More