Notable Narratives Who Gets to Tell a Black Story? This piece is about the making of “The Corner,” a TV series about black drug addicts, told from their perspective. The script was based on a book by a white… November 16, 2004 Nell Lake Which Man’s Army Holmes spent a year reporting this story about two drill sergeants—one black and one white—in a company at Fort Knox, Ky. The piece chronicles their jockeying for power, advancement and… November 16, 2004 Nell Lake Lost in the Music Stabler’s series about a black music prodigy is well-reported and -written. We like the rich detail, the elegant descriptions, deft characterizations. What seems left out are more insights into why… November 16, 2004 Nell Lake Two Jobs and a Sense of Hope In this final, sad chapter of the series, a West African immigrant, Adama Camara, scrubs toilets and wipes tables for 16 hours a day. The world is a grimy, dreary,… November 16, 2004 Nell Lake Dreaming Against the Odds In this second installment of Hull’s series, you’ll find this small example of how even a newspaper article (the voice of which is usually straight and communitarian) can include irony:… November 16, 2004 Nell Lake The Exorcist in Love The subject of this profile is not like most of us. Is she crazy? A hustler? Or does she know things we can’t? We need the writer to make sense… November 16, 2004 Nell Lake Against All Odds Suskind won a 1995 Pulitzer for feature writing for this story and its sequel. He later published a book: “A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner… November 16, 2004 Nell Lake At a Slaughterhouse, Some Things Never Die LeDuff got a job on the cutting floor at a North Carolina slaughterhouse, where the work burns your muscles and dulls your mind. He hacked meat off of bone and… November 16, 2004 Nell Lake Best of Friends, Worlds Apart Ojito profiles two men, one black and one white, who have fled Cuba and live in Miami. In Cuba they were close friends; in America they have grown distant from… November 16, 2004 Nell Lake Shared Prayers, Mixed Blessings This is a fascinating account of an integrated Fundamentalist southern church and its courageous struggles with race. Through his focus on two church couples, one white and one black, Sack… November 16, 2004 Nell Lake Previous 1 … 40 41 42 43 44 Next
