In Charlottesville, Some Say Statue Debate Obscures a Deep Racial Split

By JOHN ELIGON August 18, 2017 CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — One of the joys of growing up, for Deborah Bell-Burks, was sitting on the counter of the general store that her family owned on Main Street, helping her mother bag items and count change. A bicycle...

In Monument Debate, Calls for an Overdue Reckoning on Race and Southern Identity

By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON, ALAN BLINDER and RICHARD FAUSSET August 18, 2017 EUFAULA, Ala. — The facts of Southern history, according to Brad Griffin, are beyond dispute. “It was a slave society,” he said. “They had white...