In the North Carolina sharecropper’s shanty where Glenn Settle grew up, his mother used to sing the old Negro spirituals to him. Between songs, she told him: “If white and colored folks just got to ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - They are songs that tell stories of suffering, faith, and hope, but this part of American history that has existed for hundreds of years is in danger of slipping away. Negro ...

While I understandably regard my Second Reading Book Shop as Alton’s premier cultural institution, Hayner Library ranks a close second. I always peruse its newsletter to see what special events it is ...