The Americans with Disabilities Act passed in 1990, yet according to the author this segment of the population continues to be discriminated against. And he should know, having spent more than thirty years in the field. “I went over to... Read More

“My mother was a slave named Violet4264. I’d always wanted to see where she’d carved her life in stone.” So says Porkpie early on in “C-Rock City,” a tale that looks at an issue as old as humanity itself: slavery. Part of the... Read More

This book is an amazing read by an amazing person. While shops and shelves are piled with inspirational and self-help books written by people with disabilities only luck can lead the reader to an author capable of transporting them to a... Read More

Crazy Horse, an enigmatic Lakota warrior and chief whose life spanned the mid-nineteenth century years of American expansion, has undoubtedly been one of the favorite subjects of Native American biographers during the last sixty years.... Read More

Matt Davis hails from hardscrabble rural Alabama not far from Murder Creek. The account of his early years confirms stereotypes about a place with more bigotry than indoor plumbing. Beginning as he did there is little reason to expect... Read More

“Now, it was forty years later [after the early 1960s civil rights battles in Alabama] and my memory was still forged like a slab of iron. I wondered was all the fighting worth it? The dogs and fire hoses? The tragedy of little... Read More

This provocative compilation of vintage photographs of Plains Indians and selections of their oratory and writings is the latest publication in the Sacred Worlds series, which seeks to illuminate universal religious themes and... Read More

Many authorities label any artwork that has a religious subject “sacred art,” but Titus Burckhardt is different. He posits that art is essentially form, and if the form is borrowed from some type of profane art, the spiritual vision... Read More