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Making the invisible, visible
By RICHARD L. CONVILLE
Wed,06/24/20-2:24PM , 1,735 Reads
There I was, a six-year-old first grader in Birmingham, Alabama, riding the street car to school each morning. Then, I didn’t notice the two wooden White Only signs mounted on seat backs, one on the right and one on the left of the aisle.
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Tale of three monuments
By RICHARD L. CONVILLE
Wed,06/03/20-10:19PM , 2,803 Reads
There I was, reading a biography of James Agee, prompted innocently enough, by my interest in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.
This unconventional book was the product of his two-month sojourn with three white tenant farmer families in Hale County, Alabama, summer of 1936.
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Two Worlds
By RICHARD L. CONVILLE
Wed,05/20/20-11:18PM , 1,629 Reads
I was fortunate to grow up in two worlds, one rural and one urban: summers and occasional weekends on a farm in the southeast corner of Alabama and the rest of the year in a middle-class, white suburb of Birmingham.
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‘Reagan’s Refrain’ still echoes?
By RICHARD L. CONVILLE
Thu,05/14/20-12:42AM , 2,428 Reads
Since 1980—for 40 years—we’ve heard it: Government is not the solution; government is the problem.
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