Over a ten-year period, intrepid cultural traveler Alex Heard has been sojourning among America's most intensely religious and political believers - sometimes disturbed, sometimes euphoric, usually b
A gripping saga of race and retribution in the Deep South and a story whose haunting details echo the themes of To Kill a Mockingbird In 1945, Willie McGee, a young African-American man from Lau
A Washington Post Best Book of the Year In 1945, a young African-American man from Laurel, Mississippi, was sentenced to death for allegedly raping Willette Hawkins, a white housewife. The case was
