Dreams from My Father, by Barack Obama

Not long ago, my cousin Katrina Browne (producer/director of Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North) told me she’d read Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. My wife Lindi also read it. They both loved it. I found that I have an...

Amazing Grace

The movie Amazing Grace is now available on video. I saw it in Boston when it first came out in theatres with a group of about twenty of us connected to the Traces of the Trade project. It was a powerful experience. It focuses on the efforts of white Europeans to...

Rule Number Two

One of the amazing things in my life this year (a year in which two of my daughters gave birth to our second and third grandchildren, and Beacon Press said they wanted to publish my book, which fits my definition of an amazing year) is that I’m not the only one...