by Tom DeWolf | Dec 29, 2010 | Politics, Race, Oppression, Privilege
UPDATE (Jan 1): Gladys Scott calls NY Times columnist Bob Herbert. Read his column about their New Year’s Eve conversation here. “I was happy for the Scott sisters and deeply moved as Gladys spoke of how desperately she wanted to “just hold” her two...
by Tom DeWolf | Mar 25, 2010 | Race, Oppression, Privilege
On Christmas Eve in 1993 Jamie and Gladys Scott left a mini-mart near their home in Scott County, Mississippi. Their car broke down. They hitched a ride from two young men, one of whom they knew. Later that evening the two men were robbed at gunpoint by three...