by Ken Makin, cultural commentator Stepping foot on Claflin University's campus in Orangeburg, South Carolina, is walking onto...

Their names do not roll off the tongue with the familiarity of, say, John, Paul, George and Ringo—the Fab Four Beatles.  But in their...

John Marshall Harlan was a man of many contradictions.  He was an opponent of chattel slavery, and against Lincoln's Emancipation...

As a survivor of the Nazi holocaust, Gidon Lev should be bitter, angry and unforgiving.  But he isn't.  He's an eternal optimist, and...

Poetry is a sort of writing shorthand, that cuts through the world's grief, and reveals the divine truth that governs the universe. Or,...

There was so much that neeed to be overcome--a mountain of prejudice in the form of state-required segregation (a.k.a. Jim Crow), of...

At the outbreak of World War II, Chrysler Corporation was awarded the lucrative government contract to build U.S. Army Tanks for...

At the outbreak of World War II, Chrysler Corporation was awarded the lucrative government contract to build U.S. Army Tanks. To do so,...

You have to love a guy who can laugh at himself. You can be sure he likes people and above all enjoys life. Now imagine that someone is a...

No one would ever accuse Ben Jonson of modesty—or tact. He took life by the horns, consequences be damned. A bricklayer’s son, he rose to...

Could it be? William Shakespeare—the world’s greatest playwright—was better known in his day as one of the great actors of the London...

The one disciple who understood Jesus’s message with the greatest clarity was John, “The Beloved Disciple.” This is the very John who...

Who was Jesus? All Christian faiths look to him as their Lord and Savior. In the first century, he was given the title of Messiah, which...

I first learned how to pray—and the value of humility—in Christian Science Sunday School. Once, when I was seven or eight years old, I...

The Bible was the book most quoted at the Constitutional Convention in 1787. Indeed, the very ideals that exalted the Declaration of...

It was not a good time to be a prophet in Judea. The tiny nation-state had been occupied for the past 300 years, and the latest occupiers...

Frederick Douglass was a man of many parts.  Born into slavery, he rose from bondage and forced labor, to become a self-educated man, a...

It was threatening to become an international incident.  The United States had the Crown of St. Stephen locked up in the vault at Fort...

The first time Arshay Cooper laid his eyes on one of the "long, thin, snazzy white boats" of crew racing was in the gym at Manley Career...

If you belong to any one of a number of the protestant religions, you owe a debt of gratitude to Martin Luther. It was he who launched...