Officer Terry Ashe's initial report could have just said that his unmarked cruiser's left bumper was bitten by an alligator. ...more

November 6, 2009

Roger Landers, a noted local historian, listed some annotations of local African-American and white churches. ...more

November 27, 2008

I stood alone at the corner of the 300-year-old rock church in Wilmington, Del. The only other living being seemed to be an angry squirrel, hanging upside down in a maple tree, his tail shaking as he made it clear I was not welcome in the old cemetery. ...more

September 28, 2008

Ten years after James Byrd Jr. was dragged to death down a three-mile stretch of country road simply because he was black, some things have changed in Jasper. ...more

June 7, 2008

Faced with a mountain of overtime debt, officials in this small, east Pasco County municipality have come up with a novel approach to compensate workers: offering them plots in the city's cemetery. ...more

May 29, 2008

Each year for the past 27, descendants of the founders of this community near Plant City have gathered to break bread and take care of the business of maintaining the cemetery where many of their relations are buried. ...more

May 7, 2008

For Florence Sikes, taking care of the 121-year-old Hackney Cemetery is taking care of family. ...more

November 19, 2007