Chinua Achebe is president of the town council in his village in Nigeria, a role that brings him more headaches than honors. He’s also a storyteller who hears the music of history, weaves the fabric of memory, and sometimes offends the Emperor as ...
Bayard Rustin was one of the first 'freedom riders', an adviser to Dr. Martin Luther King and A. Philip Randolph, organizer of the 1963 March on Washington. Intelligent, gregarious and charismatic, Rustin was denied his place in the limelight for on...