THICKER THAN WATER: This moving family drama stars Melissa Gilbert as Natalie Jones, a high-powered lawyer who stumbles onto an old photograph and decides to find out more about the life of her late father. Her investigation leads her first...
The best-selling author of Praying for Sheetrock offers a revealing study of the human cost of the AIDS pandemic in Africa, in an inspirational portrait of Heregwoin Tefera, a widowed recluse in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, who has become the car...
Describes the October 1958 bombing of the Reform Jewish synagogue in Atlanta and discusses the role of Rabbi Jacob Rothschild as an early spokesman for racial equality.
Melissa Fay Greene's celebrated nonfiction book takes place in the '70s in a rural Georgia town, where a poor and uneducated black man stands up to the autocratic white sheriff and finds justice.
This report on the 1958 Springhill mining disaster in Nova Scotia tells the story of the first disaster of its kind to capture the interest of the general public, which watched as the entire drama was broadcast on television for days. Melis...