African Americans

Travelogs: Georgetown

Spotlight's deputy editor, Claudine Weber-Hof, is here to tell us about something special in our November issue: the Travelogs booklet about Georgetown, in Washington, DC.

Mike Pilewski: "On one TV channel, mobs are destroying cities in England. On another channel, mobs are destroying San Francisco. The first is presented as news, and I'm supposed to be shocked by it. The second is presented as entertainment, and I'm supposed to enjoy it."

The truth shall set you free

The Civil War had ended, and the slaves were free. They just didn't know it, because nobody had told them. Mike Pilewski explains "Juneteenth".

World View: Keeping up with the news

In our World View section, we give you up-to-date information from around the world. Listen in to this month's story called "Changing attitudes". It is about changing attitudes to mixed-race marriages in the United States.

The poet of the revolution

Poet Gil Scott-Heron has died, but his call to action lives on, writes Mike Pilewski.

Most famous, but least read

Mike Pilewski asks why more Germans seem to have read Mark Twain than Americans have.

The South will rise again (but not like this)

Mike Pilewski asks: "How should Americans remember the history of the Southern states? Were Confederate soldiers heroes or Nazis?"

Instead of 6,000 languages, just one

"John McWhorter is a very handsome linguist"

Ursula Burns will become the first African American CEO at Xerox.

African-American woman gets top job at Xerox

In a 2003 interview with The New York Times, Ursula Burns, the new CEO of Xerox, said she grew up poor on Manhattan's Lower East Side with "lots of Jewish immigrants, Hispanics and African-Americans, but the common denominator was poverty."

Spotlight Audio 2/2009

London
Tips for stylish shopping

America
On the trail of black history

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