by Lise Funderburg | Mar 23, 2009 | Word Up
Today I met one of the actual plaintiffs from Brown v. Board of Ed — John Stokes, who wrote about his high school’s stand against Plessy v. Ferguson in the book Students on Strike. I felt that telltale chill that says: You are witnessing something world...
by Lise Funderburg | Mar 19, 2009 | Food, Word Up
Tomorrow I head down to Charlottesville for the 15th annual Virgina Festival of the Book (March 18-22). It can be hard, as an author, to be “on” for hours at a time (I participated in an author brunch recently that was like speed dating — every ten...
