"Bear Bryant’s Biggest Score"
by Allen Barra

By the late 1960s college football teams everywhere ?elded black players, but not the University of Alabama’s Crimson Tide. Then its famed football coach, Bear Bryant, decided to break the school’s color line on his own.

"Where Africa Also Lives"
by Audrey Peterson

African customs brought to Brazil 500 years ago survived slavery and flourish today in Bahia’s port city of Salvador.

A trip to old St. Louis, where wealthy African-Americans rubbed elbows with slaveholding whites, to Kansas City, once the nucleus of America’s hottest music scene, and to some provocative points in between