Fall 2009...		  


Living in the Universe
By Elizabeth Hoover



His vision for mandkind was so all-encompassing that he was ostracized, for a time, for renouncing his black heritage. But the poet Robert Hayden never lost his faith in the ideal of transcending race.















“I Believe I Could Mark A Picture,”
By Gene Smith

When she chanced upon oil paints, Clementine Hunter embarked on a 40-year career recording her swiftly vanishing world in rural Louisiana.




Cassius Clay’s Louisville
By Michel Marriott

Writer Michel Marriott recalls his youth in the Kentucky City, his family’s famous neighbor, and the black community that shaped a champion.
















Sowing The Seeds of Leadership
By Bruce Nemerov

When the public education of Southern blacks tried to bind them to work in the fields, innovative educators, both black and white, founded a club to teach rural students skills and cultural arts well beyond the curriculum.



The Famous Forgotten
By Johanna Neuman

His blazing success as a pioneering author and journalist was cut short by his untimely death. Roi Ottley’s name seemed to disappear from literary history. An investigation uncovers his story.

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