T.R.M. Howard, an unlikely civil rights hero By David T. Beito and Linda Royster Beito, David T. Beito, a professor of history at the University of Alabama, and Linda Royster Beito, the chair of the department of social sciences at Stillman College, are the authors of "Black Maverick: T.R.M. Howard's Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power."
The Ted Kennedy I knew By Michael Dannenberg, Michael Dannenberg was Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's senior education counsel from 2000 through 2005. He is now a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, a nonprofit public policy institute.