I was there the night Emmett Till was taken

I was there the night Emmett Till was taken

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The missionary linguist who lost his faith

Dan Everett travelled to the Amazon to convert the Piraha people. It didn’t go to plan. Dan was a young Christian missionary, and his talent for linguistics put him on a mission to convert a small indigenous group called the Piraha in the Brazilian Amazon. He had to communicate w ...  Show more

Why didn't they tell me I was black? Part 2

It took years for Lacey Tezino to discover the truth about her parents – what she found out would upturn everything she thought she knew about her own identity. When Lacey left her rural Texan hometown and went to university in metropolitan Houston, her African American roommates ...  Show more

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