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BLACK ART: ANCESTRAL LEGACY, High Museum of Art, Atlanta. The influence of an older, African culture shapes these paintings and sculptures by 20th century black artists in the U.S. and the Caribbean. Through Aug. 5.
Today, as he gazes at the Greensboro Historical Museum's sit-in exhibit, complete with four original chrome-and-vinyl stools, Richmond is not frightened. But he is troubled. All around, Richmond sees an enduring legacy of segregation and wonders why things have not improved. "I would've hoped that...
As they do across the nation, economic class divisions further complicate racial rifts, with wealth filling the gaps and poverty widening them. The average black family in Greensboro makes about two-thirds of what a typical white family brings in, and, while the city's jobless rate is only 3.4...
Instead of a populist revolt, the legacy of the 1980s appears to be a widespread sense of civic alienation. This fall an estimated two-thirds of the electorate will not go to the polls. Large numbers of American households resisted sending back their census forms, and this year's tax...
With thousands of jobs and whole communities at stake, the timber industry asks how the U.S. can afford to save the northern spotted owl and the forest it inhabits. Environmentalists, fearful the rich legacy of old growth will vanish, wonder how we can afford not to.