A story from Malcolm Gladwell's Blink forces you to wrestle with this critical question: what keeps us from seeing people as they truly are?

Blink is a ...

The film Amazing Grace chronicles the efforts of William Wilberforce (Ioan Gruffedd) to end the British Transatlantic slave trade in the 19th century. ...

On Saturday, July 9, 2007, thousands of people, including state and city officials, gathered in Detroit's Hart Plaza for a funeral. They all watched as ...

The first time the town of Tubingen, Germany, expelled all of its Jewish residents was in 1477. It soon became a place where anti-Jewish doctrines thrived, ...

Catch a Fire tells the real life story of South African Patrick Chamusso, an oil refinery worker who is falsely arrested by the country's anti-terrorism ...

Describing the difficulty of racial reconciliation, one African American church leader tells this story:

It was my third year with the ministry. I got ...

The Long Walk Home, a movie starring Sissy Spacek and Whoopi Goldberg, tells of the relationship between a white housewife, Miriam Thompson, and her black ...

Cry, The Beloved Country, set in 1946 South Africa, tells the story of a black minister who must deal with his son's unintentional murder of a white man ...

June 11, 1963: Tuscaloosa, Alabama, The University of Alabama campus. Vivian Malone, a young black woman, enrolled as a student at the university, but ...

Rosa Parks is one of the most famous names in civil rights history. In 1955, Parks refused to give her bus seat to a white man. She was arrested for her ...

Guess Who is a popular comedy about a young black woman and her white boyfriend. When Teresa brings her boyfriend home to visit her parents, her father ...

In her book Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs wrote these words about her years of slavery: "Only by experience can any one realize ...

[James] Meeks [pastor of Salem Baptist Church in Chicago] hopes to persuade African American and white evangelicals to work together. And he's willing ...

The Education of Little Tree, with James Cromwell, is the story of an eight-year-old, part-Indian boy growing up in the Tennessee Smoky Mountains in the ...

In the middle of the eighteenth century, Christians became increasingly concerned about the slave trade. They amassed information on the inhumane treatment ...

The Jackie Robinson Story is the 1950 movie about the life, challenges, and achievements of baseball star Jackie Robinson. With the help and vision of ...

While many Americans are unaware of the story of Emmett Till, his story may have had the single greatest impact upon the Civil Rights movement. Emmett ...

The Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubric movie A.I.: Artificial Intelligence critiques the tendency of our culture toward dehumanization. In the film, ...

The movie School Ties is about 1950s small-town, working-class teen, David Greene, who receives a football scholarship to St. Matthews, an exclusive prep ...

Several years ago, when I worked as a campus chaplain at Norfolk State University in Virginia, I received a 2 a.m. call from Willie, an African-American ...

Author Ruth Senter writes:

Life sometimes has a way of showing us ourselves more clearly. September 11th, 2001 was such a time for me.

On Monday, my husband ...

Remember The Titans is a movie based on the true story of a Virginia high school football team's climb to the top. The movie is also about a team's ability, ...

Denzel Washington stars in The Hurricane, the true story of professional boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter's life. At the height of his boxing career in ...

The movie Glory chronicles the true story of the first noncommissioned black regiment to fight for the North during the Civil War. The formation of the ...

At a Promise Keepers Conference in Detroit, African-American minister Raleigh Washington said:

When I was born, I was black. When I grew up, I was still ...

Jackie Robinson was the first black to play major league baseball. While breaking baseball's "color barrier," he faced jeering crowds in every stadium. ...