by Nick DeRiso The timing couldn’t have been better: ESPN Books issues “Third and a Mile,” focusing on black NFL quarterbacks like Grambling products James “Shack” Harris and Doug Williams. And it happens just as two African-Americans advance to the Super Bowl as head coaches for the first time ever.Read More

by Nick DeRiso Thumbing through William K. Greiner’s coffee-table book, The Reposed, I was struck by the way people honor their dead. These stirring photographs, taken at gravesites throughout the Mississippi Delta, also made me think of my own father’s grave — left alone and quiet for better than sixRead More