Novelist John Searles

Fresh Air

Published December 12, 2002 at 12:00 AM EST

He is the author of the bestseller Boy Still Missing, which is now available in paperback. He relates the saga of getting his photograph taken.

'Down Home Music' documents decades of American music in pictures

Beginning in 1960, the late Chris Strachwitz traveled the country recording musicians who he presented on his label Arhoolie Records.
A Black Texas student has been suspended once again for his natural hairstyle

Jonathan Franklin

Darryl George, 18, showed up for class on Tuesday at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu, Texas, before being removed and placed back into in-school suspension for natural hairstyle.
The College Board releases a new framework for its AP African American Studies course

Joe Hernandez

Controversy swirled around the new course after it was rejected by the Florida Department of Education, with conservative critics accusing the College Board of bias.