Mark Whitaker
Contributor at CBS Sunday Morning
CBS Sunday Morning contributor and author of “SAYING IT LOUD: 1966-The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement":https://t.co/2tkTQj0wv9…
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Dec 6, 2024 |
sacbee.com | Jodi Picoult |Mark Whitaker
As the holidays approach and the year winds down, Woman’s World editors are reflecting on their favorite books of the year. From sweeping fantasies to romances that made us believe in the power of love again to fascinating memoirs and many more, 2024 was a year filled with extraordinary stories.
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Dec 6, 2024 |
mahoningmatters.com | Jodi Picoult |Mark Whitaker
As the holidays approach and the year winds down, Woman’s World editors are reflecting on their favorite books of the year. From sweeping fantasies to romances that made us believe in the power of love again to fascinating memoirs and many more, 2024 was a year filled with extraordinary stories.
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Oct 17, 2024 |
washingtonpost.com | Mark Whitaker
Review by Mark WhitakerOctober 17, 2024 at 4:23 p.m. EDTTwenty years ago, John Grisham had already written more than a dozen best-selling legal thrillers when he came across a newspaper obituary that he thought had the stuff of a novel. Ron Williamson was a high school baseball star from rural Oklahoma who, after failing a minor league tryout with the Oakland Athletics, returned home to live with his mother and was convicted of murdering a local waitress.
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Mar 18, 2024 |
yahoo.com | Mark Whitaker
In Montgomery, Alabama, wedged between a maze of train tracks and the river, a long-neglected plot of land has been transformed. It's now home to the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, the vision of lawyer and social activist Bryan Stevenson. The 17-acre park, set to open this month, is filled with nearly 50 sculptures by world-famous artists like Kehinde Wiley, Simone Leigh. and Kwame Akoto-Bamfo, collectively evoking the history of slavery in America.
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Mar 17, 2024 |
cbsnews.com | Mark Whitaker
In Montgomery, Alabama, wedged between a maze of train tracks and the river, a long-neglected plot of land has been transformed. It's now home to the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, the vision of lawyer and social activist Bryan Stevenson. The 17-acre park, set to open this month, is filled with nearly 50 sculptures by world-famous artists like Kehinde Wiley, Simone Leigh. and Kwame Akoto-Bamfo, collectively evoking the history of slavery in America.
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