There was an alarming recent article in the News & Observer. It quoted one student at Green Hope High School… Read Article →

Even the suggestion of racial animus can get you fired these days as a Winston-Salem manlearned recently after he asked an… Read Article →

It is the most commonly denied undeniable fact: our world just keeps getting better. Even as scholars, pundits and the… Read Article →

Why do so many white people put themselves at the center of every story about race? Why do they keep… Read Article →

I wanted to ask my acquaintance if he was experiencing a torturous mid-life crisis or had lost his mind altogether…. Read Article →

Echoing my liberal friends, “frightening” and “absurd” leapt to mind when I first heard about Republican ideas to arm teachers…. Read Article →

In 2013, I renewed my call in the Raleigh N&O that North Carolina remove the Confederate monument that towers before… Read Article →

I was thrilled to see Svetlana Alexievich become the first journalist to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. In my… Read Article →

By J. Peder Zane It happens fairly often. We’ll run a glowing review, and the author will contact me to… Read Article →

In light of recent push to remove Confederate statues, here’s the column I published in the Raleigh News & Observer… Read Article →