Lewis M. Steel’s autobiography, The Butler’s Child was published by Thomas Dunne Books/St Martins Press in June.
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Viewpoint
Banning the Box is Not Nearly Enough
For those who have been incarcerated, punishment doesn’t end with prison.
Lewis M. Steel
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Culture
Jim Crow in the North
A new history examines the struggle to integrate above the Mason-Dixon Line.
Lewis M. Steel
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A Dream Deferred
Only sustained community activism will reverse the Supreme Court's most recent betrayal of Brown v. Board of Education
Lewis M. Steel