Showing posts with label houston. Show all posts
Showing posts with label houston. Show all posts

Friday, July 4, 2008

Now for something TOTALLY random

The New York Times needed me to handle, from afar, this very strange to-do in the Houston area involving the corpse of an unidentified white murder victim and efforts by black activists to use her to desegregate a racially divided county's cemeteries.

Here's the piece I did, which appears in Saturday's newspaper.

Until this popped up, I had absolutely never thought about the question of segregation in cemeteries. Had you?