Black and White and Married in the Deep South: A Shifting Image

Sonia Cherail Peeples and Michael Peeples, married with two sons, met as students at the University of Southern Mississippi.
By SUSAN SAULNY
Published: March 19, 2011

HATTIESBURG, Miss. — For generations here in the deepest South, there had been a great taboo: publicly crossing the color line for love. Less than 45 years ago, marriage between blacks and whites was illegal, and it has been frowned upon for much of the time since. More

Family Trees

1390

Ringing In the Year 1390
By POROCHISTA KHAKPOUR
Published: March 19, 2011

MARCH 1981. My mother, all curves and decorum in her uptight Chanel suit, and my father, all stutter, glasses and advanced degrees, walked into an Alhambra, Calif., apartment: two bedrooms, one bathroom, furnished, $450 a month. It’s not nice — it’s not Paris of the last several months, no Tehran of the ’70s — but they took it. Everything is going to be different, but just for now, they kept telling themselves, this is temporary, all the change. More

There Wuz No Moon

Over Our Fair Cities last night. Damn clouds.