It is probably not read much anymore, certainly not as often as it should be. But in the 1960s, John Howard Griffin’s “Black Like Me” was a bestseller and could be found on many high school reading ...

Black Like Me is a deep-dyed message fHm about a white man who passes for black. In it, James Whitmore conscientiously re-enacts the real life odyssey of John Howard Griffin, a Texas journalist who ...

From left to right: William Markoe, John Howard Griffin and John Markoe in 1965. More info on the Omaha DePorres Club You can buy Holland’s book here. The idea for the book started when he looked in ...

A peculiar desire seems to still haunt some white people: “I wish I knew what it was like to be Black.” This wish is different from wanting to cosplay the coolness of Blackness – mimicking style, ...