NICOLE J. BURTON

For all the upside of visiting Alabama and Mississippi, and there's much to recommend--The history of the black freedom struggle that...

As my visit to Alabama and Mississippi ends, I encourage those who've said they'd like to visit the Civil Rights Trail in these two...

Before leaving Jackson, I walk down Capitol Street past the site of the 1963 Woolworth's lunch counter sit-ins by Tougaloo College...

I thought I'd spend an hour at the B.B. King Museum in Indianola but two and half hours later, I told the cashier in the gift shop, "You...

Fannie Lou Hamer is one of my heroes. I went with pleasure to her memorial park and gravesite in Ruleville, Sunflower County. Around the...

To sit in the headquarters where Robert Moses and company coordinated the Summer in Mississippi project known as Freedom Summer 1964 is...

I was warmly welcomed at Mount Helm Baptist Church in Jackson. The congregation was wearing red for "Heart Sunday" and the sermon was...

I tried to find a Saturday morning 12-step meeting but Google maps doesn't speak "Jackson" and I ended up in abandoned lots so I went...

I drove west eighty-five miles to Jackson, the state capital, through rolling terrain, pine forests, and flooded fields. I'm staying...

Mamie and Don of the Century B&B made me a wonderful breakfast and learning about my research, Don offered to drive me to James Chaney's...

Heavy rain dampened my enthusiasm to walk about Montgomery but before leaving I visited the Freedom Rides Museum in the old Greyhound Bus...

Researching a new play about a women's civil rights project in Mississippi during Freedom Summer 1964, I thought I'd first visit the new...

Preparing for my author event at Bikram Yoga Riverdale this Saturday, I'm reflecting on how yoga helps my writing. Yoga is a moving...

One week to go and a new version of my play, Swimming Up the Sun, will be shown to the world. Anticipation, curiosity, focus--okay,...

A pro-adoption belief that people who are infertile are entitled to raise the disadvantaged offspring of the poor. By “infertile,” I mean...

My first novel, Adamson's 1969, the coming-of-age story of a Englishman in America, will be published next year. For long-form works such...

This award-winning PBS documentary by Jean Strauss about adult adoptees searching for their roots will surely move and entertain you....

A new anthology from the British Association of Adoption and Fostering called Chosen - Living with Adoption will launch this Friday,...

Apippa Publishing Company published its second title this week. It's an extraordinary war novel, BLOOD CHIT, by Grady Smith. I'm so proud...

Join me for the first full reading of Swimming Up the Sun - The Adoption Play at the Kennedy Center, Sat. Sept. 1 at 1:00 PM in the North...