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2005 Season
 Timothy B. Tyson is a professor of Afro-American studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power (1999)
Blood Done Sign My Name (2004)
Baptism
"Daddy and Roger and 'em shot 'em a nigger." That's what Gerald Teel said to me in my family's driveway in Oxford, North Carolina, on May 12, 1970. We were both ten years old. I was bouncing a basketball. The night before, a black man had "said something" at the store to Judy, his nineteen-year-old sister-in-law, Gerald told me, and his father and two of his brothers had run him out of the store and shot him dead. The man's name was Henry Marrow, I found out later, but his family called him Dickie. He was killed in public as he lay on his back, helpless, begging for his life.
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