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• Through a Lens, Darkly

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  Vanity Fair | September 2007

  During the historic 1957 desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, 26-year-old journalist Will Counts took a photograph that gave an iconic face to the passions at the center of the civil-rights movement—two faces, actually: those of 15-year-old Elizabeth Eckford on her first day of school, and her most recognizable tormentor, Hazel Bryan. The story of how these two women struggled to reconcile and move on from the event is a remarkable journey through the last half-century of race relations in America.

• Only One Athlete Has Ever Inspired This Many Songs

  by David Margolick + Follow

  New York Times | February 2001

• Till Debt Do Us Part

  by David Margolick + Follow

  New York Times Magazine | December 1991