Linton Weeks
Linton Weeks joined NPR in the summer of 2008, as its national correspondent for Digital News. He immediately hit the campaign trail, covering the Democratic and Republican National Conventions; fact-checking the debates; and exploring the candidates, the issues and the electorate.
Weeks is originally from Tennessee, and graduated from Rhodes College in 1976. He was the founding editor of Southern Magazine in 1986. The magazine was bought — and crushed — in 1989 by Time-Warner. In 1990, he was named managing editor of The Washington Post's Sunday magazine. Four years later, he became the first director of the newspaper's website, Washingtonpost.com. From 1995 until 2008, he was a staff writer in the Style section of The Washington Post.
He currently lives in a suburb of Washington with the artist Jan Taylor Weeks. In 2009, they created to honor their beloved sons.
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Strolling through the board games of yesteryear we find some that succeeded and some that faded away.
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Slang words come and go — and some stay on forever.
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In 1920s America the insidious Invisible Empire was not only visible; it participated in otherwise polite society.
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Couples nowadays are tying the knot in original ways — like some pioneering newlyweds in America's past.
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For 50 years, this little-known archive of civil rights activities has gone pretty much untouched and untapped. -
In the mid-1970s, photographer Roy Colmer cruised the streets of New York City. The result: A very particular perception of doors.
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The complicated story behind the simple, repetitive wordplay jest.
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Hundreds of outspoken African-Americans moved America toward emancipation.
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Did daring stories of fugitive slaves perhaps move the national political needle toward abolition?
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For 100 years the pen has been mightier than the boredom for crossword puzzle aficionados.
