John Nguyen entered Yale with plans to become a neurosurgeon. Instead, he found his calling as a writer.
As a student at Harding Senior High School in St. Paul, Minnesota, Nguyen had been laser-focused on STEM subjects. But after taking some English...
In April of 1980, three men traveling in a car on a street in Chattanooga, Tennessee fired shotgun blasts at four Black women waiting for a cab. A fifth women was hit by flying glass.
The driver and his two passengers were all members of the Ku Klux Klan...