Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones get personally involved in a gang dispute in "The Real Cool Killers," one of the most provocative cases in Chester Himes's groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series.
Many people had reasons for killing Ulysses Galen, a big Greek with too much money and too [...]

There was only one way for Chester to do things - his own way. Wilson did things the same way; they were best friends. From double-knotting their shoes to cutting their sandwiches diagonally, Chester and Wilson were two of a kind."They really are two peas in a pod," said Chester's mother."Looks like[...]

Few people have been more involved in shaping postwar U.S. education reforms--or dissented from some of them more effectively--than Chester Finn. Assistant secretary of education under Ronald Reagan, and an aide to politicians as different as Richard Nixon and Daniel Moynihan, Finn has also been a h[...]

The appalling effects of civil war are often suffered most horrifically by the ordinary men, women and children involuntarily caught up in it, as it tears asunder the very fabric of their lives. Such was the fate of the citizens of Chester, who for almost four years found themselves at the centre of[...]

Inner healing and deliverance are key issues for those who seek wholeness, but usually these are treated as separate ministries. Chester and Betsy Kylstra break through this tradition and apply a unique, integrated approach to healing mind and spirit. With detailed, documented biblical footing, the [...]

Describes the life and times of unlikely chief executive Chester Alan Arthur, nominated for vice president in 1880, despite never having run for office, his election alongside James Garfield, the assassination of Garfield that propelled him into America's highest office, and his efforts to make swee[...]

The story of the orchestra at Auschwitz told by its conductor. Laks recounts the iconceivable spectacle of SS guards growing teary-eyed at the sound of familiar melodies and in the next moment giving themselves up to the furies of extermination.[...]

"Soul!" was where Stevie Wonder and Earth, Wind & Fire got funky, where Toni Morrison read from her debut novel, where James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni discussed gender and power, and where Amiri Baraka and Stokely Carmichael enjoyed a sympathetic forum for their radical politics. Broadcast on publi[...]