Temple-Raston, Dina

Chronicles the events surrounding the 1994 Rwandan genocide, focusing on the role the media played in the killings and tracing the rise and fall of three media executives who played a key role in the violence.

Offers a portrait of a group of young Yemeni-American men from an upstate New York steel town near Buffalo, who in spring 2001 attended an al-Qaeda camp and who may--or may not--have become America's first sleeper cell of Islamic terrorists.

Explores how the town of Jasper, Texas was forced to face its racist past after three white men chained a forty-nine-year-old African-American man named James Byrd Jr. to the bumper of a truck and dragged him three miles down a country road on June 7, 1998.