The Reader‘s archive is vast and varied, going back to 1971. Every day in Archive Dive, we’ll dig through and bring up some finds.
Skinheads were in the spotlight in the late 1980s; in the fall of 1988 Oprah Winfrey interviewed a group of racist skinheads on her show. As Wyman pointed out, one of the protagonists of his piece, a black Cabrini-Green native and anti-Nazi skinhead named Dwayne Thomas, was in the audience during that taping: