MADURAI: “Black Americans are not subjects of history but participants in the making of history,” said Clayborne Carson.

Dr. Carson says that race and religion are strong drivers of mentalities of people, even youngsters.

Coffee at Riverside is a chat show organized and conducted by students of Riverside School, Ahmedabad. This week the show featured a conversation with Dr Clayborne Carson, the director of the Martin Luther King, Jr, Research and Education Institute at Stanford University.

A group of 15 undergraduate students from Stanford University, who are enrolled in Dr. Carson’s course 'Gandhi, King and Non-violence' at Stanford, are visiting Ahmedabad.

Teachers stand on the historic Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. Photos connected to this write-up by Clayborne Carson.