Jacob's Ladder: Play co-penned by longtime activist David Mixner gets raves in Austin.
StoryCorps conversation: Accepting his daughter as gay was like a weight lifted off him. "Deidra Robinson and her father, William Watford III, were extremely close — until she told him she was gay. They came to StoryCorps in Homewood, a suburb of Birmingham, Ala., to talk about that moment."