Essays



Must the Professor Crusade? On Literature and Activism



What Makes Me Black? What Makes You White?

The Hedgehog Review, Summer 2018





Dare to Look: Al Clayton and the Photography of Hunger

Gravy, The Journal of the Southern Foodways Alliance, Summer 2018





Virginia Quarterly Review, August 16, 2017

Remembering the Pioneering Black Journalist Simeon Booker, “the Man from Jet”

The New Yorker, December 12, 2017



WIRED, November 7, 2015 (Photo by Tabitha Soren)