Essays
The Common, Issue 12, November 2016
Mississippi Delta: Returning Home to Its Haunted Past
On how literature holds the power to change the way we look at the world.
Must the Professor Crusade? On Literature and Activism
What Makes Me Black? What Makes You White?
The Hedgehog Review, Summer 2018
The New Yorker, April 30, 2016
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)
The American Scholar, Spring 2013
