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Chapter 16
Commencement Address, University of Memphis
"How Bill Russell Changed America," on
Hang Up and Listen
, podcast by
Slate
, 8/22
“Bill Russell’s Legacy of NBA Championships and Cerebral Fight for Civil Rights,”
The Conversation
, 8/1/22
Review of Kostya Kennedy,
True: The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson
, in
Washington Post
, 4/8/22
Zoom lecture, "Framing the Civil Rights Movement," Humanities Texas, 1/22
Zoom lecture, "Teaching the Civil Rights Movement with Primary Source Documents," Humanities Texas, 1/22
"Sidney Poitier set the template for Barack Obama's Rise,"
Washington Post
, 1/13/22
"How Sidney Poitier sold civil rights to America,"
Slate
, 1/10/22
Review of Ben Golliver,
Bubbleball: Inside the NBA's Fight to Save a Season
, in
Washington Post
, 6/4/21
"Shot 55 years ago while marching against racism, James Meredith reminds us that powerful movements can include those with very different ideas,"
The Conversation
, 6/2/21
Review of Luke Epplin,
Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball
, in
Washington Post
, 4/9/21
"Race, History, and Democracy: A Conversation with Charles McKinney," University of Memphis Libraries, 3/15/21
Review of Alan Gaff,
Lou Gehrig: The Lost Memoir
, in
Washington Post
, 6/19/20
"Writing Race: An Armenian-American and African-American History," Society of Armenian Studies, 7/20
“Remembering Wilma Rudolph, the ‘Queen of the Olympics’,”
Black Perspectives
, 10/2/20, co-written with Scott N. Brooks
“Why Protest? Recent Killings Resonate with Black Memphians,”
The Daily Memphian
, 6/1/20, co-written with Charles McKinney
“Tiger Hoops: How UM Basketball Shaped Us,”
Memphis Flyer
, 3/5/20
Review of Kerri K. Greenidge,
Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter
, in
Washington Post
, 1/2/20
“Amateur Status + Big-Time Sports = Hypocrisy,”
The Daily Memphian
, 11/13/19
“Leading While Losing: Benjamin Hooks and the 1980 Presidential Election,” University of Memphis Libraries, October 2019
"The March Against Fear," in
Mississippi Encyclopedia
, 2019
"What I'm Reading" interview with History News Network, 4/18/19
“Politics, Old and New,”
UNC Press Blog
, 4/11/19
Review of Charles Lane,
Freedom's Detective
, in
Washington Post
, 4/12/18
"Why the Republican Party is so Polarizing,”
Washington Post
, 11/6/18
"Democrats' Struggle Over Masculinity 50 Years Ago Still Playing Out Today,"
Salon
, 11/2/18
"Legacy of the 1966 March Against Fear," CSPAN, 9/18
Review of Jane Leavy,
The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created
, in
Washington Post
, 8/18/18
"Why Donald Trump Likes Mike,"
Washington Post
, 8/8/18
"RFK’s Promise, Compassion Still Mourned 50 Years Later,
Memphis Commercial Appeal
, 6/4/18
Review of Keith Hernandez,
I'm Keith Hernandez: A Memoir
, in
Washington Post
, 6/18/18
Op-eds at
Al Jazeera
"An Unseen Light: New Book Chronicles Struggle for Freedom and Equality in Memphis,”
Memphis Commercial Appeal
, 3/25/18, co-written with Charles McKinney
“Karnig Panian’s Genocide: Memory, Identity, and the Editing of
Goodbye, Antoura
,” Beth Sholom Synagogue, 3/18
Review of Marc Perrusquia,
A
Spy
in Canaan
, in
Washington Post
, 4/1/18
“‘An Unseen Light’: On the History of Black Memphis,”
Black Perspectives
, 10/8/18, co-written with Charles McKinney
“Memphis and the Movement,” Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change, 1/10/18
Review of Jonathan Eig,
Ali: A Life
, in
Washington Post
, 9/28/17
“What Would MLK and JFK Do About Statues?,”
Memphis Commercial Appeal
, 9/7/17
Review of John Farrell,
Richard Nixon: The Life
, at
Washington Post
, 3/24/17
Appreciation of Muhammad Ali at
Quartz
MLK50 and
An Unseen Light
,
Memphis Commercial Appeal
, 3/23/18
"Conscience and History: Justice, Martin Luther King, and the Armenian Genocide," Stanford University Press blog, 4/23/15
Interview for "The Obama History Project,"
New York
, 1/15
"'Back to One City’: The 1973 Memphis State Tigers and Myths of Race and Sport,”
Study the South
, 3/16
Interview with Ed Odeven for "Ed Odeven Reporting"
Interview for
Book TV: After Words
about
Down to the Crossroads
Interview with Clay Risen about
Down to the Crossroads