Memphis native. Former newspaper columnist and podcast host. News journalist at the University of West Alabama. University of Memphis and Jacksonville State University graduate. Cardinals fan.
I write about politics and poverty, history and culture, race and equality and humanity in the Deep South. Splendid stories are everywhere: in 100-year-old basements, in City Council meetings, in church pews, in dusty archives and computer databases, in aging chapels on abandoned military bases, on downtown rooftops, atop bell towers of exquisite churches. Everyone has a story. It's journalists' duty to tell them -- accurately, fairly, and without fear.