Selected Publications

"Capturing Martin Luther King Jr. and Elvis." Lapham's Quarterly, February 2019. https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/capturing-martin-luther-king-jr-and-elvis

"'Dictator of the Lincoln Belt': Meet the Black Political Operative Who Orchestrated One of the Great Upsets in Presidential Election History." Salon, February 29, 2016. https://www.salon.com/2016/02/29/dictator_of_the_lincoln_belt_meet_the_black_political_operative_who_orchestrated_one_of_the_great_upsets_in_presidential_election_history/

"Memphis Burning." Places Journal, February 2016. https://placesjournal.org/article/memphis-burning/

"A Real-Life Lucious Lyon: The Former Slave Who Built a Beale Street 'Empire' and Transformed Memphis." Salon, April 4, 2015. https://www.salon.com/2015/04/04/a_real_life_lucious_lyon_the_former_slave_who_built_a_beale_street_empire_and_transformed_memphis/

"A Cheap Idea." Virginia Quarterly Review, January 2015. http://www.vqronline.org/essays-articles/2015/01/cheap-idea

Review of Empire of Sin, by Gary Krist, and The Great New Orleans Kidnapping, by Michael Ross. Wall Street Journal, November 2014.

"Sympathy for the Devil." Oxford American, Winter 2014. https://www.oxfordamerican.org/magazine/item/1040-sympathy-for-the-devil