Articles

“Searching for New Communities: a 1968 Trip to Israel and its Radical Hope for Southwest  Georgia,” Journal of Southern Religion (forthcoming, 2025)

“The History of Rural Black Land Loss,” (with Allie Roberts, UNA alum), Time, December 17, 2023

“The Forgotten School Integration Story that Challenges what we think we know,” Time, Nov 1, 2023

“As in the 1950s, A grassroots civil rights movement can reshape Tennessee,” The Washington Post, April 17, 2023 (co-authored with Anthony Siracusa)

“Charles Sherrod, an important civil rights activist, has died,” The Washington Post, October 13, 2022

*reprinted in the Congressional Record of the United States

“Americans fighting for two victories in World War II only got one,” The Washington Post, May 8, 2020 (co-authored with James Strasburg) 

“Kneeling During the National Anthem isn’t Disrespectful. It’s Protest Steeped in Religion,” The Washington Post, May 29, 2018

*Reprinted in The Taunton Daily Gazette, The Herald News ; cited in D. Ashley 

Campbell, Religion in the American newsmedia (2020), The Marshall Project 

“Don’t call Christians who support Trump hypocrites,” The Washington Post, July 26, 2018 

*Reprinted in the Black Christian News Network 

 “The Road to Charlottesville Runs Through Americus, GA,” The Activist History Review, October 2017

“Partying ‘The Atlanta Way’?: Freaknik and Black Governance in 1990s Atlanta,” Atlanta Studies, September 2017

 “‘God and the Devil on Equal Plane’: School Desegregation, Private Education and Engel vs. Vitale,” North Alabama Historical Review, Spring 2015

*cited in the Georgia African American Historical Preservation Network, Reflections, Vo. XIV, No. 2, 2017

Public History and Press

Regular Contributor, “The Anxious Bench,” Patheos, 2023-

Co-Director (with Dr. Brian Dempsey), Civil Rights Struggle in the Shoals Project, 2018-2021

Wake Up with WURD and  Solomon Jones, Interview on Rural Black Land Loss,  Jan 4, 2024

“The Religious Significance of Taking a Knee,” Deseret News, April 14, 2020

“Race and Remembrance in Hank’s Hometown,” Buried Truths, NPR, April 1, 2021

“A Look at the Phenomenon of Freaknik,” WABE, May 15, 2019 

 “The White Southerners Who Fought US Segregation,” BBC News, March 12, 2019; 

Interview, WNPR, Colin McEnroe Show, August 1, 2018 

“Alabama Moves Ahead with Rosa Parks Day,” AL.com, March 13, 2018