little bit, tell me you views a little bit about who you are, your background, and how you get to the point that you are working on this book. i come from a advocacy background. i m actually a lawyer by trade, and i started in chicago doing policy work from people with criminal records. and trying to light remove burials to employment, and one of the things that became clear to me was that it didn t kind of matter if you shift the policies, if you don t shift the culture. and so i became very interested in not just like narrative work, but in general, one of the different structures of media ownership. what are the ways in which people are able to communicate and plead their own cause. and so that took me into the field that is called immediate justice, which is media rights access in representation. and i did that at center for media justice until i got brought on to change, i spent many years spending the media tax and economic justice department there. it s a really ju
undefeated. his work has been featured in atlanta magazine, the atlantic, the washington post, and the huffington post among other publications. then this is the recipient of the 2021 american music journalism prize. he is a national association of black journalists excellence award winner, and was named one of the roots 100 most influential african americans in 2020. he lives in georgia with his wife, with his two children, and as a graduate of davidson college. his dad, david is a civil rights veteran. he attended baylor university, and earned his law degree at the university of michigan in 1972 he co-directed the challenge of the louisiana democratic structure that resulted in an african american chairman, and majority african american delegation being sent to the national convention. the first time since reconstruction. he is the executive director of the southern initiative project, incorporated. a nonprofit organization that works to ensure quality education for all chi