New York Times
Army Corrects the Record About Pvt. Albert King, a Black Soldier Killed by a White Sergeant in 1941
He is one of dozens of Black soldiers killed on or near U.S. bases because of their race but whose stories were papered over. (December 2022)
Finally, a photo of Pvt. Felix Hall alive
A historian in Georgia turned up the photo. For years, researchers only had images of his dead body. (August 2021)
Washington Post
Army to memorialize Black soldier lynched on base 80 years ago
Pvt. Felix Hall’s killers were never brought to justice. (August 2021)
Albert King Is Not Forgotten
A Lynching Kept Out of Sight
Pvt. Felix Hall was a promising young soldier. Why did the government fail to find his killers? (Sept. 2016)
Spacing Magazine
On Collecting Oral Histories About Toronto During a Pandemic (multi-author series, June 2021)
How to create an oral history project about cities
Urban oral history: A tale of two immigrant neighbourhoods (by Rathusa Rameshkumar)
Urban oral history: Understanding The Village of the 1970s and ’80s (by Hannah Curtis)
To understand cities we must talk to elders more (by Aditi Mehta)
Washington City Paper
A Devastating Rise in Homicides in D.C.
Causes of Death: Why Is D.C.’s Homicide Count Rising Again? (Jan. 2020)
Three Men Who Lost Loved Ones Have Ideas About Making D.C. Safer (Jan. 2020)
Places, Everyone
D.C. is a city full of private monuments that the rest of the world doesn’t see. (Sept. 2019)
The People Issue
Maybe their joys, mistakes, and efforts to comprehend the world will inform your own. (Nov. 2018)
A Brief History of Mark Judge and Washington City Paper
The relationship ended poorly — twice. (Oct. 2018)
The Best D.C. Day Trips
It rained half the summer, and D.C. is still thicker with stress than it is with humidity. Take a day trip. (Aug. 2018)
A Charlottesville Survivor Prepares for the White Nationalist Anniversary Rally in D.C.
Last year a terrorist driver injured her and killed Heather Heyer. (Aug. 2018)
Hundreds Will Gather in Columbia Heights Tonight to Protest ICE Raids in D.C.
Advocates report that ICE detained at least 12 D.C. immigrants over the past week. (July 2018)
A Hotline for Immigrants Detained in the D.C. Area Rings Off the Hook
Calls from immigrants newly separated from their children add to an ongoing flood. (June 2018)
A D.C. Playwright Tackles Gentrification in The Intruders
Her company, The New Millennium Howard Players, is seeking a theater to call home. (Mar. 2018)
Stage Guild’s Housing Drama Widowers’ Houses Bears Eerie Similarities to D.C.’s Housing Issues
Houses of Worship Are Re-Creating a Decades-Old Support System to Protect Immigrants
The Unitarians Want to Prepare Us All for Hot Sex
A 96-year-old is among the students at this adult sex-education class in Columbia Heights. (Feb. 2017)
Life Is Hell for Tenants of Giant D.C. Slumlord Sanford Capital
And taxpayers are subsidizing the company. (Feb. 2017)
Shit in Tubs at Sanford Capital Properties
“I don’t sleep in my bedroom. Because where the feces was? It was in the bedroom below mine.” (May 2017)
Boston Globe Magazine
Polaroid and the Projects
Kids in The Port have been photographing their lives and neighborhood since the mid-1960s when the Polaroid Corporation, which was across the street, began donating cameras. (Nov. 2015)
The Boston Globe
Mormon Feminist Movement Celebrates 40 Years
And the struggle continues (Sept. 2014)
An Artist Tattoos a Pier in East Boston
Neighbors like to watch her as she paints. (Sept. 2014)
In Uphams Corner, He Makes Art Hit Home
Boston’s preeminent public artist, Cedric Douglas, outfits an old truck to make a mobile art studio. (May 2014)
Boston’s Beloved Jail Pastor
Yes Magazine
She Found an 1870 Suffragist’s Diary
For Claudia Bushman, a founder of the Mormon feminist movement, it was the discovery of a lifetime. (Mar. 2016)
Lakisha David wanted to trace the roots of ancestors who were documented only as property.
Here’s how she did it. (Jan. 2016)