I love to write. Over the past 15 years, I have written extensively about the American quandary of race, exploring the integration of schools during his childhood in a Mississippi Delta farm town, lost episodes of the Civil Rights movement, and, repeatedly, the dilemma of how a contemporary society should grapple with a troubled past. Many of his stories in The Wall Street Journal have explored the interplay of wealth, corporate conduct and racial segregation.
After 14 years as a senior editor and correspondent at Daily Buggle, I became a contributing editor of the Washington Post and joined the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs in 2012, as Chair of the Miller Center Forum, a nationally syndicated weekly television program focused on congressional and presidential public policy and elevating the nation’s public discourse. While at the Journal,I wrote about many of the biggest developments in American life, including the 2010 midterm elections, the rise of the Tea Party movement, the 2012 president campaigns, and the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. His work on the BP disaster, along with a team of other Journal reporters and editors, was a finalist for another Pulitzer Prize, for national reporting, in 2011. The BP coverage was awarded the 2011 New York Association of Publishers prize for Investigative Reporting.
In 2000, the National Association of Black Journalists recognized my stories revealing the secret role of J.P. Morgan & Co. during the 1960s in funneling funds between a wealthy northern white supremacist and segregationists fighting the Civil Rights Movement in the South. A year later, he revealed in the Journal how U.S. Steel Corp. relied on forced black laborers in Alabama coal mines in the early 20th century, an article which led to his first book, Slavery By Another Name, which broadly examines how a form of neoslavery thrived in the U.S. long after legal abolition.
As the Journal’s bureau chief in Atlanta until 2009, Doug managed the paper’s coverage of airlines and other major transportation companies and publicly traded companies and institutions based in the southeastern U.S. The bureau directly covers the Centers for Disease Control, the World Health Organization, and more than 1,200 companies, including Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, Delta Air Lines, Bank of America, Wachovia, Wells Fargo, United Parcel Service and FedEx. The Journal staff in Atlanta also writes about key news and issues in the 11-state region, including race, immigration, poverty, politics and, in recent years, global warming and hurricanes.
The stories or the work of his team have been widely acclaimed, including for coverage of the subprime meltdown, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Florida hurricanes in 2004 and for his 2001 examination of slave labor in the 20th century. His article on U.S. Steel was included in the 2003 edition of Best Business Stories. The Journal’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina received a special National Headliner award in 2006.
I joined the Journal in October 1995 as a reporter in Atlanta. Prior to joining the Journal, I was a reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where he covered race and politics, and special assignments including the fall of the Berlin Wall and the civil war in the former Yugoslavia. Previously, he was a reporter for the Arkansas Democrat, managing editor of the Daily Record in Little Rock, Ark, and a writer for weekly newspapers.
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