Investigative reporter at The (Memphis) Commercial Appeal, writing on immigration and much more. Wrote The Book of Isaias, nonfiction on immigrants' kids.
Sep 18, 2020 • 25 tweets • 7 min read
THREAD: I was one of the reporters working on the massive stories this week related to sexual abuse in the world of cheerleading, and I’d like to share a bit of the background of how they came about. 1/24
I’m an investigative reporter with the main newspaper in Memphis, @memphisnews and I contribute to USA TODAY. In early August, my editor in Memphis asked if I would help @USATODAY with a national project on cheerleading. 2/24
Oct 21, 2019 • 25 tweets • 7 min read
Imagine you’re 20 years old and you’ve been offered a job that will pay you $20 per hour - more money than you’ve ever earned before in your life. All you have to do is hand out campaign literature to voters on Election Day. Would you do it? I think most of us would.
So Election Day starts and you go to a polling site and start handing out the papers as instructed. It's simple stuff – ballots urging people to vote for this list of candidates or that list of candidates. Everything seems fine.
Feb 21, 2019 • 21 tweets • 5 min read
Thread - Given the national discussion about racist images in yearbooks, I wanted to share some items I discovered while doing research some years ago.
I was writing the nonfiction book “The Book of Isaias,” about children of Mexican immigrants growing up in Memphis.
