JOHN ARCHIBALD is a current Nieman Fellow at Harvard. He is a columnist for the Alabama Media Group. His columns appear in The Birmingham News, The Huntsville Times, the Mobile Press-Register, AL.com and its social brand, Reckon. He won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2018. His book, Shaking the Gates of Hell, published by Knopf, is about his family, civil rights in the South and the church’s role in a conspiracy of silence.
