John Archibald

John Archibald

John Archibald is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has written about the American South for more than 35 years, with columns appearing in the Birmingham News, The Huntsville Times, and the Mobile Press-Register. He is also a national Murrow Award-winning podcaster and the author of the critically acclaimed memoir, Shaking the Gates of Hell: A Search for Family and truth in the Wake of the Civil Rights Revolution, which was included in NPR’s list of favorite books of 2021. His Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, awarded in 2018, cites his “lyrical and courageous commentary that is rooted in Alabama but has a national resonance.”

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