I think they had a comfort with me that i was not trying to exploit my story. And so when we started chatting, it felt like i was talking to a friend, rather than i was interviewing some one. I didn't even look at the demographics of runners world. Like you not going to see no poor people jogging in the hood, unless they boxin or, you know, like for a sport,. but just recreational joggers.
Mitchell S. Jackson is a journalist and author. His profile of Ahmaud Arbery, ”Twelve Minutes and a Life,” won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.
”What is 'great'? 'Great' isn’t really sales, right? No one cares what James Baldwin sold. So: Are you doing the important work?”
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