Samuel G. Freedman

Biography

Samuel G. Freedman, a professor of journalism at Columbia University, is the author of eight books, including Upon This Rock: The Miracles of a Black Church (HarperCollins, 1993) and Breaking The Line: The Season in Black College Football That Transformed the Sport and Changed the Course of Civil Rights (Simon & Schuster, 2013). He also writes the “On Religion” column for the New York Times.

See Work

CRITICISM / Fall 2016

Black Stories Matter

By Samuel G. Freedman

During the summer of 2013, shortly after George Zimmerman was acquitted of the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager named Trayvon Martin, word leaked out that a juror was already shopping around a prospective book about the case. One...