Oxford American

Intellectual Historians, and he co-hosts the award-winning podcast Our New South.

Green has written for publications including The Nation, Dissent, Jacobin, and Oxford American.

He's currently working on a book called The Newest South, African Americans and the Democratic Party, nineteen sixty-four to nineteen ninety-four.

It details how the Southern leaders of the Democratic Party in the post-Civil Rights era crafted strategies to attract and hold on to the Black vote across the nation.

Well, that's well put, lawyers.

Um... yeah I mean basically you have to go like okay like I can sue the city and like present my evidence and get retaliated against or I'm just not allowed to sue the city so that's that's the sort of basis of the lawsuit city has not responded so now there's two plus there's also this guy named Zach who has been writing a piece about ice for Oxford American he just sued the city too

for what

I don't

We'll do that next week.

Yeah.

But his Oxford American is a sort of southern literary magazine.

It's great.

I was a reporter and editor and... really on the ground doing the work for a few years there.

Then Oxford American, then this state legislature.

You've got this incredible public service career, which I just think is so inspiring and so awesome, especially for young people who are listening.

You know, one of the through lines that is true for everybody I've had on the podcast is that those of us with this either sort of public service or social impact career journey, we only connect the dots looking backwards.

We never anticipate the roles we'll wind up in on the front end and the journey is in fact the destination, which I love about your career.

We turn this into a four hour episode if we walk through all of it, but there's this through line of service and journalism being important to you.

So it's Arkansas Times in Arkansas, it's the Oxford American, which you take over in a time of crisis.

which is a storied publication that had a deep history and is a sort of cultural institution in the South.