Benjamin Hedin

About

A frequent contributor to the Oxford American, Benjamin Hedin is the author of a novel, Under the Spell, as well as the nonfiction chronicle In Search of the Movement: The Struggle for Civil Rights Then and Now. An award-winning and Grammy-nominated filmmaker, he produced the movies MLK/FBI and Lakota Nation vs. United States. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Articles

Do the Right Thing

By Benjamin Hedin

Picking Up the Piedmont Blues

By Benjamin Hedin

Issue 100, Spring 2018

It Had to Be Memphis

King never planned to go to Memphis in 1968, and he spent only four days there in March and April of that year.

By Benjamin Hedin

Issue 103, Winter 2018

John Coltrane’s Spiritual High Point

His command of the saxophone, so legendary, was achieved not for its own sake but because he was searching for a pathway to the divine.

By Benjamin Hedin

Issue 107, Winter 2019

"Keep Your Eyes on the Prize"

By Benjamin Hedin

Issue 118, Fall 2022

Stumbling Stone

To acknowledge removal in ways we have not yet done, finally, be it in the form of stumbling stones, land return, or something else, might add meaning to our country’s image of itself.

By Benjamin Hedin

Issue 121, Summer 2023

The Ongoing Dream

By the time he left Miami, Phillip Agnew had already decided he was going to take over the Florida State Capitol.

By Benjamin Hedin

EVERYTHING ABOUT HIS MUSIC WAS INTERESTING

Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach on Junior Kimbrough’s influence. “It’s proven most of the time to be true: some of the music that I love the most, that I want to live with forever, are records I...

By Benjamin Hedin