William was a preacher and a civil rights advocate, the author of many books, a father, a husband, a man of many accomplishments. But by every instinct and with consummate skill, his life could be summed up in another way: he was above all an organizer.
Author Archives: Jed Horne
Opinion Editor Jed Horne is a veteran journalist who was awarded a Pulitzer Prize as part of the Times-Picayune team that covered Katrina and the recovery. He is the author of Desire Street (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005) and Breach of Faith (Random House, 2006, 2008), which was declared the best of the Katrina books on NPR. He can be reached at jedhorne@gmail.com
