✕

Celebrate 30 years of the OA.

With original work from Imani Perry, Kristen Arnett, Diane Roberts, and so many others, our Spring Issue honors our past and looks into our expansive future.

Order Now!
✕
Home Magazine Music Photos Podcast
Test⌄
Child Test2
BECOME A MEMBER Shop Login

Benjamin Hedin

About

Benjamin Hedin is the producer and writer of the Grammy-nominated documentary Two Trains Runnin’ and the author of In Search of the Movement: The Struggle for Civil Rights Then and Now.

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