Award-winning Writer David Dennis Jr. Joins The Undefeated as Senior Writer – ESPN Press Room

David Dennis Jr., a freelance journalist, educator and commentator based in Atlanta, Ga., has joined The Undefeated full-time as a senior writer covering music for the culture vertical of the ESPN multimedia content initiative on sports, race and culture. A frequent contributor to The Undefeated, Dennis will also write long- and short-form pieces on other topics at the intersection of race, culture and sports.

Dennis will begin his new role with The Undefeated on Monday, June 21.

With David officially joining the team, we are fast-tracking thecontinued expansion of our Culture vertical,said Raina Kelley, Vice President and Editor-in-Chief, The Undefeated.David is at home within The Undefeated brand and will continue to deliver the brilliant and thought-provoking stories hes well known for. Thathes starting during Black Music Appreciation Month is an absolute bonus.

Dennis joins The Undefeated after ten years as a critically-acclaimed and award-winning writer whose work has appeared inThe Atlantic, The Washington Post,Atlantamagazine,HuffPost,Medium, and more. His articles for The Undefeated ranged widely, from a sweeping history of the Black communitys involvement insocial mediato an assessment of rapperKanye Wests career and a look at actressHalle Berrys filmography after the debacle ofCatwoman.

This year, Dennis received the 2021 American Mosaic Journalism Award for his work, including an Atlanta magazinestory Ahmaud Arbery Will Not Be Erased a reflective piece about the young Black man killed while jogging in Brunswick, Ga. Based on confidential nominations from about 150 entries, a panel of 10 journalists from top-tier media outlets NPR, NBC News, CBS News, Telemundo, The Boston Globe,The Wall Street Journal, andOxford American selected Dennis and his work for the prize.

Its been such a delight working with The Undefeated team as a freelancer for years and Im so excited to join the team full-time, added Dennis. I cant wait to tell the stories Im passionate about with writers and editors I admire so much. Im so excited for you all to see what we have in store next.

In addition to his work as a journalist, Dennis served as a visiting professor of Journalism and Social Justice at Morehouse College, the prestigious Historically Black College and University in Atlanta. He was a faculty advisor for the schools newspaper, The Maroon Tiger.

Dennis is currently working on his first book, The Movement Made Us,scheduled for publication by HarperCollins in 2022. The book tells the story of his father, civil rights activist David Dennis Sr., a CORE field secretary in the 1960s and was a member of the Freedom Riders.

A 2008 graduate of Davidson College in Charlotte, N.C., Dennis majored in English and ethnic studies. He later obtained a masters degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism, Media and Integrated Marketing Communications at Northwestern University in Chicago.

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