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THE LINE OF FIRE

November 2019

Finalist for the 2020 Deadline Club sports reporting award. Best American Sportswriting 2020 Notable selection.

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HOW VIRAL DUNKERS CAN REVOLUTIONIZE WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

Summer 2017

Explored this same topic on the Spinsters podcast "Why Don’t People Think Women Can Dunk" in early 2021.

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DEBUNKING GREEN BOOK: JAZZ GREATS ON WHAT IT WAS REALLY LIKE TO TOUR DURING JIM CROW

February 2019

Includes several interviews with jazz legends.

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Q&A: CHARLEY CROCKETT, CONTEMPORARY COUNTRY’S MOST PROLIFIC TROUBADOUR

April 2021

A Q&A from Don't Rock The Inbox, Natalie's newsletter with fellow country writer Marissa Moss, which you can subscribe to here.

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Even more:

30 Years of ‘Nick of Time’: How Bonnie Raitt’s ‘Underdog Record’ Swept the Grammys & Saved Her Career

Billboard, March 2019

Tina Charles Is a W.N.B.A. Superstar Hiding in Plain Sight

New York Times, September 2020

In 2000, Two Hits From Totally Different Genres Got Revenge Against Abusers -- And Provoked Tellingly Different Reactions

Billboard, March 2020

Jimmy Cobb, The Pulse Of 'Kind Of Blue,' Dies At 91

NPR, May 2020

For Michigan’s Players, Activism Has Been Season’s Theme

New York Times, March 2021

Re-Revising 'The History Of Jazz'

NPR, July 2021

20 Years of ‘Baduizm’: The Story of Erykah Badu’s Classic Debut

Billboard, February 2017

We Belong Together: Mariah Carey’s Collaborators Share Untold Stories Behind 8 Classics

Billboard, April 2016

The WNBA is at a turning point, and the stakes could not be higher

SB Nation, May 2019

At Super Bowl LIII, Kaepernick’s presence is felt everywhere

SB Nation, February 2019

For NFL practice squad players, the ‘checks aren’t what you think they are’

SB Nation, November 2018

The WNBA’s male practice squads lose to women all the time — and enjoy it

SB Nation, May 2019

Notre Dame’s Relentless Swagger Sparks Biggest NCAA Championship Comeback Ever

Bleacher Report, April 2018

What It’s Like to Have LeBron James at Your Basketball Tournament

Bleacher Report, July 2018

‘Swingin’ in Seattle’ Finds Cannonball Adderley at a Crossroads, Reaching Out and Speaking Up

WBGO, January 2019

Sonny Rollins: Way Out West

Pitchfork, February 2018

With one raw, irresistible song, James Brown found the sound of the racial unrest of 1967

Timeline, June 2017

Ray Charles: Modern Sounds in Country & Western Music Volumes 1 & 2

Pitchfork, February 2019

Donald Byrd Was The Future

Vinyl Me Please, September 2018

How Aretha Franklin’s Jazz Beginnings Predicted Her Genre-Transcending Career

Rolling Stone, August 2018

It’s Still Not Betty Davis Time, But We’re Getting There

JazzTimes, September 2019

Miranda Lambert Goes Home Again on 'The Weight of These Wings’: Critic’s Take

Billboard, November 2016

Why D'Angelo’s 'Untitled’ Video Is Still Uniquely Provocative, Nearly Two Decades Later

Billboard, July 2018

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