#wesley lowery

[wah-pah]

Gatsby’s Secret

Read as the story of a passing Black man, "The Great Gatsby" is the great American novel.

[gwydionmisha]

New book looks at the cycles of racial progress and white backlash

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of the new book "American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress" Wesley Lowery

[thebsideofthings]

"Moral clarity would insist that politicians who traffic in racist stereotypes and tropes — however cleverly — be labeled such with clear language and unburied evidence. Racism, as we know, is not about what lies in the depths of a human’s heart. It is about word and deed. And a more aggressive commitment to truth from the press would empower our industry to finally admit that."

- A Reckoning Over Objectivity, led by Black Journalists by Wesley Lowery in the New York Times

[afroeditions]

AMC Developing Series Based on Black Lives Matter Book

'Washington Post' reporter Wesley Lowery penned the book in 2016; writer LaToya Morgan will adapt it for the screen.

[theputterer]

Two strangers bond over country music and beer. Then the gunshots started.

He carried her to safety. And then he didn’t stop until he found her.

this. this is a story. i’m gutted. 

a day-long friendship, a kind man, and the worst news. beautiful writing.

[ekute-ile]

Book 15,2017: 'They Can't Kill Us All. The story of Black Lives Matter' by Wesley Lowery. Fam! The "Ah Ah" ,"Haba" I muttered as I devoured this book can't be counted or measured. I know America has issues but endemic racism has to be the biggest of all. This book chronicling the injustice to a race by a system also explains the platform and spark of Black Lives Matter movements. From Trayvon Martin to Mike Brown to Eric Garner to Sandra Bland to Tamir Rice to Timothy Russell to Malissa Williams to Walter Scott to Corey Jones to Darius Stewart to Seven Guildford to Freddie Gray to Jordan Davis to Philando Castile to Alton Sterling to .......inexhaustible list. These and more are victims of the police/ system/country's injustice, attitude and endemic racism. They truly can't kill us all. We are in this world.....together. Weltanschauung

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https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259988-Scott-King-1986-Letter-and-Testimony-Signed.html#document/p1

[ifjanetranit]

They Can’t Kill Us All was one of the top books of 2016, and I wanted to read a comprehensive account of the recent police related deaths in the black community that have sparked a new wave of civil unrest and demand for justice. Lowery does a nice job of detailing the history of the Black Lives Matter movement (and a few other movements), while also reporting the human stories behind several of the deaths. An important read. 

From Amazon: 

"Electric...so well reported, so plainly told and so evidently the work of a man who has not grown a callus on his heart."--Dwight Garner, New York Times, "A Top Ten Book of 2016" "I'd recommend everyone to read this book because it's not just statistics, it's not just the information, but it's the connective tissue that shows the human story behind it." -- Trevor Noah, The Daily Show A deeply reported book that brings alive the quest for justice in the deaths of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Freddie Gray, offering both unparalleled insight into the reality of police violence in America and an intimate, moving portrait of those working to end it. Conducting hundreds of interviews during the course of over one year reporting on the ground, Washington Post writer Wesley Lowery traveled from Ferguson, Missouri, to Cleveland, Ohio; Charleston, South Carolina; and Baltimore, Maryland; and then back to Ferguson to uncover life inside the most heavily policed, if otherwise neglected, corners of America today. In an effort to grasp the magnitude of the repose to Michael Brown's death and understand the scale of the problem police violence represents, Lowery speaks to Brown's family and the families of other victims as well as local activists. By posing the question, "What does the loss of any one life mean to the rest of the nation?" Lowery examines the cumulative effect of decades of racially biased policing in segregated neighborhoods with failing schools, crumbling infrastructure and too few jobs. Studded with moments of joy, and tragedy, They Can't Kill Us All offers a historically informed look at the standoff between the police and those they are sworn to protect, showing that civil unrest is just one tool of resistance in the broader struggle for justice. As Lowery brings vividly to life, the protests against police killings are also about the black community's long history on the receiving end of perceived and actual acts of injustice and discrimination. They Can't Kill Us All grapples with a persistent if also largely unexamined aspect of the otherwise transformative presidency of Barack Obama: the failure to deliver tangible security and opportunity to those Americans most in need of both.