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Wesley Lowery
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Contributing Editor, The Marshall Project
Washington
Beats
Biography
Wesley Lowery is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author and correspondent for CBS News, contributing editor at The Marshall Project, and occasional writer for GQ Magazine. Lowery was previously a national correspondent at the Washington Post, specializing in issues of race and law enforcement. He led the team awarded the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2016 for the creation and analysis of a real-time database to track fatal police shootings in the United States. His 2018 project, Murder With Impunity, an unprecedented look at unsolved homicides in major American cities, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2019. His first book, They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement, was a New York Times bestseller and was awarded the Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose by the LA Times Book Prizes.
corruption and women's healthForeign policy; international affairs; global security; the humanitarian implications of migration political participation
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Content
By Wesley Lowery Verified| ContrabandCamp@ “...of all of the reviews, even the most enthusiastic, not one had the slightest idea what the book was about…” — F. Scott Fitzgerald, in a May 1925 letter to literary critic Edmund WilsonOne fall semester in the late 1990s, Medgar Evers College professor Carlyle V. Thompson was assigned to teach “Introduction to Literature,” obligating him to revisit The Great Gatsby. F.
By Wesley Lowery Verified| Cleveland Magazine Verified When I lived in New Jersey, I always kept my bedroom window cracked, listening for the hollow sound of orange leather hitting the asphalt of the driveway a few houses down. The boys who hooped there were older kids, middle and high schoolers with wave caps and Jordans, who as long as I wasn’t too annoying, let me sit and watch and learn.
By Wesley Lowery Verified| New York Review of Books Verified In the days since the election, I’ve found myself revisiting an essay on the journalist’s role in a free society by the Reverend Levi Jenkins Coppin, editor of the AME Church Review, included in Irvine Garland Penn’s influential 1891 volume The Afro-American Press and Its Editors. “The journalist is the people’s attorney,” Coppin wrote, at a moment when a new generation of black journalists was emerging to document Jim Crow’s horrors.
Company Info
The Marshall Project
The Marshall Project is a nonprofit news organization focused on the U.S. criminal justice system. Founded in 2014 by Neil Barsky, it aims to highlight the need for reform in a system that often perpetuates racial and economic inequities. The organization is named after Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and is dedicated to creating a sense of urgency around these issues. The Marshall Project provides high-quality journalism that exposes injustices within the criminal justice system. It also offers multimedia content, including video series and publications like "The Marshall Project Inside," which reaches incarcerated individuals in over 1,300 prisons and jails. Additionally, it has established a local network in cities such as Cleveland, Jackson, and St. Louis to cover regional criminal justice issues. The organization serves a diverse audience, including legislators, justice system professionals, and families of incarcerated individuals. It has received multiple awards for its impactful reporting and has secured grants to support its initiatives.
New York, New York, United States
+1 212-803-5200
Founded: 2014