Jan Ransom
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New Yawker, @NYTimes Metro investigative reporter focused on criminal justice,🏆 for coverage of Rikers Island crisis, @HowardU ❤️💙. Say 👋🏾
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http://nyti.ms/2ncOCCB 06-01-2011 04:51:49
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HUGE win for Alvin Bragg, who faced down death threats and political attacks for doing his job.
Mayor Adams vetoed NYC’s ban on solitary confinement for detainees at Rikers. Then City Council overrode his veto. Now, Mayor Eric Adams is hiring a law firm to petition a federal judge to suspend the solitary ban, according to a new letter filed today in federal court.
"40 Acres and a Mule" remains the nation's most famous attempt to provide reparations. Finally, there's been a specific accounting of the 1,250 formerly enslaved Black Americans who were actually given land—only to have it returned to their enslavers. motherjones.com/politics/2024/…
What Mike Sisak 🗒️ said! You will not want to miss this! 😎
Today, I reported w/ The New York Times that the NYPD has been burying cases of police brutality — chokeholds, taserings, and more. Let me tell you about some of those cases. About what happened to the victims. And about what happened to *the officers*
My The Associated Press colleagues captured Americans watching the debate across the country last night and it is stunning.
Democracy in crisis is more important than poll numbers. We seem unable, even now, to shift news coverage consistently towards the unprecedented unrolling of democratic and constitutional norms and the impending cataclysm. We should be listening not to pundits but to scholars of
As media, we consistently proclaim that we are just reporting the news when in fact we are driving it. What we cover, how we cover it, determines often what Americans thinks is important and *how* they perceive these issues yet we keep pretending it is not so. If Americans don’t