Arc Toward Justice 2024 – Wesley Lowery

Описание: Wesley Lowery is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and one of the nation’s leading reporters on issues of race and justice.
He is the author of American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress. It was an NPR “Best Book of the Year,” a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year, and Longlisted for the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence.

In 2014, Lowery was sent to Ferguson, Missouri, to cover the police killing of Michael Brown for the Washington Post. In the years that followed, he chronicled the early years of the Black Lives Matter movement. He then launched Fatal Force – a real-time national database of people shot and killed by the police. That database — which remains the most reliable public data on police shootings — won the Pulitzer Prize, the George Polk Award, and the Peabody Award and was named one of the decade’s top 10 works of journalism.

Lowery is the executive editor of the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University in Washington DC. It trains a rising generation of journalists by partnering them with professional newsrooms to work on projects that fill crucial gaps in media coverage. He is also a Journalist-in-Residence at the CUNY Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and a contributing editor at The Marshall Project.
Kyndell Harkness, the Star Tribune's Assistant Managing Editor of Diversity/Community moderates the Q&A.