Linn Washington Jr.

Philadelphia

Investigative Journalist at Freelance

Investigative journalist and journalism professor@TempleSMC

Articles

Philadelphia continues history of Black-led protest meetings to fight racial inequities

1 month ago | phillytrib.com | Linn Washington Jr.

Linn Washington Jr. is a journalism professor at Temple University. He was special assistant to Chief Justice Robert Nix of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. The former Philadelphia Tribune editor is also a graduate of the Yale Law Journalism Fellowship Program. The ConversationDefending rights and progress aroused attendees at that January meeting in 2025 as strongly as denouncing forced colonization aroused attendees at the mass meeting 208 years earlier.
Author Ta-Nehisi Coates discusses conditions in Palestine at Swarthmore

2 months ago | phillytrib.com | Linn Washington Jr.

A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research looks at what U.S. adults think about weight-loss drugs like Ozempic or Wegovy. (AP Video: Laura Bargfeld).
Students from Jubilee School give tribute to forgotten Black luminaries at historic Eden Cemetery

Oct 21, 2024 | phillytrib.com | Linn Washington Jr.

Democratic Sen. Bob Casey visited The Philadelphia Tribune on Oct. 16, elaborating his positions on a variety of topics important to his re-election campaign. Visit Phillytrib.com for the full coverage of Sen. Casey's visit.
Milwaukee's Black Businesses Left Out From Contracts as City Hosts RNC

Jul 15, 2024 | communityvoiceks.com | Linn Washington Jr.

Nikki Purvis, left, the president and CEO of the African American Chamber of Commerce of Wisconsin, said she is “not aware” of local Black businesses in Milwaukee that have received RNC convention related contracts. — MORRY GASH/APFinancial benefits from the $200 million boost expected for the economy of Milwaukee from the Republican Party’s presidential nominating convention are bypassing Black-owned businesses in Wisconsin’s largest city, alleges leadership with the Black chamber there.
Milwaukee's Black businesses left out from contracts as city hosts RNC, chamber says

Jul 12, 2024 | phillytrib.com | Linn Washington Jr.

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Ugly Opportunity Lurking Beneath City Hall

Mar 13, 2024 | thephiladelphiacitizen.org | Linn Washington Jr.

Mar. 13, 2024 There’s a pit underneath Philadelphia’s City Hall. This pit is not some long forgotten architectural feature located deep within the bowels of the building with the unique distinction of being the largest city hall in the United States. Far from a distinguished feature of City Hall, this pit is yet another disgusting reminder of the moniker Philadelphia earned for itself: Filthadelphia.
Sea Change In US-Cuba Relations Makes Waves Deep In Desert

Jan 3, 2024 | counterpunch.org | Linn Washington Jr.

Tinduf, Algeria. News about the historic change of relations between the United States and Cuba triggered cheers across the five Sahrawi refugee camps located near this Sahara Desert city located 1,100-miles southwest of Algeria’s capital of Algiers on the Mediterranean Sea. That news elevated hopes among many Sahrawi that the major changes in relations between the U.S. and its longtime, bitter enemy Cuba would lead to the U.S. pushing for changes with its longtime ally – Morocco.
Remembering Charles Blockson: Memorial for ‘man who invigorated Black history’

Sep 21, 2023 | phillytrib.com | Linn Washington Jr.

Charles Blockson, the man whose life’s work liberated fascinating, little-known facts about Black history in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania from the shadows of societal segregation, received a rousing yet respectful memorial service on Tuesday at Temple University. Blockson, the researcher, author and activist who died in June at age 89, was the collector who assembled over 700,000 items about Black history and culture now contained in the world-renowned Charles L.
Philly’s impact on King recognized with historic plaque

Feb 21, 2023 | phillytrib.com | Linn Washington Jr.
Philly’s impact on King recognized with historic plaque

Feb 20, 2023 | phillytrib.com | Linn Washington Jr.