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  • Sep 11, 2024 | esquiremag.ph | Tom Junod

    Do you remember this photograph? In the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from the record of September 11, 2001. The story behind it, though, and the search for the man pictured in it, are our most intimate connection to the horror of that day. In the picture, he departs from this earth like an arrow. Although he has not chosen his fate, he appears to have, in his last instants of life, embraced it. If he were not falling, he might very well be flying.

  • Mar 21, 2024 | yahoo.com | Tom Junod |Doha Madani

    Brett Morris McAlpin, 53, was ordered to serve 327 months, which is more than 27 years. And Joshua Hartfield, 32, the final former deputy to be sentenced, was ordered to serve 121 months, or about 10 years. McAlpin and Hartfield are two of the six former Rankin County sheriff’s deputies who admitted to subjecting two Black men, Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker, to acts of racist torture.

  • Mar 21, 2024 | nbcnews.com | Doha Madani |Tom Junod

    March 21, 2024, 5:06 PM UTCA judge sentenced another former Mississippi deputy from a self-described "Goon Squad" to federal prison on Thursday for the torture and abuse of two Black men in a racist attack where one of the victims was seriously injured. Brett Morris McAlpin, 53, was ordered to serve 327 months, which is more than 27 years.

  • Mar 20, 2024 | nbcnews.com | Minyvonne Burke |Tom Junod

    March 20, 2024, 5:23 PM UTCA white former Mississippi sheriff deputy who was a member of a self-described "Goon Squad" was sentenced to federal prison Wednesday after admitting he tortured and abused two Black men in a racist attack that left one of the victims seriously injured. Daniel Ready Opdyke, a former deputy with the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department, was sentenced to 17.5 years in prison. Former deputy Christian Lee Dedmon will be sentenced later Wednesday.

  • Mar 7, 2024 | adventuresinjournalism.substack.com | Sari Botton |Tom Junod

    At 58 I’m not supposed to still be ashamed of where I went to college. But I’ve carried that with me my entire career, and last week someone made a sneering comment on X/Twitter that validated my feelings. In response to Joshua Benton’s February 28th Nieman Lab article, “Is The New York Times’ newsroom just a bunch of Ivy Leaguers?

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