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Wesley Lowery

Washington, D.C., United States

Contributing Editor at The Marshall Project

Journalist | Author | Correspondent [email protected]

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  • 2 weeks ago | contrabandcamp.com | Wesley Lowery

    A playlist of the songs cited in this piece is available here. A few moments after the music video begins, the sight of Kendrick Lamar in a wooden church pew is paired with the unmistakable sound of Luther Vandross.

  • 1 month ago | contrabandcamp.com | Michael Harriot |Wesley Lowery |Elie Mystal

    Unleash (verb)1 To free from, as if from a leash. 2. To throw, shoot or set in motion forcefully. “Unleash.”When President Donald Trump signed an executive order this week called “Strengthening and Unleashing America’s Law Enforcement to Pursue Criminals and Protect Innocent Citizens,” the presidential proclamation did not make policing stronger in any measurable way. Instead, Trump’s directive essentially freed law enforcement from accountability, responsibility and even the law.

  • 1 month ago | clevelandmagazine.com | Wesley Lowery

    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.

  • 2 months ago | contrabandcamp.com | Wesley Lowery

    “...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.

  • Nov 28, 2024 | nybooks.com | Wesley Lowery

    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.

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17 Apr 25

RT @dwallacewells: “I wanted to write a book about how institutions that think of themselves as being liberal contribute to the mythologies…

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10 Apr 25

RT @WesleyLowery: The Great Gatsby turns 100 this month. For years, I’ve been obsessed with Carlyle Thompson’s theory that Gatsby is a pass…

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8 Apr 25

RT @michaelharriot: On April 10 1925, a young writer published his 3rd novel – a commercial disappointment about a man passing for white. 1…