Wesley Lowery

Washington, D.C., United States

Contributing Editor at The Marshall Project

Journalist | Author | Correspondent [email protected]

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Promise That You Will Sing About Me

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.
De-Fuck the Police: Elie Mystal and Wes Lowery Make Policing Great Again

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.
The Best Team in Basketball: Reflections on Friendship and Cavs Fandom

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.
Gatsby’s Secret

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.
The Task of the Journalist | Wesley Lowery

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.
The Return of Trump-VI

Nov 16, 2024 | almendron.com | Nitin K. Ahuja |Susan Neiman |Wesley Lowery

Yuri SlezkineIn 1827 Samuel Pickwick, Esq., and three members of his club arrived in Eatanswill to witness an election. The Pickwickians had no sooner dismounted from the roof of the coach than they were surrounded by a cheering mob. “Slumkey for ever!” roared the honest and independent. “Slumkey for ever!” echoed Mr. Pickwick, taking off his hat. “No Fizkin!” roared the crowd. “Certainly not!” shouted Mr. Pickwick.
The Return of Trump—VI | Yuri Slezkine, Wesley Lowery, Carolina A. Miranda, Nitin K. Ahuja, Susan Neiman

Nov 15, 2024 | nybooks.com | Susan Neiman |Nitin K. Ahuja |Wesley Lowery

Yuri Slezkine • Wesley Lowery • Carolina A. Miranda • Nitin K. Ahuja • Susan Neiman* In 1827 Samuel Pickwick, Esq., and three members of his club arrived in Eatanswill to witness an election. The Pickwickians had no sooner dismounted from the roof of the coach than they were surrounded by a cheering mob. “Slumkey for ever!” roared the honest and independent. “Slumkey for ever!” echoed Mr. Pickwick, taking off his hat. “No Fizkin!” roared the crowd. “Certainly not!” shouted Mr. Pickwick.
The Right to Know

Jul 16, 2024 | knightcolumbia.org | Wesley Lowery

!— Windows 8.1 + IE11 and above —> Essays and Scholarship A case for a federal public trust for media A project aimed at identifying and protecting core press functions In June 1945, the United States Supreme Court issued a 4,900-word opinion that significantly curbed the power of an aspiring monopoly known as the Associated Press (AP). 1. Associated Press v. United States 326 U.S. 1 (1945).
What We Are Owed

Jun 26, 2024 | essence.com | Wesley Lowery

This project is a collaboration between the Center for Public Integrity, the Center for Investigative Reporting, and the Investigative Reporting Workshop. Read more here. Alvin Taylor still remembers the sight each day as he’d return from school, of more houses in his neighborhood being burned to the ground. He was about 8 years old when the fires came for his home.
The new evidence that makes the case for reparations undeniable

Jun 13, 2024 | motherjones.com | Wesley Lowery

40 Acres and a Lie tells the history of an often-misunderstood government program that gave formerly enslaved people land titles after the Civil War. A year and a half later, almost all the land had been taken back. Read more here and listen to a three-part audio investigation here. Alvin Taylor still remembers the sight each day as he’d return from school, of more houses in his neighborhood being burned to the ground. He was about 8 years old when the fires came for his home.