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Emmanuel Felton

  • Lecturer, Yale University
New Orleans, New York
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Author of the forthcoming book The Search for Black Mecca for @harperbooks. Alum of The Washington Post, BuzzFeed News and The Hechinger Report.

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Shaped by political payback and human geography

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By Emmanuel Felton
| The Lens Verified
To understand District 6, Felton and Bennett drove 250 miles through the heart of the district, talking to people all along the way. This is the second story in a four-part series.
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Court deems Black cultural connections as race, not culture

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By Emmanuel Felton
| The Lens Verified
To understand District 6, Felton and Bennett drove 250 miles through the heart of the district, talking to people all along the way. This is the first story in a four-part series. Dorothy Wiley (left), with Tina Sheffield, knew exactly what happens when the government set its sights on her Shreveport neighborhood for a freeway project. She had watched it happen before in two others cities. (Photo by Gus Bennett / The Lens) SHREVEPORT, La. — Three cities. Three Black neighborhoods, 2,000 miles apart.
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He was sentenced to death despite not pulling the trigger. An unlikely coalition saved his life

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By Emmanuel Felton
| Inkl
With all of his appeals exhausted, Charles “Sonny” Burton had already chosen the last meal he would have before being put to death by nitrogen gas at Alabama’s Holman correctional facility: barbecue chicken, banana cake with ice cream, and sweet tea – all things he hadn’t been able to enjoy in years with his diabetes. The writing seemed to be on the wall.
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