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In 2018, Tom LeGro was part of a team of Post reporters who were awarded a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Senate candidacy of Roy Moore and a subsequent effort to discredit The Post's reporting. As Deputy Director of Video, Tom oversees an award-winning team of video journalists who work across the newsroom, including in National, Climate, Metro, Style and Technology.
Joan Didion’s nephew reflects on her legacy and inspirations: ‘Life was her material’
Jeffrey Brown: She captured moments in American culture with penetrating clarity and style, from the Manson murders, to the case of the Central Park Five, and then turned those same observational powers onto her own intimate losses and grief.
McCain: ‘Get out of here, you low-life scum’ (VIDEO)
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) confronted anti-war Code Pink protesters at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Thursday, saying "Get out of here, you low-life scum." The hearing, to include testimony from former secretaries of state Henry Kissinger, Madeleine Albright and George Shultz, was on global threats and national security strategy.
An oral history of the U.S. women’s national team’s march to the 2019 World Cup title
By Steven Goff and Liz Clarke | Videos by Sarah Hashemi and Tom LeGro June 11, 2020 The loss of sports during the novel coronavirus pandemic deprives us of competition and rivalries, of roaring spectators and instant replay, of joy and sorrow in pursuit of athletic excellence. It also leaves us without championships, those indelible moments when we are extended a hand and invited onto the podium.
Conversation: Tony Hoagland on ‘Poems That Could Save America’
“Twenty Little Poems That Could Save America.” There are many assumptions, questions and provocations in the title of an essay in Harper’s Magazine by poet Tony Hoagland, who clearly has a thing for great titles: Among his books of verse are “Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty” and “What Narcissism Means to Me.” Hoagland teaches at the University of Houston, and I talked to him by phone earlier Friday: JEFFREY BROWN: The beginning premise here is that something needs saving,...
Melania Trump, Laura Bush Condemn US Policy of Separating Migrant Kids From Parents
Between April 19 and May 31, nearly 2,000 migrant children were separated from their parents at the US-Mexico border by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), according to the Associated Press. They were subsequently sent to foster homes or detention centers. The practice is part of the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy for migrants who cross the border seeking asylum, and the United Nations has called it a human rights violation.
DC blooms: Where to find cherry blossoms in the Washington D.C. region
Washington Post Reader photos Click on the map markers to see geotagged portraits of cherry blossoms around the region. If you want your cherry blossoms to appear on our map, check out these instructions on how to geotag photos and video on Instagram and Twitter. Then share your image with the hashtag #DCblooms. By Emily Chow and Phoebe Connelly. Edited by Casey Capachi and Tom LeGro. Illustration by Alberto Cuadra.
In Haiti, Art Remains a Solid Cornerstone
A painting of the earthquake by an unknown Haitian artist. Photo by Thony Belizaire/AFP/Getty Images. Jan. 12 marks the first anniversary of the devastating earthquake in Haiti. Among the millions of Haitians still homeless and rebuilding their lives are artists — painters, musicians, writers.
Weekly Poem: 'Olives'
Sometimes a craving comes for salt, not sweet, For fruits that you can eat Only if pickled in a vat of tears— A rich and dark and indehiscent meat Clinging tightly to the pit—on spears Of toothpicks maybe, drowned beneath a tide Of vodka and vermouth, Rocking at the bottom of a wide, Shallow, long-stemmed glass, and gentrified, Or rustic, on a plate cracked like a tooth, A miscellany of the humble hues Eponymously drab— Brown greens and purple browns, the blacks and blues That chart the slow...
McCain: ‘Get out of here, you low-life scum’
By Tom LeGro January 29 at 12:11 PM Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) addresses an anti-war protester at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Jan. 29. (C-SPAN) Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) confronted anti-war Code Pink protesters at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Thursday. The hearing, to include testimony from former secretaries of state Henry Kissinger, Madeleine Albright and George Shultz, was on global threats and national security strategy.
Ferguson, six months later
On the small side street where Michael Brown was shot, a memorial of stuffed animals, candles and flowers remains. This gas station was set aflame by vandals August 10. The rubble that remained became a town square during the weeks of chaos that followed. During weeks of unrest, stores like Ferguson Market were consistently looted. Six months later, some stores remain boarded up, their owners unconvincedthat this period of volatility is really over.
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