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Wesley Lowery is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author and correspondent for CBS News, contributing editor at The Marshall Project, and occasional writer for GQ Magazine.

Lowery was previously a national correspondent at the Washington Post, specializing in issues of race and law enforcement. He led the team awarded the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2016 for the creation and analysis of a real-time database to track fatal police shootings in the United States.

His 2018 proj…

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Dumping Grounds

Dumping Grounds

Stacks of discarded rubber tires, weather-beaten mattresses and bags, boxes and cartons line the streets of G…

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Revelations about Boston Broncos baseball coach divide city's Dominican community - The Boston Gl...

Revelations about Boston Broncos baseball coach divide city's Dominican community - The Boston Gl...

Jose Ortega was a legend in the Dominican communities in Hyde Park, Roslindale, and Jamaica Plain, the cofoun…

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250 Years of Black America

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By Wesley Lowery
| Ebony Verified
As America celebrates its 250th birthday, many of us will revisit and remember pivotal figures from throughout the nation’s history. And while the focus on George Washington and Thomas Jefferson is fitting, I would suggest David Walker be added to the list of those whose lives and legacies we spend time considering this year. To understand Walker is to understand the story of Black people in America in the two and a half centuries from our arrival in 1619 to the end of the Civil War.
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What Happened to Kyren Lacy? Original

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By Wesley Lowery
| Men's Health Verified
IT FELT LIKE the whole world was against him. He needed an escape, perhaps to hide, certainly to rest. And he wanted to see his mom. So, between training sessions, his Louisiana State University classes finished, Kyren Lacy drove to Houston to spend a few days with her. From the minute he arrived at her home, she saw something was off. Different. He wasn’t his upbeat self, his hardworking self. She, of course, knew why.
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Promise That You Will Sing About Me

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By Wesley Lowery
| ContrabandCamp
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.
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