When my executive editor at the Des Moines Register asked me to cover the local fallout of George Floyd’s death for the USA Today network, I had no idea that I’d be documenting a historic string of protests that would extend to all corners of our country and many places in the world. Even as…
The scene was peaceful–as many of the protests have been. As the sun set in the city of Carbondale in southern Illinois on Sunday night, hundreds of people, many wearing masks because of the ongoing threat of the coronavirus pandemic, locked arms in support of systematic change and an end to police violence. Community members…
With the Black Lives Matter movement spreading across the country, the majority of images seen in mainstream media are from white and non-Black (read here on why capitalization matters) photographers. Where I live on Oʻahu, most local coverage has come from non-Black people of color and white people. Yet there are a multitude of highly…
The arrest of CNN journalist Omar Jimenez on live television isn’t just about the First Amendment. It’s also about race. Journalists of color with The National Association of Black Journalists and The National Association of Hispanic Journalists clearly saw it that way with swift condemnations on social media. “#NABJ condemns the arrest of Black reporter…
Clarence Thomas is not evil as many of his critics say nor the hero his backers worship. He’s not the legal incompetent his detractors ridicule. Nor is he the legal visionary many conservatives describe. He’s not the Uncle Tom of racist caricatures drawn by some liberal cartoonists. But his vision of equality couldn’t be more…