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@WesleyLowery

Journalist | Author | Correspondent [email protected]

Washington DC Katılım Mayıs 2008
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Wesley@WesleyLowery·
A year ago today, LSU’s star wideout Kyren Lacy took his own life, 2 weeks before the NFL draft. I’ve spent a few months with his friends and family, and reexamining the police records, to try to sort out the legal case he found himself ensnared in menshealth.com/trending-news/…
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Emmanuel Felton@emmanuelfelton·
My first story since being laid off from the Washington Post. He'd already picked his last meal. Two days later, the governor called it off. The inside story of how Sonny Burton was saved from Alabama's death chamber: theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int…
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outside the WH tonight
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McKay Coppins@mckaycoppins·
Last year, I met a Mexican athlete who told me an incredible story—that he’d been kidnapped in 2023 and forced to compete for his life in a secret tournament of cartels. Once I started reporting, the story only got more surreal. For the May issue: theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/…
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possibly the high water mark of whimsical virality, it’s all been downhill since: “Around St. Patrick’s Day in 2006, a morning news program in Mobile​, Ala., aired a story​ that turned heads: Someone claimed to have spotted a leprechaun…” nytimes.com/2026/03/17/us/…
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“Practically overnight, we took an ancient vice—long regarded as soul-rotting and civilizationally ruinous—put it on everyone’s phone, and made it as normal and frictionless as checking the weather. What could possibly go wrong?” theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/…
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Longreads@Longreads·
"Tom’s work has always asked whether uncovering the truth of someone, the deep truth, is worth the pain required. His book cost a great measure of pain but finally gave him an answer." @JohnGHendy @Esquire esquire.com/entertainment/…
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philip lewis@Phil_Lewis_·
Rep. Al Green was holding a sign that reads "Black People Aren't Apes" at the #SOTU:
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The Ringer@ringer·
Jesse Jackson died Tuesday at the age of 84. The civil rights icon always held America to account—and never stopped fighting to preserve what he knew could be taken away. @byjoelanderson: theringer.com/2026/02/18/nat…
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Wesley@WesleyLowery·
this caricature of Jackson as an anti-white, anti-Semitic demagogue never reflected the man. The entire point of Jackson’s “Rainbow Coalition,” his vision of Americans from all backgrounds coming together for social justice, was overcoming such differences theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/…
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Eugene Scott
Eugene Scott@Eugene_Scott·
“To the people around me, Jackson—the reverend and civil-rights leader—was a hero. But to the people I saw discussing the news on television, he was both an incendiary agitator and a ridiculous, almost comic, figure.” theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/…
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there’s a barely-concealed condescension that frames (white) mainstream discussion of Jesse Jackson - he was “complex”, “personal failings”, “self promotion” “ego” - that, functionally, denies him his rightful mantle: possibly the most important political figure of his era

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Abby D. Phillip
Abby D. Phillip@abbydphillip·
A beautiful tribute to Rev. Jackson by @donnabrazile who is the personification of one of Jackson’s most important legacies: a generation of Black women leading in politics. She writes about the inclusive brand of politics that Jackson envisioned, that I wrote about in “A Dream Deferred.” It continues to be relevant and important today: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…
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Wesley@WesleyLowery·
Here’s the close of Jesse’s 1988 DNC speech “keep hope alive.” The challenge for politicians on the left remains unsparing critique that doesn’t descend into cynicism. There’s a reason that churched, black political figures navigate this more seamlessly than others
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the fruit of Jesse’s labor is apparent in so much of what comes after him: not just the rise of Obama, but also of Bernie and the current multi-racial progressive politics. He was the crucial bridge between 68 and our contemporary moment
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over decades, Jackson: insisted on a multiracial coalition, poured material resources into enfranchising southern voters, helped figure out what civil rights looks like in northern urban contexts, and helped define the lane for black leaders within national D politics
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there’s a barely-concealed condescension that frames (white) mainstream discussion of Jesse Jackson - he was “complex”, “personal failings”, “self promotion” “ego” - that, functionally, denies him his rightful mantle: possibly the most important political figure of his era
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