NEW: The Clay County prosecutor has charged 84-year-old Andrew Lester in the shooting of Ralph Yarl, a 16-year-old Black boy in Kansas City who went to the wrong address to pick up his siblings last week.
The prosecutor announced that Lester has been charged with first-degree assault and armed criminal action. A warrant has been issued for the man’s arrest; his bond has been set at $200,000.
Required reading from my friend @WesleyLowery about my friend @nhannahjones.
America should have ended the myth of its birth and life and taught its entire history a long time ago.
#NikoleHannahJones isn’t done challenging the story of America https://t.co/oHRmZvKr77
Wild story: A mystery buyer purchased The Hook, a Charlottesville newspaper, and scrubbed it from the internet. The buyer seemed particularly interested in erasing stories about one rape accusation from 19 years ago (the accused was my classmate at UVA...) https://t.co/1wGDA5XjFA
U.S. local newspapers are dying at a rate of 2 per week. By 2025, a third of them will be gone. If you’re not convinced that’s a doomsday-level threat to democracy, read this state-by-state list of what local reporters uncovered in 2022. It’s a sample of what we stand to lose.