Black men born from 1951 through 1970 have the greatest risk of dying of overdoses — and always have.
That’s true in some other big cities, an investigation by the Sun-Times, @nytimes, @BaltimoreBanner, @BigLocalNews and other news organizations found: https://t.co/OfZIF2qXmc
I wrote this essay last week & then updated it repeatedly as events unfolded. It's a call not to let talk of geopolitics & HTS overshadow the human significance of Assad’s overthrow as a victory made by Syrians' own perseverance.
In @ConversationUS
https://t.co/88hzT011NT
In "We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled," Abdel-Halim describes rebels' evacuation from the Homs Old City in 2014 after years of brutal siege. I hope this is one of many things in my books that will be proven wrong. You will see #Homs again, Abdel-Halim. She is waiting for you.
The @Suntimes, @WBEZ and @chalkbeatCHI just published an extensive voter guide tool for Chicago's first-ever school board elections!
Search your address, learn candidates' credentials, see how much $$ they've raised and how they compare on top issues: https://t.co/RK0pFrTQjR
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s writing on race fueled a reckoning in America. Now he wants to change the way we think about Israel and Palestine.
Read our new cover story now: https://t.co/oMU9ZAXoBx
Leaked docs: While Gaza starved, USAID and State's refugees bureau came to a legally explosive conclusion — Israel had deliberately prevented food & medicine from getting in
But Blinken told congress the exact opposite, so the arms could keep flowing. https://t.co/htCXXLalxL
We announced some Sun news this morning! Proud to see my colleague and friend, @danacoffield, take over the Editor's chair. ... Dana Coffield becomes Editor of the Colorado Sun as news site marks sixth anniversary https://t.co/3CwqGo08C8 via @coloradosun
Student journalists at WKCR are having to correct professional media, including CNN, claiming the Columbia protesters aren't students.
What a black mark on our industry, forcing student reporters to fact-check our unsubstantiated claims while they watch police raid their campus
“You couldn’t take your eyes off Jayden. He was fully engaged in every class, every performance, from start to finish. He could take any movement and make it his own.”
His energy and joy for dance was infectious.
💔💔💔
https://t.co/22c4xgni4n
Awesome to see the @injusticewatch judicial election guide at my neighborhood coffee shop this morning! Public service journalism is so cool #CheckYourJudges
Two students made a parody newspaper skewering Northwestern University's stance on the war in Gaza. Now, they're facing criminal charges under a little-known law first proposed to fight the KKK.
My latest in @RStatecraft, co-published with @theintercept
https://t.co/HtNZ9PGPUS