Diversity “pipelines” aren’t the answer. Newsrooms must implement radical change in how they understand what they do and who their stakeholders are. If they won’t change, build new newsrooms! https://t.co/iqdDyMIovZ
#America today faces a difficult test on how to overcome our culture of #violence. As we question what nation we are and what direction we want to go, we can look to a former death row inmate wrongfully convicted of murder for some guidance. https://t.co/644eLPxDiT
Former death row inmate Gary Tyler carries on RFK's "Ripple of Hope" ideal. After being wrongfully convicted of murder and spending 41 years at Angola prison in Louisiana, Tyler has become a community leader in the struggle for #justice. https://t.co/644eLPxDiT
Some people don’t want the @UnitethePoor story to be told, but the voiceless will not stay silent. After being arrested while live streaming a nonviolent protest in Missouri, @nigrotime is back to committing "acts of journalism.” @RevDrBarber@liztheo https://t.co/uC2PSSmirT
Death row inmate Christopher Young has an execution date of July 17 at the Polunsky Unit in Texas. Chris shares his story of transformation and asks for clemency from death in this Community Based News Room story. #SaveChrisYoung#CBNR@lawatmargins https://t.co/x9ceIXwdRh
"The alarming data also confirms the view that less-than-affluent communities, where local economies and civic health may already be stumbling, are likelier to have become news deserts." https://t.co/SJ03UpbLaO
News deserts are spreading across America. According to @tomstites on @Poynter, new data shows that coverage of at least 900 communities across the U.S. has gone dry since 2004. https://t.co/A4GoLwZdO3
Most incarcerated people are good people who made poor choices. But the consensus among staff at jails/prisons is that inmates are garbage, and that is how they are treated. What if the U.S. penal system was more humane? #CBNR@lawatmargins@MarshallProj https://t.co/u8bvtamQhG
Truthdig is live-blogging from the scene at the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. Sunday night's kickoff included a speeches from the Revs. @liztheo and @RevDrBarber. Photos by @Nigrotime@UniteThePoor
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We're asking for your help to fund our coverage of the campaign, which will bring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s powerful vision into the current moment #PoorPeoplesCampaign@Nigrotime https://t.co/UQFaDJygRk
Help @Truthdig cover six weeks of @UniteThePoor activism with our first fully reader-funded project. Photojournalist @Nigrotime and other reporters will document the #PoorPeoplesCampaign around the U.S. Give now, and be a part of history. https://t.co/oaVSr7uY4k
On Monday, thousands of activists will gather at the U.S. Capitol and more than 30 cities across the nation to kick off the revival of #ThePoorPeoplesCampaign:
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An incarcerated woman discovered her purpose in life while serving a 20-year sentence at Lowell Correctional Institute in Florida. Now with 10 more years to go until her release, she teaches yoga to other inmates, helping them heal. #CBNR@lawatmargins
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"...newsrooms need to do more to rebuild trust and listen to their communities." Great piece of writing by @jcstearns on why journalists can't fulfill their role alone.
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