Past-and-present stories
Simeon Booker
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Alert: The following stories include descriptions of racial and sexual violence.
Simeon Booker, “To Be a ‘Negro’ Newsman Reporting on the Emmett Till Murder Trial,” Nieman Reports, 1956
Lynell Hancock, "Wolf Pack: The Press and the Central Park Jogger," Columbia Journalism Review, 2003
Pro Publica, “In a Notoriously Polluted Area of the Country, Massive New Chemical Plants Are Still Moving In,” 2019
Optional viewing: Alexandra Eaton, Christoph Koettl, Quincy G. Ledbetter, Victoria Simpson, Aaron Byrd, “Searching for the Lost Graves of Louisiana’s Enslaved People,” The New York Times, 2021
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