Journalist. Founder @ spiralbound.productions. Pulitzer Peabody 2024. Formerly @invinst.
Joined November 2012
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Astonishing: Bovino and his agents showed up at the Bean this morning to pose for pictures. While Border Patrol snapped photos, one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!’” The neighborhood where they are least welcome and most acutely felt. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11…
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“For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat.”
Can we at least share the value that people deserve to eat?
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28 Sep 2025
Our latest story about prominent Chicago activist turned politician Andrew Holmes, who is facing new scrutiny as lawsuit alleges sexual assault of teenage girl. Also details how some families felt exploited. With @FlowersAlison for @chicagotribune
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19 Feb 2025
The judge vacated Robert Johnson’s conviction!
His grandmother Mary Robinson said: “Thank you Lord. You did good. You did good.”
We are hopeful he will be released tomorrow after another hearing.
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14 Feb 2025
Part Two: There’s A Delicate Alchemy to Overturning A Wrongful Conviction.
Photo of Robert Johnson, his family and a blurb from his letter to me which I read ar the end of the Interview.
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12 Feb 2025
Why does it take so long to free an innocent person from prison? The case of Robert Johnson. wbez.org/curious-city/2025/0…
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15 Nov 2024
A Black trans Army veteran vanished in the Bahamas. Why won’t her country help find her? An important op-ed @chicagotribune
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A Black trans Army veteran vanished in the Bahamas. Why won’t her country help find her?
tinyurl.com/4e5ufdd6 @FBI @FBIChicago @DickDurbin @SenDuckworth @Brandon4Chicago @VisitTheBahamas @opmthebahamas @USEmbassyNassau @goop @SivanandaBahama
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15 Nov 2024
“We cannot allow the U.S. government to turn its back on one of its most vulnerable citizens. Time is running out. Casey’s loved ones deserve more than indifference to their cries for help. Casey deserves justice, and we must demand it.” @FBI @FBIChicago @USEmbassyNassau
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15 Nov 2024
“Despite these disproportionate rates of violence against trans people, Casey’s case has been met with inaction and silence by the American institutions meant to protect her.”
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15 Nov 2024
“From 2017 to 2021, killings of trans people nearly doubled in the U.S., with Black trans women most at risk, according to data from the nonprofit Everytown for Gun Safety. And across the world, 320 trans and gender-diverse people were killed in 2023…”
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15 Nov 2024
“The systemic violence Black trans women face, at home and overseas, is undeniable. Last month, a Texas man was accused of using a dating app to kidnap and assault trans women.”
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“Casey is not the first person to disappear from this ashram. Other American citizens have vanished, and at least 14 women have come forward with allegations of abuse — coercion, rape and misconduct — by senior teachers at various Sivananda locations…” @SivanandaBahama
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15 Nov 2024
“Casey’s face was absent from the missing posters wall in the police bureau when her family visited Nassau. Shockingly, the police chief overseeing Casey’s investigation was placed on leave after being accused of accepting bribes in a different case.”
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“Other attendants at the ashram reported not being questioned or, at the very least, being made aware that Casey had been reported missing. In fact, her disappearance was not even publicized locally.”
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15 Nov 2024
“Casey’s family believes that the Royal Bahamas Police Force failed to properly process her tent as a crime scene. According to her family and close friends, police did not collect evidence such as fingerprints or Casey’s personal belongings.” @USEmbassyNassau
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“Casey is an American citizen, but she has not been treated as one deserving of protection abroad. In the aftermath of Casey’s disappearance, Bahamian authorities launched a perfunctory investigation…” @USEmbassyNassau @FBI @FBIChicago
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“This indifference is especially egregious given the steady flow of U.S. tourism to the Bahamas — more than 5 million visitors annually — and the known threat of human trafficking on the island, with around 25 cases reported in recent years…”
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“The urgency, the priority and the dignity afforded to her case stand in stark contrast to Casey’s.
Despite pleas from Casey’s family, the U.S. government has taken no action to hold the Bahamian police accountable or to intervene in this investigation.” @FBI @FBIChicago
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