Journalist | Author | Correspondent wesley@wesleyjlowery.com
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Apr 12
A year ago today, LSU’s star wideout Kyren Lacy took his own life, 2 weeks before the NFL draft. I’ve spent a few months with his friends and family, and reexamining the police records, to try to sort out the legal case he found himself ensnared in menshealth.com/trending-news…
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Jun 12
Just learned from my publisher that my book, Forgotten Souls: The Search for the Lost Tuskegee Airmen, has been named one of Amazon’s “Best History Books of 2026 So Far.”
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Jun 11
"Johnson, who was Black, sued the global news organization for race and gender discrimination the year after she joined. “What the suit was about originally was racism,” Johnson said in a 2013 interview...
The Newspaper Guild’s sex and race discrimination class-action lawsuit against the AP was settled about decade later in 1983 for more than $1 million. Johnson was not listed as one of the plaintiffs.
“The suit turned from all Black and one white (plaintiff), to all white and one Black (plaintiff),” Johnson recalled “And the one Black — the one that went to the civil suit — they took my name off and put another woman’s name on it. A Black woman who I had never heard of before.” apnews.com/article/marlene-j…
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Jun 10
Sonny Rollins's father was arrested 80 years ago this past February on charges of committing adultery, violating a taboo of interracial romance with a white woman. He was posthumously exonerated before his son passed.
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Jun 10
"Akash had been ensnared by a business venture that traffics in public humiliation as entertainment. That he was innocent of what he was accused of only served to draw a bigger crowd." nytimes.com/2026/06/10/techn…
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Jun 9
As many are noting, Gordon Wood (RIP) was one of the historians who criticized the 1619 Project. Worth noting that, a few years later in 2023 he told me that while he still had quibbles, he believed the project had been an important one washingtonpost.com/lifestyle…
Via Gemini: "Gordon Wood was a vocal critic of the New York Times’ 1619 Project. He ... argued that the project distorted historical facts ... by falsely claiming the Revolution was fought to defend slavery—and ... frequently wrote letters and articles detailing ... critiques."
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If you've lost parent(s) or grandparent(s), feeling their presence is spiritual. Like @KarlTowns this postseason.
“Ain’t no shame in holding on to grief — as long as you make room for other things, too.”
That's KAT’s story. Hopefully, mine too. andscape.com/features/karl-a…
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Jun 8
FL police use A.I. to identify a vehicle theft suspect from surveillance video. Based on an "85% match" they arrest and charge Jalil Richardson. He spends 3 months in jail. He loses his job, his home, and custody of his kids.
Richardson lives in N.C.
He's never been to Florida. And his timesheet shows him at work at the time of the crime. No one checked before charging him. yahoo.com/news/us/articles/a…
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Jun 8
Looks like the deputy used A.I. to land on Richardson's photo, resulting in his photo being placed into a photographic lineup and then "identified" by eyewitnesses as the suspect. actionnewsjax.com/news/local…
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Jun 7
New: The Washington Post reconstructed journalist Amal Khalil’s final hours in Lebanon found that Israel’s military denied rescuers access to her during a key period when she was still alive.
w/ @suzanHaidamous, @mmkelly22, and @MohamdEch
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Daniel Smith, Believed to Be the Last Child of Enslaved People, Dies at 90 eji.org/news/daniel-smith-be…
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Since a pandemic spike, homicides of all kinds have plummeted — except for domestic violence deaths.
Family and intimate-partner killings are now 1 in 5 of all homicides, a @washingtonpost investigation found
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Jun 5
"The effort to destroy Black political power in the South is among the greatest betrayals of Black Americans....It will have far-reaching consequences for all Americans, and for our democracy." @MaraGay on the evisceration of the Voting Rights Act. nytimes.com/2026/06/05/opini…
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After Uvalde, Texas undertook an ambitious effort to station a police officer at every school.
Since then, students have been tackled, pepper sprayed and Tasered. Many episodes began over minor infractions like breaking dress code or vaping.
Our report: nytimes.com/interactive/2026…
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Monica and Shawn Williams say their white neighbor harassed them & burned a cross to intimidate them.
He's been indicted on two federal charges.
Still, South Carolina does not have a hate crime law, and the Williamses are pushing to make it a reality.
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May 19
One journalism prodigy reviews another: @alexbronzini on @tab_delete’s Stanford exposé, How to Rule the World, for @monthly
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May 27
this weekend, another major civil rights death. Clarence Jones kept MLK out of prison. He helped write “Beyond Vietnam” and, as Andy Young said on @rolandsmartin’s show, provided the “bad check marked insufficient funds” metaphor in I Have A Dream speech nytimes.com/2026/05/25/us/cl…
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May 26
blow the whole thing up. tell the lakers they can have whoever they want for Lebron in a sign and trade. make bronny the coach
May 26
Going to be a really weird Cavs offseason. Mitchell’s eligible for an extension nobody is going to feel 100% great about and you have to trade him if he doesn’t sign it. Gotta either re-sign Harden or lose him for nothing. Mobley and Allen will both be in trade rumors. Probably a coaching change. And oh yeah, LeBron.
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May 25
“Sports media – responding both to white audiences who want their entertainment uncomplicated and their own biases to ignore the Black perspective – has engaged in a simplistic but effective con.” theguardian.com/sport/2026/m…
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