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A case study to be taught in every journalism school and newsroom: Journalism is not stenography. We must verify everything — including “official” police accounts.https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1384622849562873856 Language matt

Michigan's Board of State Canvassers has certified the state's Nov. 3 election in a 3-0 vote, with 1 Republican abstaining. Voting advocates who worked hard to mobilize Black voters, especially

Black folks have been sounding the alarm for years about Michigan. Don't get it twisted that just because it is home to Detroit, a majority-Black city, that racism and bigotry

Michigan AG Dana Nessel has filed felony charges against two well-known out-of-state Republican operatives for allegedly orchestrating robocalls aimed at suppressing the vote in the Detroit area.https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politi

I think often of how reporters are told to work their way up in newsrooms by starting out on a night cops shift/covering police. Breaking news is seen as an

It’s not lost on me that this is happening right now in Detroit, the nation’s largest black city which has been devastated by COVID-19. More than 1,350 people have died

BLM co-founder @aliciagarza: “None of us can afford for the party or for this campaign to mess this election up & comments like these are the kinds that frankly either

This was hard to write:912.That's the number of Detroiters we've lost to COVID-19.So amid the pandemic, Detroit — the nation’s largest black city, the birthplace of distinctive soulful music and

What's so disturbing is this man went to the hospital twice & was sent home, even though he was clearly ill, according to his wife: "I said, “Well, what about

"To the untrained eye, Gretchen Esther Whitmer might seem like a pushover."It's 2020 and we still have to explain why this is problematic framing.https://twitter.com/politico/status/1248585723013447685 I mean the profile has good

NEW: Black Americans are being devastated by COVID-19. Of victims whose demographic data was publicly shared by officials - nearly 3,300 of the nation’s 13,000 deaths thus far — about

NEW: Michigan is now reporting the racial breakdown of COVID-19 cases. So far, 10,791 positive cases have been reported & 417 deaths. Of that, African Americans account for 35% of