Between two worlds: A dialogue on the impact of racial profiling by police in the United States and France.
Join us for a virtual conversation with Project Director Angela Caputo, WBEZ Chicago’s Alden Loury and Matt Kiefer, and a team of Paris-based journalists about the global reach of traffic stop disparities. Moderated by NPR’s Cheryl Corley and journalist and anti-racism activist Rokhaya Diallo.
Friday, Dec. 15, 11:00 a.m. CST
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Hosted by the Investigative Project on Race and Equity, WBEZ and Le Next Level.
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ICYMI: Alden Loury, who serves on our advisory council, recently penned a Chicago Sun-Times column, “Racial profiling isn't just a traffic thing. For Black people, it's everywhere,” in which he reflected on his own experiences. “It’s degrading. It’s dehumanizing. And it’s exhausting,” he writes.
“For most of my lifetime, ‘driving while Black’ has been an ugly fact of life for African Americans in Chicago and throughout the nation,” Governing Board President Laura S. Washington wrote in a recent Chicago Tribune column on traffic stops. “It has happened to my father, and countless others I know, particularly Black men.”
In a look at the origin and goals of the Investigative Project, NiemanLab talks with our project director about our mission to train the next generation of investigative reporters.
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Investigative Project on Race and Equity Governing Board
Kevin B. Blackistone Blackistone is a longtime national sports columnist now at The Washington Post, a panelist on ESPN’s “Around the Horn,” a contributor to National Public Radio and coauthor of “A Gift for Ron,” a memoir by former NFL star Everson Walls. Blackistone is also a professor at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland.
Rui Kaneya Kaneya is a senior editor at ProPublica, where he helps oversee projects for the Local Reporting Network. He previously served as a senior reporter at the Center for Public Integrity. Before joining Public Integrity, he was an investigative reporter for Honolulu Civil Beat, a correspondent for the Columbia Journalism Review and investigations editor at The Chicago Reporter.
Laura S. Washington Washington is a Chicago Tribune contributing columnist and political analyst for ABC 7-Chicago. Washington brings decades of experience as a multimedia journalist and nonprofit professional. From 2003 to 2009 she served as the Ida B. Wells-Barnett University Professor at DePaul University and is a former editor and publisher of The Chicago Reporter. (Photo credit: Chicago Tribune)
Advisory Council
Susy Schultz, Chair
Kevin B. Blackistone, Vice Chair*
Tom Brune
Angela Caputo
Thom Clark
Kathleen Humphries
Rui Kaneya*
Alden K. Loury
John McDermott Jr.
Josh McGhee
Sharon McGowan
Jack Roberts
John Schrag
Christine Wachter
Laura S. Washington*
James Ylisela Jr. *Denotes Governing Board member
