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Journalist | Author | Correspondent New book out in June. You should be a pal and preorder it wesley@wesleyjlowery.com
Washington DCJoined May 2008
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Olivia Messer 🌙
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EXCLUSIVE: This was the very last interview Caroline Calloway gave before becoming a memoirist. A scammer? Perhaps. But she’s now fulfilled the largest, most infamous promise she’s ever broken: She finally wrote a book. And I'm the only one who's read it.
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She Got Famous Calling Herself a Scammer. Is She Finally Making Good?
A look inside influencer Caroline Calloway's new book 'Scammer' and exclusive interview about how it finally came about.
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7/ Dr. Fakorede says there have to be fundamental shifts in American healthcare. Medicare and Medicaid need to pay for screenings that would catch vascular issues early enough that limbs can be saved.
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6/ Dr. Fakorede opened a clinic where he provides medical interventions – opening arteries, restoring blood flow and hopefully preventing amputations before it’s too late.
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5/ “We have a system, again, that is designed to get the results it gets,” Dr. Fakorede said. “We spend a lot of money on amputations, but less money on preventative strategies to prevent those amputations like diabetes.”
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4/ Dr. Fakorede says he sees far too many Black patients suffering from high rates of high blood pressure, clogged arteries, and diabetes. As a result, wounds on the feet and legs don’t heal, which lead to infection and, possibly, amputations. Denise Harvey told us her story.
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3/ Studies show that up to 80% of people who undergo a major amputation will die within 5 years. In Mississippi, we spoke with Dr. Foluso Fakorede, an Interventional Cardiologist fighting to prevent amputations and educate the community.
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1/This month on #AmericaInBlackBET, we collaborated w/
@ProPublica
to shed light on the Black Amputation Epidemic -- Black Americans are 2-3x more likely to get major amputations than white Americans -- and highlight a doctor saving limbs and lives
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The Black American Amputation Epidemic
Black patients were losing limbs at triple the rate of others. The doctor put up billboards in the Mississippi Delta. Amputation Prevention Institute, they read. He could save their limbs, if it...
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chris licht: the latest in a line of media leaders who burned their own house down with their determination to be antiwoke and prove their “independence” from liberals who criticize them on twitter
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Keri Blakinger
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Publishing their writing and journalism has long been one of the few ways people in prisons can build a career or get a second chance even before they get out - and New York just killed their ability to do that. 💔
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New York's prison agency has all but banned journalism and art behind bars. Scoop from @chrisgelardi nysfocus.com/2023/06/06/doc
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"With nothing else better to do than count the cracks in my wall, I drew this picture to represent the struggles and needs of North Carolina prisoners. I truly believe that those closest to the problems are the ones who are closest to the solutions. "
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"I was interviewed by NPR, & I was subsequently placed in long-term solitary confinement for several years as a result of the interview & my inside organizing." prisonjournalismproject.org/2023/05/31/pri
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Bailey Ann Estes
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A must-see about the growing epidemic of amputations in Black Americans. We are not doing enough to identify, educate, and intervene. Watch tomorrow at 10 pm on
@BET
Thank you,
@padadvocate
, for being a tireless advocate!
@AmputeesUSA
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A heartbreaking story, with disturbing images, airing 10pm this Sunday on @BET: Black Americans are 3x as likely to receive major amputations. But they are not just losing their limbs -- if the underlying circulation issues are not addressed, many of them are losing their lives
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A heartbreaking story, with disturbing images, airing 10pm this Sunday on
@BET
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Sloane Airey
@SloaneAirey
There's been lots of ink spilled on the D.C. crime lab, but
@AlexKomaWCP
and I dug into something that's been forgotten: a multi-year, multi-million-dollar promise to retest crime evidence. Thanks to
@Spotlight4DC
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@WCP
for publishing & support!
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Promised Crime Lab Evidence Retesting Has Yet to Begin - WCP
Mayor Muriel Bowser promised a thorough review of evidence handled by D.C.'s troubled crime lab. Years later, it still hasn't materialized.
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Coates' address at PEN America -- about speech, censorship, campus controversies, etc -- should be seen and discussed widely and his conversation with David Blight (who drops the news that he's working on a James Weldon Johnson biography!) is delightful
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2023 PEN World Voices Festival: ARTHUR MILLER LECTURE: TA-NEHISI...
PEN America’s annual Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture will be delivered by MacArthur Fellow Ta-Nehisi Coates. In the wake of George Floyd’s murder, the...
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Eric Deggans at NPR
@Deggans
What I hate about Anderson Cooper's defense of CNN's lame town hall w/Donald Trump is he presents a false choice: ignore Trump or platform him w/no effective pushback. Why not challenge him effectively (and admit you failed this time)?
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CNN’s Anderson Cooper Defends Trump Town Hall – Adds, ‘You Have Every Right… To Never Watch This...
Anderson Cooper defended CNN's decision to host Wednesday night's town hall with former President Donald Trump.
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what if -- hear me out, I know this will sound crazy -- we received our vital news and information in a way divorced from capitalistic pressures like "ratings" and "viewers" and "traffic" and then we could focus on things like "facts" and "journalism" and "informing people"?
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Just in: CNN's town hall with Donald Trump averaged 3.1 million total viewers. The event outrated Fox and MSNBC, as expected, but these are not 2015/16 level numbers for Trump — not even close.
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this is lunacy. Trump was not "pinned down" on anything. He was not "held accountable" in any meaningful way. We learned nothing about what a second term would be like -- cause he'll change his mind 900 times between now and then. Literally no one has argued Trump be "ignored"
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