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Wesley Lowery is a national reporter at the Washington Post, where he worked on the Pulitzer-winning project, "Fatal Force." His new book is They Can\u2019t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America\u2019s Racial Justice Movement.\n\n \u201cI think that we decided at some point that either you are a journalist or you are an activist. And I identify as a journalist, to be clear, but one of the reasons I often don\u2019t engage in that conversation\u2014when someone throws that back at me I kind of deflect a little bit\u2014is that I think there\u2019s some real fallacy in there. I think that every journalist should be an activist for transparency, for accountability\u2014certainly amongst our government, for first amendment rights. There are things that by our nature of what we do we should be extremely activist.\u201d\n\nThanks to MailChimp, Harry\u2019s, Casper, and School of the Arts Institute of Chicago for sponsoring this week's episode.\n@WesleyLowery\n[03:15] Detroit Free Press\n[03:15] The Plain Dealer\n[03:15] North Jersey\n[03:15] Diversity Inc.\n[03:15] Black Enterprise\n[05:00] They Can\u2019t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America\u2019s Racial Justice Movement (Little, Brown and Company \u2022 2016)\n[05:45] "Same-sex marriage is gaining momentum, but some advocates don\u2019t want it on the ballot in Ohio" (Washington Post \u2022 Jun 2014)\n[06:00] "Senate votes to restore federal funding for extended unemployment benefits" (Washington Post \u2022 Apr 2014)\n[06:15] "Congressional Democrats to introduce new Voting Rights Act fix" (Washington Post \u2022 Jun 2015)\n[07:30] "Police use tear gas on crowd in Ferguson, Mo., protesting teen\u2019s death" (Washington Post \u2022 Aug 2014)\n[10:45] "The story behind that Boston Marathon photo of runners carrying a competitor toward the finish" (Washington Post \u2022 Apr 2014)\n[10:45] "Aaron Hernandez indicted, accused of killing two men in 2012" (Washington Post \u2022 May 2014)\n[13:15] O.J.: Made in America\n[30:00] "Fatal Force" (Washington Post \u2022 2015)\n[31:30] "The DC Investigates: Is WaPo\u2019s Wesley Lowery Black?" (Betsy Rothstein \u2022 Daily Caller \u2022 Dec 2014)\n[40:15] "Police: Multiple witnesses say Antonio Martin pulled gun on officer" (Washington Post \u2022 Dec 2014)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices