Ira A. Lipman Center For Journalism and Civil and Human Rights

05/12/2023

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Issue 68📷Ira A. Lipman Center For Journalism and Civil and Human Rights weekly newsletter offering, "The Lipman Letter," is now available via

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05/02/2023

What is Happening in Sudan? The Fighting Explained.
The Wall Street Journal

A power struggle between Sudan’s top two generals has left hundreds dead and trapped millions.

05/02/2023

An investigation into two hospitals in Missouri has been launched by the U.S. gov, after the refusal to provide an emergency abortion to a pregnant woman despite having life-threatening health issues.

A first-of-its-kind federal investigation has found two hospitals put a pregnant woman's life in jeopardy and violated federal law by refusing to provide an emergency abortion when she experienced premature labor at 17 weeks. The findings are revealed in documents obtained by The Associated Press. T...

05/01/2023

Three years after Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration created a Violence Prevention Planning Committee meant to hold the city accountable for reducing violence, records show that they have only met twice in two years.

Read The Trace✍️

Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration promised community involvement, but the committee meant to hold it accountable stopped convening.

05/01/2023

A man killed five people, including an 8-year-old boy, with an AR-15-style weapon. A manhunt is currently underway for the suspect, identified by the San Jacinto County Sheriff's Office as 38-year-old Francisco Oropeza.

Read Washington Post✍️

The gunman had been shooting his rifle in his Cleveland, Tex., front yard and allegedly became angry when his neighbors asked him to stop, the sheriff said.

04/25/2023

Happening NOW:

DAY 1
America 2030, moderated by Adam Serwer, staff writer for
The Atlantic, featuring panelists Annette Gordon-Reed, historian, Robert Kagan senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, Kathy Roberts Ford, historian and Jeff Chang, journalist

04/20/2023

The family of Tyre Nichols, who died after a brutal beating by five Memphis police officers, filed a lawsuit for $550 million against the officers and the city. The landmark case is backed up by a trend of high-profile police misconduct cases happening nationwide in recent years.

Read more Washington Post✍️

The lawsuit compares the beating of Tyre Nichols to the 1955 killing of Emmett Till and describes the officers involved as a “modern-day lynch mob.”

04/19/2023

On this day, the year was 1989, when five teenagers were arrested in connection with the r**e and assault of a white female jogger in Central Park.

13 years later NYC Supreme Court found them innocent after a man confessed to the crimes.

Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

04/14/2023

Hello folks and happy Friday☀️

Issue 64✍️of Ira A. Lipman Center For Journalism and Civil and Human Rights weekly newsletter offering, "The Lipman Letter," is now available via Substack:

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04/12/2023

The Ira A. Lipman Center For Journalism and Civil and Human Rights is proud to announce its 2023 fellowship winners, journalists who will pursue reporting on issues of inequity and human or civil rights abuses:

Caroline Tracey, climate justice fellow at High Country News, William Melhado, a reporter for the Texas Tribune, and Katie Rose Quandt, an independent journalist for The Atlantic.

Read more here:

The Ira A. Lipman Center for Journalism and Civil and Human Rights is proud to announce its 2023 fellowship winners, journalists who will pursue reporting on issues of inequity and human or civil rights abuses.

04/11/2023

"I want to welcome the people back to the people's house," said Justin Jones, the first Tennessee House Rep. to be expelled from the House Chamber last week for leading a chant on gun reform, following the Nashville shooting.

Read more Tennessean✍️

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04/11/2023

ICYMI: Mark your calendars🗓️ for April 25 & 26 this upcoming conference hosted by Columbia Journalism Review Columbia Journalism School in a two-day conversation about the role of a free press in a thriving democracy and its responsibility when democracy is under assault.

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A conference on building a democratic press