Ida B. Wells Fellows
, our Southern Fellow, is a North Carolina-based movement journalist with more than 10 years of experience reporting on immigration, reproductive injustice, LGBTQ+ issues, and gender-based violence. She is currently a staff reporter leading Prism s coverage of gender justice. Previously, she was a senior reporter covering immigration at Rewire.News, the leading online publication devoted to evidence-based reporting on reproductive and sexual health, rights, and justice. Her work has appeared in the New York Review of Books, NPR, The Nation, Playboy, and a variety of other publications. Recently, she was a mentor in the Freedomways Fellowship Program as part of Press On, a Southern journalism collective that strengthens and expands the practice of journalism in service of liberation. She will be reporting on immigrant workers and COVID-19.
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Environmental Justice Plays a Key Role in Biden’s Covid-19 Stimulus Package
The rescue plan includes an “unprecedented” $100 million in funding for action on air pollution and environmental health risks in marginalized communities.
March 14, 2021
An oil refinery, owned by Exxon Mobil, is seen in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. Tens of thousands of people live within 2 miles of the complex, which produces gasoline for much of the East Coast. Credit: Barry Lewis/InPictures via Getty Images
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President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion Covid relief package includes a downpayment on his ambitious climate plan, including $100 million to address harmful air quality and environmental health risks in minority and low-income communities.
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Palestinian-American journalist Andrea Sahouri was found not guilty on Wednesday after being arrested last summer while reporting on Black Lives Matter protests.
Sahouri, of the
Des Moines Register in Iowa, was acquitted on misdemeanour charges in a case that attracted national attention.
She was being prosecuted for not moving away while covering the George Floyd protests on May 31 in the Des Moines city centre.
“I put up my hands and said, I m press, I m press , and he grabbed me and pepper-sprayed me and told me, That s not what I asked ,” Sahouri said, telling the court that these were the last words she spoke before her arrest.