Who was Maia Hightower Johnson? Keyshawn Johnson’s daughter passes away
Maia Hightower Johnson, daughter of Keyshawn Johnson, has tragically passed away aged 25.
Former NFL player Keyshawn Johnson shared the sad news with his fans on social media yesterday, March 16
th. Posting to his Instagram, he wrote:
“It is with incredible sadness that I have to share the news about the passing of my beautiful daughter Maia.”
“Maia, as my first born child, has been the joy of my, and her mother Shikiri’s, life. She came into our lives just as we were both coming of age as adults and has been a constant beloved presence for both of us.”
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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Following the Jan. 6 insurrection which was, by most accounts, the direct result of former president Donald Trump’s farewell speech and Twitter activity Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, YouTube, Reddit and other social media companies banned the former president from their platforms.
In response to the bans, Jameel Jaffer, executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, tweeted, “It’s coherent–and in my view absolutely appropriate–to believe both that (i) the social media companies were right to suspend Trump’s accounts last week; and (ii) the companies’ immense power over public discourse is a problem for democracy.” Jaffer added in another tweet, “The First Amendment question is easy. All the other questions are hard.”
I Get the Most Tacky, Hideous Magnets That You Can Possibly Find
Courtesy of Abbie VanSicklee.
February 24, 2021
Abbie VanSickle covers criminal justice in California for The Marshall Project and lectures at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Before joining a Zócalo/California Wellness Foundation event, “Has California Ended Mass Incarceration?,” she joined the virtual green room to chat about growing up in the corn fields of Illinois, quarantine cabin fever, and how she prepares for tough interviews.
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I actually did not have any breakfast. I was trying to get my kids out the door and just did not have a chance. I have a 1-year-old and a 5-year-old. Last week was my first week of full childcare since March 13th, I think. It was rough.