Miles Parks
Miles Parks is a reporter on NPR's Washington Desk. He covers voting and elections, and also reports on breaking news.
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Miles Parks is a reporter on NPR's Washington Desk. He covers voting and elections, and also reports on breaking news.
This past June, an article by a Reuters journalist caught my attention. Tom Lasseter’s article was entitled “The Slaves Built That.” Lasseter, along with his Reuters colleagues, began exploring the
I made a poor excuse for a Presbyterian even as a kid. I resented religious indoctrination every precious school-free Sunday. Yet despite my apostatic nature, any number of biblical tenets with broad secular application have become touchstones. Of particular value during our post-Floydian festival of flagellation is Ezekiel 18: ‘The son shall not bear the
NPR's Miles Parks talks to Reuters editor Tom Lasseter about a project highlighting how many people in power in the U.S. today have ancestors who enslaved people.
A journalist who wrote an expose about politicians' ancestors who owned slaves had ancestors who owned slaves.