"Our Voices, Our Vote" with Wesley Lowery

Words Matter

Riley Fessler

News, Government

4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Katie and Jen sit down with award-winning journalist and author, Wesley Lowery. Wesley has reported for the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, CBS News and in 2016 won a Pulitzer Prize as a lead on the Washington Post’s “Fatal Force” Project. He is the author of They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement Wesley's latest project with Tiffany Cross - More than a Vote: Our Voices, Our Vote is available on Audible. More than a Vote is an organization of Black athletes and artists lead by LeBron James, working to combat systemic, racist voter suppression by educating, energizing, and protecting the Black community in 2020. Read their letter asking fans to join in the fight against Black voter suppression. Follow Wesley Lowery on Twitter: @WesleyLowery Download More than a Vote: Our Voices, Our Vote with Tiffany Cross: https://www.audible.com/pd/More-Than-a-Vote-Audiobook/B08LF4GYYV Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/words-matter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Words Matter with Katie Barlow and Joe Lockhart.
0:12.1	Welcome to Words Matter, I'm Katie Barlow.
0:15.8	Our goal is to promote objective reality.
0:18.8	As a wise man once said, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, not their own facts.
0:25.2	Have power and words have consequences.
0:33.4	Our guest today is an award-winning journalist and author.
0:37.8	Wesley Lowry has reported for The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, CBS News, and in 2016,
0:45.8	won a Pulitzer Prize as a lead on the Washington Post's Fatal Force project.
0:51.9	He's the author of They Can't Kill Us All, Ferguson, Baltimore, and a new era in America's
0:57.5	racial justice movement.
0:59.8	Wesley Lowry, welcome to Words Matter.
1:02.4	Thanks so much for having me.
1:04.1	So we want to talk about your latest project with LeBron James and Tiffany Cross, more than
1:09.3	a vote, our voices, our vote in just a minute.
1:12.6	And we'll put the audible link in our show notes for this episode so our listeners can
1:17.0	also follow.
1:18.3	But we want to start with something that you wrote back in June for The Atlantic.
1:23.9	Why Minneapolis was the breaking point?
1:26.5	You've covered racial justice issues and the movement for Black Lives for much of the
1:31.9	past decade.
1:33.3	You've spent literally hundreds of nights covering protests of fatal police actions.
1:38.4	So what changed with the murder of George Floyd and the public reaction to that horrific
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