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    Adeshina Emmanuel

    Adeshina Emmanuel

    Adeshina was Injustice Watch's editor-in-chief from 2020 to 2022. He was born and raised in the Uptown neighborhood on Chicago’s North Side by an African-American mother and Nigerian father and studied journalism at Loyola University Chicago. His work over the past decade has spanned hyperlocal and national reporting with a focus on race, class, and institutional injustice.

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    State Rep. Justin Slaughter, center, holds up his fist while wearing a black glove after the SAFE-T Act passed the Illinois House.
    SAFE-T Act

    Illinois criminal justice reformers won a historic legislative victory in 2021. But the law they passed isn’t a done deal.

    By Emanuella Evans, Adeshina Emmanuel and Jonah Newman | November 3, 2021

    The same forces that fought against the SAFE-T Act when it was introduced in January are still looking for ways to change the historic criminal justice reform law.

    Police and Prosecutors

    Analysis: Here’s how Chicago’s most powerful police union preserves tradition of problematic leadership

    By Emanuella Evans and Adeshina Emmanuel | September 13, 2021

    We interviewed past and present police union presidents, activists, and legal scholars for perspectives about the role FOP leaders have played since the organization established itself in Chicago nearly 60 years ago.

    News
    The sillouhettes of judges huddled in a rrom with their backs turned.

    Illinois courts name 22 new associate judges in Cook County

    By Aviva Waldman and Adeshina Emmanuel | September 9, 2021

    Associate judges are chosen via a closed election that only Cook County’s 249 circuit court judges can vote in.

    Protesters sit and kneel in silence for nearly nine minutes in Chicago on Saturday, July 4, 2020, during the
    Longreads

    Spurred by Black Lives Matter, coverage of police violence is changing

    By Adeshina Emmanuel | February 1, 2021

    Newsrooms are moving away from privileging police accounts over those of police violence victims.

    Judicial Elections
    Michael Toomin and Lori Lightfoot

    Chicago mayor’s support of Judge Michael Toomin leaves juvenile justice advocates ‘disappointed’

    By John Seasly and Adeshina Emmanuel | October 20, 2020

    Judge Michael Toomin and Mayor Lori Lightfoot say his critics are playing politics. Reformers say the lives and futures of Cook County children are at stake.

    news analysis

    Check Your Judges: Why Cook County judicial elections matter

    By Adeshina Emmanuel and Carlos Ballesteros | October 15, 2020

    Judicial elections bring high stakes and consequences, especially for Black, Latinx and other marginalized groups disproportionately impacted by the justice system.

    Essential Work

    Listen: Youth organizers discuss Black joy, West Side history and the future

    By Erisa Apantaku (South Side Weekly) and Adeshina Emmanuel | October 1, 2020

    “We are the revolution. It is in our bodies. It is in our bones. It is in our art. It is in the way that we speak.”

    Police at a protest on State Street in downtown Chicago, May 30, 2020.
    News

    The Chicago police union is trying to put its members on the state’s torture inquiry commission

    By Adeshina Emmanuel and Olivia Louthen | August 6, 2020

    Two bills introduced by Republicans in the state legislature are “a smack in the face,” says one torture survivor.

    Essential Work

    Listen: Chicago youth leaders Miracle Boyd and China Smith reflect on activism, trauma, and growth

    By Erisa Apantaku (South Side Weekly) and Adeshina Emmanuel | July 20, 2020

    Two youth organizers with GoodKids MadCity share what activism has taught them, how it has affected them, and how they want to transform Chicago.

    News

    ‘How was she a threat?’ Chicago police attack on Black youth leader Miracle Boyd outrages activists, officials

    By Adeshina Emmanuel | July 18, 2020

    Miracle Boyd, 18, is an organizer with GoodKids MadCity and a rising Chicago youth leader. An unidentified police officer struck her in the mouth Friday at a Black, Indigenous American rally, breaking several of her teeth.

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