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    Adeshina Emmanuel

    Adeshina Emmanuel

    Adeshina Emmanuel is the editor-in-chief at Injustice Watch. 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. Adeshina is a former education reporter at Chalkbeat, a former investigative reporter at the Chicago Reporter, and a former neighborhood reporter at DNAinfo Chicago who worked on the breaking news wire at the Chicago Sun-Times before interning at the New York Times in 2012 at the start of his career. Adeshina's work has also been published by various local and national outlets, including the New York Times, the Chicago Reader, Ebony Magazine, In These Times, the Columbia Journalism Review, Nieman Reports, the Washington Post, Parts Unknown, and the South Side Weekly.

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    Protesters sit and kneel in silence for nearly nine minutes in Chicago on Saturday, July 4, 2020, during the "Boycott 4th of July" rally against police brutality.
    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.

    Michael Toomin and Lori Lightfoot
    Judicial Elections

    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.”

    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.

    News

    Students and alums reveal racist culture at top Chicago private school

    By Adeshina Emmanuel | June 30, 2020

    Hundreds of stories of racism, xenophobia, and abuse at the Latin School of Chicago have surfaced via an anonymous Instagram account, Latin Survivors.

    Commentary
    Dash cam video

    Analysis: The thing about police unions

    By Adeshina Emmanuel | June 19, 2020

    Most unions don’t aggressively shield their members from accountability for murder. Police unions are another story.

    Alabama Prison Crisis

    Alabama prison death highlights pattern of officials promoting bad bosses

    By Adeshina Emmanuel and Connor Echols | May 31, 2020

    Billy Smith’s 2017 death highlighted broader problems at Elmore Correctional Facility, an overcrowded and understaffed prison with a history of abusive, neglectful managers.

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