The Madison Common Council formally established the Police Civilian Oversight Board last September. The 13-member board was years in the making, and intended to bring more oversight and accountability to the Madison Police Department.
Now, it’s the subject of a federal lawsuit against the City of Madison. My report for WORT News.
Read on wortfm.org. Picture of demonstration on May 30, 2020 after the killing of George Floyd.
Bayview is one of the oldest affordable housing communities in Madison. Recently, they unveiled a $50 million redevelopment plan to increase their housing capacity and build a new community center. I attended the groundbreaking ceremony for WORT News.
Top Michigan officials – including former governor Rick Snyder – were indicted on charges that ranged from willful neglect of duty and involuntary manslaughter to obstruction of justice after a new investigation into the Flint water crisis.
It’s a crisis that combined a city’s fiscal distress with politics and ignorance of environmental factors to create disaster: lead poisoning, and a deadly outbreak of Legionnaire’s disease.
I took a deep dive into the history and the details of the Flint water crisis with ProPublica journalist Anna Clark, author of the book The Poisoned City.
Black babies in Wisconsin die at a higher rate than any other state.
And nationally, Black mothers die in childbirth at a rate that’s three times greater than that of white mothers. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, most of those deaths are preventable.
Those racial inequities for women and children are why hundreds marched in downtown Madison on Saturday. Protestors marched from the Wisconsin State Capitol to Meriter Hospital and St Mary’s Hospital, where organizers described their own experiences, and demanded change.
The march, titled “We Been Not Breathin’,” was the eighth day of continuous Black Lives Matter protests in Madison in the wake of the killing of George Floyd.
Read on wortfm.org. This report received a gold award in the Milwaukee Press Club’s 2020 Excellence in Wisconsin Journalism Awards.
