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Aja Arnold

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A sign reading "Taken by injustice. Remembered for resistance." seen at the Alex Pretti Memorial on February 3, 2026.
Reporting on ICE killings follows a long history of normalizing state violence

Mainstream coverage of Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and Keith Porter’s killings shows how anti-Black news standards desensitize communities to state violence.

A map of the so-called United States filled in with blue and split around the Mason-Dixon line with a news clipping. The Southern states are rendered with a glitching computer-style effect.
The national media has ignored the South. Now the South’s problems are the nation’s

Oral histories from Southern journalists and authors about the news industry’s geographical bias.

Two members of the Palestinian press traverse and evaluate the rubble of several buildings left behind by Israeli airstrikes.
Why journalists must speak out about Gaza

Attacks on journalism and media are dangerous to us all.