Wesley Lowery

“We fall into the fallacy of believing we can litigate the complicated story before us into a black-and-white binary of good guys…

— Wesley Lowery

“The theory is that legitimacy can only be earned through a long-suffering and constant presence. But that view is limiting in that…

— Wesley Lowery

“A shortsighted framing, divorced from historical context, led us to litigate and relitigate each specific detail of the shooting without fully grasping…

— Wesley Lowery

“Power is never given, it's taken." It is an open secret that there exists a conflict between a new generation of young…

— Wesley Lowery

“And by focusing on the character of the victim, we inadvertently take the focus off the powerful and instead train our eyes…

— Wesley Lowery

“Ferguson would birth a movement and set the nation on a course for a still-ongoing public hearing on race that stretched far…

— Wesley Lowery

“As President Obama's second term toiled on, it became increasingly clear that talk of a postracial America was no more than cheap…

— Wesley Lowery

“The role of the press in the civil rights movement also points to our larger failure as a nation to validate and…

— Wesley Lowery

“There is nothing that can prepare a family for the heart-clenching shock of losing one of their own. And time and time…

— Wesley Lowery

“The protests had created a countermovement of skepticism, anger and hate, driven by some who genuinely believed that the coverage of Ferguson…

— Wesley Lowery

“If it doesn't matter how the police -- the system -- treats you, does it matter how you treat them?”

— Wesley Lowery

“Justice is a hard concept to wrestle with when your eyes are filled with scenes of death.”

— Wesley Lowery

“Every social movement must grapple with the generational and tactical divides that arise between varying groups and factions that comprise the ground…

— Wesley Lowery

“In a post-Ferguson world, young black activists were eager to work outside the system. “I voted for Barack Obama twice,” Tef Poe…

— Wesley Lowery

“As was the case in Ferguson, the media became as much a motivating factor as the death itself. While cable news talking…

— Wesley Lowery