🚨 We are now accepting applications for the 2026 Lipman Center Fellowship in Civil and Human Rights Reporting. ⏰ The deadline is January 9, 2026. ⏰ See application details and past fellowship work here: journalism.columbia.edu/ira-lipman-f...

U.S. WWII cemetery in the Netherlands removes displays about Black troops www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

📚 On shelves: Dean Jelani Cobb's latest book, "Three or More Is a Riot: Notes on How We Got Here: 2012-2025." This "kaleidoscopic, real-time portrait of the turbulent past decade" is available now: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/779593... @jelaniya.bsky.social | @oneworldbooks.bsky.social

It’s Not a Dog Whistle If Everyone Can Hear It www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The Right to Vote Is on Trial at the Supreme Court time.com/7326335/righ...

Immigration Agents Have Held More Than 170 Americans Against Their Will, ProPublica Finds www.propublica.org/article/immi...

(Self) Censorship of student journalism in the age of Trump Wednesday, Oct 8 12-1 p.m.

Crooked Cops, Enterprising Sheriffs and Uncaring DAs A conversation with Lipman Center criminal justice grantees about investigating official misconduct. Tuesday, September 30 12:15 - 1:45pm

An H-2A Visa Promised Her a Better Life. She Ended Up in a Nightmare. projects.propublica.org/h2a-visa-far...

🎓📰 Introducing CollegeWatch CJS faculty and alumni have launched CollegeWatch, a weekly newsletter reporting on the challenges facing U.S. higher education. Each issue delivers in-depth reporting and analysis on a fast-moving story: journalism.columbia.edu/news/college...

🗽 Yesterday, Columbia Journalism School and @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social hosted “Zohran Mamdani With Errol Louis: A Conversation on Public Safety,” the first in a series of forums with 2025 New York City mayoral candidates.

Killing the journalist will not kill the story. We stand in solidarity with journalists in Gaza risking their lives to tell the truth: www.reuters.com/world/middle...

New Trump rule to ban VA abortions for veterans even in cases of rape and incest www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

📰 Urgent Ideas for Defending Press Freedom in Gaza In a new project between @columjournreview.bsky.social and the Simon and June Li Center for Global Journalism, CJS faculty and graduates explore urgent strategies for protecting journalists in Gaza: www.cjr.org/feature/urge...

Who Are the Venezuelan Immigrants Trump Sent to CECOT? projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i...

Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration say they endured months of physical and mental abuse inside a Salvadoran prison. Though happy to be home, they say the fact that they were released is proof of how senseless their detentions were. www.propublica.org/article/vene...

As democratic norms face mounting threats, how should journalism hold the line? Dean Jelani Cobb joins the NAHJ 2025 Conference and Expo to explore the press’s role amid disinformation and eroding trust. 👉 Register for the panel: bit.ly/4lEv2dV

🎬 Now Playing in NYC: Heightened Scrutiny. This powerful new documentary features Dean Jelani Cobb, Lydia Polgreen ’00 M.S., and Gina Chua ’88 M.S., and offers sharp insight into how media coverage shapes public perception of trans rights.

"The biggest mistake that some universities have made is to presume that the White House is operating in good faith. It is not," writes @columbiajourn Dean Jelani Cobb. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

“Should you paint over all the monuments and the memorials that were created for George Floyd, the history still exists ... We will continue to tell the story as long as it needs to be told.” -Dean Jelani Cobb on episode 416 of Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso talkeasypod.com/jelani-cobb-...

The Unbearable Darkness of Jail Jails in St. Louis, Cleveland and Jackson, Mississippi, don’t provide direct access to sunlight and fresh air – even when their own policies require it www.themarshallproject.org/2025/05/21/s...

How abortion laws focusing on fetal viability miss the mark on women’s experiences theconversation.com/how-abortion...

Help Us Report on Sexual Assault and Misconduct by the Chicago Police Department www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...

A Louisiana plantation-turned-resort burns, prompting a reckoning www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The first investigation in our partnership with @propublica found that Chicago Police fail to investigate officers repeatedly accused of sexual assault. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

Dean @columbiajournalism.bsky.social and founding director of the Lipman Center, @jelaniya.bsky.social, has won the 2025 Humanist of the Year Award. americanhumanist.org/press-releas...

Black women experienced the steepest job loss of any demographic group in April, shedding 106,000 jobs, according to newly released data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics www.washingtoninformer.com/black-women-...

US justice department asks civil rights division attorneys to stay after mass exits www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Supreme Court Unanimously Rules to Reopen Texas Civil Rights Lawsuit www.newsweek.com/supreme-cour...

The Department of Education Forced Idaho to Stop Denying Disabled Students an Education. Then Trump Gutted Its Staff. www.propublica.org/article/depa...

Judge overturns Michigan’s 24-hour waiting period before an abortion www.cnn.com/2025/05/13/u...

Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, citing moral opposition www.npr.org/2025/05/12/g...

Amid anti-DEI push, National Park Service rewrites history of Underground Railroad www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Texas lawmakers propose abortion pill bill that can’t be challenged in state courts www.texastribune.org/2025/05/12/t...

A Timeline of Tensions Between India and Pakistan Over Kashmir www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/w...

Burkina Faso military accused of killing over 100 civilians in 'massacre' www.bbc.com/news/article...

Trump Seeks to Strip Away Legal Tool Key to Civil Rights Enforcement www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...

UVA Tried To Shut Down Its Historical Tours Discussing Slavery. These Students Resisted. www.teenvogue.com/story/uva-hi...

🔔 2025 Lipman Criminal Justice Grant Recipients Announced 🔔

The AP's Lethal Restraint project, a recipient of our 2022 criminal justice grant, was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting. Lethal Restraint has investigated and documented police use of force. View the project here: apnews.com/projects/inv...

Learn more: journalism.columbia.edu/news/lipman-...

📰 Congratulations to this year’s grantees of the The Ira A. Lipman Center For Journalism and Civil and Human Rights's Initiative in Reporting on Race and Criminal Justice: @capitalandmain.bsky.social, Arizona Luminaria, @indyscholtens.bsky.social, Oishika Neogi and @muckrock.com.

‘Blood timber’: western firms fuel conflict and ‘slavery’ in Colombia www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

The Fight to Be Believed: Long COVID’s Toll on Black Americans Black people made up about 32% of long COVID cases, one study found, but are “not being taken as seriously,” said one patient capitalbnews.org/black-americ...

Trump Administration Asks Court to Dismiss Abortion Pill Case www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/h...

Trump Just Issued an Executive Order Aimed at Decimating the Civil Rights Act of 1964 slate.com/news-and-pol...

The Great Resegregation www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Ryan Coogler and I passed in a hallway at NBC the week Fruitvale Station came out. Twelve years later I had the good fortune to write this profile of him and delve into his perspectives on music, religion, history and where Sinners came from: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

“We believe that any incursion into people’s ability to report is ultimately a slippery slope into any of our ability to report,” said Dean Jelani Cobb. “We take that very seriously.” www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/04...

Columbia journalism dean addresses response to Trump and challenges to press freedom www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...