Posts by Shalailah Medhora:
Still waiting for change
Nearly a century and a half since the first black legislators were elected in Texas, tangible inequality still exists in the United States. The Texas History Museum is nearly as big as the state itself. It houses stuffed cattle, interactive maps and historians dressed...
The privilege of protest
If you’ve visited the White House in the last few weeks, it’s likely you’ve bumped into one of the Capital’s more colourful characters. His name is Chance Camelslayer Addison (the Camelslayer part is trademarked, by the way), and every day he stands, not so silently,...Changing tastes and expanding waists
The United States is the fattest country in the world. It is also one of the wealthiest. Those two pieces of trivia are not unrelated. In fact, there’s a noted correlation between bulging pay cheques and burgeoning body mass. The World Health Organisation (WHO) notes...Of Church and State
A chance meeting with a group of Young Missionaries leads Shalailah Medhora to look more deeply at the bonds between Christianity and capitalism. On our first night in the United States, nine blurry-eyed news hounds went out for pizza. The restaurant was just a block...
We asked different groups in Minneapolis what changed in their town after George Floyd's murder?
Not much, was their reply.
@worldpressinst
In @finnowl's first #WPIFellowship blog post, he wonders if the defamation case against Fox News by Dominion Voting Systems will drag down other media, too. Minnesota academics and journalists weigh in:
https://worldpressinstitute.org/will-the-landmark-case-against-fox-news-drag-down-other-media-too/
Check out my latest @GlobalMinnesota podcast episode w/ @Fawzeyah & @SaqibTanveer of this year's @worldpressinst International Fellows! Hear about the challenges of conducting journalism and speaking truth to power in Nigeria and Pakistan.
https://www.globalminnesota.org/event/podcast-episode-global-journalism-with-world-press-institute-fellows/