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Wendi C. Thomas

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Wendi C. Thomas is a 2016 Harvard Nieman fellow and a senior writing fellow with the Center for Community Change. In April 2017, she launches MLK50, a yearlong reporting and civic engagement project on economic justice.

Uncovering a Hospital’s Predatory Debt-Collection Process and the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Uncovering a Hospital’s Predatory Debt-Collection Process and the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

If poverty isn’t an accident, but a robbery, then there are thieves with names that journalists can uncover.
January 22, 2024
When Is A Remark Racist?

When Is A Remark Racist?

In an increasingly polarized world, journalists need to write with context and precision about race
January 16, 2017
Looking for “Whitelash”

Looking for “Whitelash”

The signs that someone like Donald Trump was coming were right there, in online comments lousy with creatively spelled racial slurs that slipped past even the best filters. They were…
November 11, 2016