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Black Women’s Lives Matter: Film Reveals Little-Known Story of the Grim Sleeper

Sonali Kolhatkar / Truthdig Dec 18, 2014 As an invigorated movement emerges against police killings of black men, a timely new documentary examines American law enforcement's negligence in the grisly killings of black women for over two and a half decades. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Deja Newspapers: On Getting Canned by Los Angeles Times … Again

Mark Heisler / Truthdig Nov 10, 2014 A funny thing happened on the way to my second column since the Los Angeles Times hired me back. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Kill the Messenger: Gary Webb Connected the CIA to Crack and Was Hounded to Death

Peter Z. Scheer / Truthdig Oct 9, 2014 A new movie profiles journalist Gary Webb, who exposed the CIA's involvement with the U.S. crack epidemic and later committed suicide. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

L.A. Times Reporter Cleared Stories With CIA Before Publication

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Sep 7, 2014 In a revelation that seems to vindicate long-aired warnings about how state intimidation worsens the corruption of a press already defanged by the implosion of its financial model, documents obtained by The Intercept show that a prominent national security reporter for the Los Angeles Times "routinely submitted drafts and detailed summaries of his stories to CIA press handlers prior to publication." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The New York Times’ Desperate Dive to the Bottom

Bill Boyarsky / Truthdig Jun 24, 2014 The motto of The New York Times has long been “All the News That’s Fit to Print.” After reading the Times report on how the paper might survive the digital era, I’m afraid it could be overtaken by a concept called “good enough.” Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Schlubs, Pick-Up Artists and Nerds: Hollywood Gets Its Close-Up in the Isla Vista Debate

Kasia Anderson / Truthdig May 29, 2014 As is always the case when catastrophic outbursts can be in any way linked to entertainment and mass culture, some critics have zoomed in on Hollywood as a fomenting agent for grandiose and antisocial delusions that wind their way into volatile minds like Elliot Rodger's -- and everyone else’s, for that matter. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

#YesAllWomen Are Speaking Up: How the Hashtag Has Started a Much-Needed Conversation

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig May 28, 2014 In the aftermath of the horrific Isla Vista slayings, which some have speculated were fueled by misogynist extremism, women in the Twitterverse have decided it's about time they talk about male privilege. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Never Forget Ruben Salazar, ‘The Man in the Middle’

Bill Boyarsky / Truthdig May 6, 2014 Ruben Salazar was a crusading journalist for the Los Angeles Times and television station KMEX until he was killed by a deputy sheriff’s tear gas projectile in East Los Angeles during the Chicano Moratorium march against the Vietnam War on Aug. 29, 1970.Ruben Salazar was a crusading journalist for the Los Angeles Times and television station KMEX until he was killed by a deputy sheriff’s tear gas projectile during a march against the Vietnam War in 1970. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

We Locked ’Em Up, Threw Away the Key

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Apr 21, 2014 You had to be there! Jesse Jackson, in the company of the real life Rubin "Hurricane" Carter at a jailhouse screening of "The Hurricane" before a mostly black and brown audience whose future prospects seemed as drab as their faded inmate uniforms. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )