Author Bios

August Brown has covered pop music at the Los Angeles Times since 2005.

Solange Uwimana is an editor and senior researcher at Media Matters. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Colorado.

Kathleen Robin Joyce is a student at Georgetown University and an OtherWords intern at the Institute for Policy Studies.

Richard Wembe Johnson is a plaintiff in the Center for Constitutional Rights lawsuit challenging long-term solitary confinement.

Ted Dreier is a retired teacher. He has written for Truthout and the BR, a branch of German Public Radio. Contact him at [email protected].

Lamont Lilly is an independent journalist, Black radical activist, poet and community organizer based in Durham, North Carolina. In 2016, he was the Workers World Party U.S. vice-presidential candidate. …

Harriet Rowan is a CMD reporter. She majored in Latin American studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and also extensively studied the Middle East. She speaks Spanish and Arabic and …

David Dougherty is a producer for The Real News Network.

Gabriel Reyes is a prisoner at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison and a plaintiff in a 

Todd Lewis Ashker, 52, spent his teenage years ‘in and out of juvenile facilities’ for various nonviolent infractions, and was imprisoned for burglary at the age of 18. In …