The Whitest News You Know
We need a far more profound conception of white supremacy and how the mainstream press has always been complicit in it.
Aaron Miguel Cantú
Aaron Miguel Cantú is currently a newspaper reporter in New Mexico. He’s written for national and regional publications and contributed to the book Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States. His journalism has won several awards.
Enemy of the People
August 2, 2018
Editor’s note: When Aaron Cantú arrived at his new job at the Santa Fe Reporter last year, he came with the baggage of a recent arrest. Two months earlier, he spent a night in jail with hundreds of others detained during protests on Inauguration Day in Washington, D.C. His ...
Baristas of the Brave New Data State
Howard Schultz, the CEO of the Starbucks Corporation, was disturbed by what he saw around him: plywood-boarded windows, dilapidated homes, the spilling guts of suburban poverty in Ferguson, Missouri. Schultz toured the city the year after protests there captured nationwide ...
Thin Blue Spin
Not long after Micah Johnson mortally gunned down five Dallas-area police officers and wounded nine others in July, the social media mavens at the Dallas Police Department tweeted out a picture of a man they identified as a suspect in the shooting rampage. They also asked their ...