By Diversifying Newsrooms, We Find People’s Full Humanity

Valerie Castile, the mother of Philando Castile, stands for a few minutes of silence with others who had lost love ones to the police, during a rally in memory of Philando Castile outside City Hall in St. Anthony Village, Minn. in July 2020
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“We probably shouldn’t hire you,” the co-bureau chief said near the end of our interview. I couldn’t argue as she went through the reasons — I was new to the continent and South Africa and didn’t speak any of the . . .