HeyJaredJonathan Conyers
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- Sep 2, 2026
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The slow kind of lynching: When the media becomes the mob (opens the original)
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OPINION: Jason Arday's family says misinformation and public scrutiny contributed to his final days as debates continue over the treatment of Black academics. Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. Not after the headlines. Not after the pile on. Not after you spent three weeks deciding a man’s whole life was a crime scene before anyone proved a single thing. You do not get to call this a tragedy when you buil
When the Water Gave Him Back: A Letter to White America (opens the original)
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OPINION: From Emmitt Till to Nolan Wells, Tasia Fortune, Trey Reed and Kohen Wiley, the pattern of Black death needs to be a wake-up call to lawmakers in Mississippi. Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. You do not know what it is to bury a child and be told to grieve more quietly. You do not know what it is to ask a simple question, what happened to my son, and watch an entire system organize itself agains
Still clocked in: What independence day owes my ancestors (opens the original)
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Author and respiratory therapist Jonathan Conyers reflects on what 250 years of American independence means to him as a descendant of enslaved people. Every July 4th, while most of the country is at a barbecue or watching fireworks light up the sky, I’m at work. It’s not a boycott. It’s not a statement. It’s just where I’ve always found myself, in the hospital, doing the job, while the country celebrates the freedom my ancestors weren’t afforded. And there’s a symmetry that I can’t ignore. In 17
Jaylen Brown was labeled a problem at 19. Boston just proved the label stuck (opens the original)
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Author Jonathan Conyers argues that Jaylen Brown continues to be punished by the NBA for being a "man who reads and speaks his mind, labeled a problem by anonymous voices who never have to put their names on it." Jaylen Brown was 19 years old when a grown man with an NBA front office job looked at his file and decided he had a flaw. Not a bad shot. Not a bad attitude. The flaw was that he was too smart for the league. Marc Spears reported it in 2016. Jaylen confirmed it himself years later, sitt
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