Wesley Lowery is a lot of things: a former Washington Post reporter, 60 Minutes correspondent, CNN contributor, author, Pulitzer Prize winner, “Mr. BLM,” and now, an alleged sexual harasser and assaulter.
On Wednesday, the Columbia Journalism Review published a detailed account that cited multiple women, including some who went on the record, detailing how they were victimized by “Mr. BLM.”
Betsy Morais writes, “Among young reporters, he is perhaps best known for questioning traditional journalistic objectivity, noting its failures to reckon with racism. But for some women in journalism, his standing is more complicated.”
In addition to that crusade against journalistic objectivity, he has cast the American founding as a “racialized caste system” and claimed that opposition to the Obama administration was part of a “whitelash.”…