Baltimore Sun Tweet-up!
Come meet the social media team at the Baltimore Sun and meet and mingle with other Baltimoreans! Here’s a cute graphic I made for the occasion:
Al Sharpton line drawing takes shape
Ever wonder what Al Sharpton would look like with a new hairstyle? I have. Here’s where the hair magic begins… to be continued…
Tracking the Nation: A Simple Video Guide to How You’re Being Spied on Right Now
I created this video with close friend and fellow journalist Lam Thuy Vo about the evolution of electronic privacy. It was picked up by Motherboard. It was my first time drawing illustrations for video.
Did you know on any given day, an average person sends or receives 41.5 text messages, 110 emails, receives 8 mobile calls, visits 94 websites… unknowingly leaving electronic traces through mobile devices, credit cards, and laptops. Meanwhile, a person is recorded dozens of times a day by surveillance cameras… watch the video to hear and see more about our privacy laws.
Remembering Sept. 11
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On Sept. 11, 2001, I remember I was in my high school journalism class, just twenty minutes outside of Washington DC, when I heard news about the attacks. I called my dad, asking about any family members who may have been hurt. Almost 90 percent of my family lives in New York City. I remember leaving school that day with a friend to go to the nearest blood bank to see about donating blood. The lines were so long, out the door, down the street. A student journalist then, I also covered the aftermath of 9-11. Several months later, while in NY at a journalism conference, I skipped out and visited a fire station in Manhattan to say thank you.
Here are other cartoonists, providing a more eloquent picture, of what I can’t put into words.
My friend Barry
Here’s my friend Barry. I drew his head. He recently launched a new personal site. Check it out.
Don’t Call Them “Post-Racial”
I created this illustration and one other infographic for a fantastic report put out by the Applied Research Center and Colorlines.com about young people and how the issue of race affects them.
The Applied Research Center, which publishes Colorlines.com, found this narrative a bit too tidy. So Research Director Dom Apollon and his team did something that needs to happen more often: Actually ask young people what they think about race. They conducted more than a dozen in-depth focus group discussions in the Los Angeles-area with 80 young people like Andy and Jose, ages 18 to 25, on the intersections of race with key systems of society. They found a far more nuanced set of ideas than conventional wisdom has asserted. Download the full findings of the focus groups at ARC.org. Below, Apollon explores the findings in a three-part Colorlines series. Part two, which will bepublished next week, will explore the language young people use to discuss race. Part three will highlight innovative groups working with young people to organize around structural racism.
