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Alison Flowers @alisonflowers.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

“For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat.” Can we at least share the value that people deserve to eat? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/u...

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Food Banks Brace for Overwhelming Demand as SNAP Cutoff Looms

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Our latest story about prominent Chicago activist turned politician Andrew Holmes, who is facing new scrutiny as lawsuit alleges sexual assault of teenage girl. Also details how some families felt exploited. With @alisonflowers.bsky.social @chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/28/a...

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Prominent activist turned politician faces new scrutiny as lawsuit alleges sexual assault of teenage girl

A survivor of sex trafficking has sued anti-violence activist and Dolton trustee Andrew Holmes, alleging he sexually assaulted her at age 16.

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Alison Flowers @alisonflowers.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

If you’d like to learn more about Robert Johnson’s case, and about how wrongful convictions happen in general, this is a powerful podcast episode that is about as granular as it gets. Well done, Robert and the Exoneration Project’s Lauren Myerscough-Mueller! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/5...

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#534 Ben Bowlin with Robert Johnson

Podcast Episode · Wrongful Conviction · 07/17/2025 · 35m

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Alison Flowers @alisonflowers.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

What a powerful experience to present w/ Robert Johnson at @medillschool.bsky.social Midwest Solutions Journalism Summer Summit. A far cry from the Hill Correctional Center interview room. Thank you @debofficially.bsky.social + @amberpayne.bsky.social. And esp to Robert for sharing his survival.

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Alison Flowers @alisonflowers.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Robert Johnson and I are excited to join this summit at Medill this Friday! See you there @ 303 E Wacker 🙌

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Alison Flowers @alisonflowers.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Ready to transform conflict into constructive change? Join us at the Medill Midwest Solutions Journalism Hub Summer Summit 6/27 in Chicago. From deep listening techniques to investigative solutions reporting, discover how journalism can be a force for meaningful impact.

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Summer Summit

The Medill Midwest Solutions Journalism Hub invites journalists and media professionals to join our transformative Summer Summit.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Really important thread on persecution of scientists and immigrants and a woman who is both.

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Alison Flowers @alisonflowers.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Last week, Robert Johnson was in a prison cell. Now he’s free, after almost 30 years, riding on the Ferris wheel high above the City of Chicago.

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Alison Flowers @alisonflowers.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

“I didn’t think this night was going to happen. They had me in their chains for 28 years and 10 months of my life for something I didn’t have nothing to do with.”

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Robert Johnson is Free / Full Livestream

https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-man-robert-johnson-has-conviction-1996-murder-eddie-binion-vacated-serving-30-years-prison/15938262/

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Alison Flowers @alisonflowers.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

The judge vacated Robert Johnson’s conviction! His grandmother Mary Robinson said: “Thank you Lord. You did good. You did good.” We are hopeful he will be released tomorrow after another hearing.

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Alison Flowers @alisonflowers.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Part Two: There’s A Delicate Alchemy to Overturning A Wrongful Conviction. Photo of Robert Johnson, his family and a blurb from his letter to me which I read ar the end of the Interview. www.wbez.org/curious-city...

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Alison Flowers @alisonflowers.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Next Wednesday, we hope, Robert Johnson will finally walk free after 30 years behind bars for crime he did not commit. On WBEZ’s Curious City, we tackle the question of why. Why — when everyone always knew Robert was innocent — has it taken so long? www.wbez.org/curious-city... @invisible.institute

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Why does it take so long to free an innocent person from prison? The case of Robert Johnson.

Now, three decades after his arrest, a judge will decide whether to release Robert Johnson later this month.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

If only the New York Times had written headlines this clear and direct before the election.

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Alison Flowers @alisonflowers.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

In 2011, a lawyer told me Jennifer Del Prete’s case was the one that kept her up at night. A mom and daycare worker sentenced in 2005 for murder under the debunked diagnosis of shaken-baby syndrome. Today, after more than 20 years, a judge granted her a certificate of innocence, clearing her name.

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Alison Flowers @alisonflowers.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Am I alone in feeling this is scary high for being a “low” level of support for state violence? A Gallup study says support for death penalty in U.S. is at its *lowest* level in five decades at 53%. www.newsnationnow.com/crime/suppor...

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Harebrained @harebrained.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Morning sketch

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Alison Flowers @alisonflowers.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

—Oshkosh B’Gosh sales associate 🧸 —Nanny 🍼 —French language and instructor 🇫🇷 —TV news reporter 🎤 —Press secretary for Beyond Coal 🌎

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Claudia Stellar, PhD @claudiastellar.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

"We cannot allow the U.S. government to turn its back on one of its most vulnerable citizens. Time is running out. Casey’s loved ones deserve more than indifference to their cries for help. Casey deserves justice, and we must demand it." #FindTaylorCasey #TransAwarenessWeek

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Claudia Stellar, PhD @claudiastellar.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

The U.S. govt's indifference to Taylor's case "is especially egregious given the steady flow of U.S. tourism to the Bahamas — more than 5 million visitors annually — and the known threat of human trafficking on the island." #FindTaylorCasey #TransAwarenessWeek

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Claudia Stellar, PhD @claudiastellar.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

My friend Taylor Casey, a Black trans Chicago woman, went missing from the Sivananda Yoga Retreat in the Bahamas this summer. My friend Emily wrote this piece demanding the government help us #FindTaylorCasey. Please help us amplify it. #TransAwarenessWeek www.chicagotribune.com/2024/11/15/o...

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Emily Williams: A Black trans Army veteran vanished in the Bahamas. Why won’t her country help find her?

Despite pleas from Taylor Casey’s family, the U.S. government has taken no action to intervene in the investigation into her disappearance.

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