Kurtis Lee is a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. He writes news features, narratives and profiles on an array of topics — race, criminal justice, immigration, income inequality, the 2nd Amendment. Lee has filed reports from the unrest in Ferguson, Mo., and chronicled Donald Trump’s rise to the presidency. Prior to joining The Times in August 2014, Lee worked at the Denver Post where he covered state and national politics. He’s also reported from the scenes of destructive wildfires and mass shootings and was a member of the Post staff that won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news coverage of the Aurora theater shooting. He’s a graduate of Temple University.
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The Minneapolis police chief was less emotional than many other witnesses in the George Floyd trial. But his point was the same: Derek Chauvin used excessive force.
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Más de medio millón de personas en Estados Unidos han muerto a causa del COVID-19. La esperanza está a la vista, pero la devastación permanece.
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More than half a million people in the U.S. have died from COVID-19. Hope is in sight, but devastation remains.
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This racist history in rural Alabama has had lasting implications on how Africans Americans view healthcare in America.
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