Blurry image of a police officer looking into the camera.

Barred from the Story

If Brandi Morin had to place a bet on where she might get arrested, her home Treaty Six territories in Edmonton, Alberta, wouldn’t even make her shortlist. The moment the Indigenous journalist later described as “one of the darkest chapters” of her career began while Morin was covering an Indigenous-led homeless encampment on a cold, harsh winter night.
A comic style illustration of a black man sitting at a laptop and then looking out the window to see two black police officers. He goes outside and has a conversation with the officers and appears to be assaulted before laying on the ground with the officers looking down on him.

COVID Crackdown

Pandemic measures in South Africa are impacting press freedoms and revealing a threatening relationship between the police and the press