Jaeah Lee

Jaeah Lee
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Jaeah Lee is an independent American journalist who writes primarily about justice, race, and labor in America. She is the recipient of the inaugural American Mosaic Journalism Prize, the 2018 Los Angeles Literary Award and was a Knight-Wallace Reporting Fellow at the University of Michigan.[1][2][3] Her reporting work on the racial bias of using rap lyrics as evidence in criminal prosecutions has drawn attention to the acknowledgement of rap as protected speech under the First Amendment, particularly in California.[4][5]

She has been published by major American publications including California Sunday Magazine, VICE News, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Wired, Christian Science Monitor, Global Post, MSNBC, and Democracy Now![1] She also worked as a staff reporter for Mother Jones Magazine.[6]

  1. ^ a b "American Mosaic Journalism Prize Recipient Jaeah Lee". Heising-Simons Foundation. Retrieved 2021-09-07.
  2. ^ "Meet the 2021-2022 Knight-Wallace Reporting Fellows". Wallace House. 2021-06-30. Retrieved 2022-07-27.
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  4. ^ State of California v. Gary Bryant Jr. & Diallo Jackson, 05-152003-0 (Superior Court of the State of California 10-03-2022) ("Accordingly, under the specific circumstances of the case, it was more likely than not that the prosecution's use of defendants' rap lyrics constituted a violation of § 745(a)(2).").
  5. ^ Albeck-Ripka, Livia (2022-08-26). "California Bill Could Restrict the Use of Rap Lyrics in Court". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
  6. ^ Lee, Jaeah. "How science could help find bad cops and prevent police shootings". Mother Jones. Retrieved 2022-07-27.