Jamie Kalven (born 1948) is an American journalist, author, human rights
activist, and community organizer based in Chicago, Illinois. He founded
the Invisible Institute, a non-profit journalism organization based in
Chicago's South Side. Kalven has been referred to as a "guerrilla
journalist" by Chicago journalist Studs Terkel. His work in the city has
included reporting on police misconduct and poor conditions of public
housing. Kalven won a landmark court case – Kalven v. City of
Chicago – which held that police misconduct records are public
information under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act. Thereafter,
the Institute became a hub for information related to police misconduct
in Chicago. In the aftermath of the 2014 murder of Laquan McDonald by a
police officer, Kalven received accolades for obtaining a copy of an
autopsy report showing that McDonald had been shot 16 times execution-
style, contradicting official reports of a single gunshot wound.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Kalven>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1689:
The Royal Welch Fusiliers (cap badge pictured), one of the
oldest line-infantry regiments of the British Army, was founded.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Welch_Fusiliers>
1819:
The Bank for Savings in the City of New-York, the first savings
bank in New York City, was incorporated.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_for_Savings_in_the_City_of_New-York>
1984:
William Buckley, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency station
chief in Beirut, Lebanon, was kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Francis_Buckley>
1988:
Michael Stone, an Ulster loyalist, attacked the funeral of
three Provisional IRA members, killing three attendees and injuring at
least sixty others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milltown_Cemetery_attack>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
comely:
1. (dated or archaic)
2. Of a person: attractive or pleasing to look at; beautiful, handsome;
also, attractive but not particularly beautiful or handsome.
3. Of a person, an action, behaviour, etc.: meeting accepted moral or
social norms; appropriate, becoming, proper.
4. Of a thing: beautiful, elegant, well-composed; also, delicate, fine.
5. (obsolete) Pleasing to the feelings or senses; agreeable, nice,
pleasant. [...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/comely>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I like mindful people. Fear prevents mindfulness, and then greed
marches in because you are fearful, so you feel like you have to shore
everything up.
--Ursula Goodenough
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ursula_Goodenough>
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