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‘He Was Mr. BLM’

Posted on | February 20, 2026 | No Comments

Big hat-tip to Luke Rosiak of the Daily Wire for calling attention to a story I missed last year. Probably gonna write more about this later on my Substack, but it’s a big enough story I can give you the gist of it here and still have plenty left to chew on over there. Ten years ago, Wesley Lowery was basically the poster boy for diversity in journalism.

In college, Lowery did internships at the Detroit News, the Columbus Dispatch, and the Wall Street Journal, then hired on at the Boston Globe in 2013, when he was 23. A year later, he was hired at the Washington Post, which had just brought in ex-Globe editor Marty Baron as their new top editor. Not long after Lowery joined the Post, he was sent to Ferguson, Missouri, to cover the 2014 race riots there. Talk about a career being “fast-tracked,” Lowery was moving at hyper-speed — front-page bylines in the Washington Post at age 24? Bob Woodward didn’t even join the Post until he was 27. Lowery’s star soared even higher the next year when he was made the lead reporter on the Post’s “Fatal Force” project, which compiled a database of police shootings (and other fatalities) nationwide, a project awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2016.

There were book deals, etc., and a job with CBS News before, in 2023, Lowery became a faculty member at American University, executive editor of the university’s Investigative Journalism Workshop (IJW).

Behind all this success, however, it appears that Lowery had a drinking problem and also a woman problem — the two problems were not unrelated — and while womanizing drunks have never been rare in the world of journalism, you can’t do that if you’re a university professor, because Title IX essentially criminalizes male heterosexual behavior:

Wesley J. Lowery, a Pulitzer-winning investigative reporter and one of the most influential journalists of his generation, has left his positions as the executive editor of the Investigative Reporting Workshop and as an associate professor of journalism at American University in Washington, DC, after less than two years there. His departure follows a number of complaints against him, according to former colleagues, including at least three Title IX allegations, in which he was accused of improper behavior with colleagues and female students.

That was March 2025, and Lowery’s getting axed from his university gig wasn’t the end of the story. In the post-“Me Too” environment, it was necessary not merely to get Lowery fired from his job, but to drive a stake through the heart of his career, to ensure that he was permanently excluded from journalism forever. Two months after Lowery’s exit from American University, the Columbia Journalism Review published a lengthy account of his habitual lechery. One of the CJR’s sources was Imani Moise, a Wall Street Journal reporter who knew Lowery through the National Association of Black Journalists:

At the time of these encounters — which spanned from 2018 to 2024, when he had reached the height of his media stardom — each of these women viewed Lowery as a professional contact, someone they knew socially and looked up to, not as a romantic partner with whom they were engaging in consensual sex. Until now, some had feared making noise about Lowery, beyond telling a few confidants. “He was the golden boy, held up on this pedestal,” Moise said. She deeply felt his importance to journalism, to American culture, to so much. “He was Mr. BLM.”

Almost like a metaphor or something.



 

Category: Journalism, Media Bias, Racism

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