Jill Leovy

Jill Leovy is a senior fellow at the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and Policy. She is the author of  Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America, a finalist for the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction.

How We Came Together

America purchased its sense of itself at a high price

By Jill Leovy | Tuesday June 2, 2020

We’ve Got a Fight on Our Hands

Why petty conflicts are so important

By Jill Leovy | Monday March 2, 2020

Continental Drift

Westward expansion delayed a needed national reckoning

By Jill Leovy | Monday March 4, 2019

Paranoia Strikes Deep

What are we hiding from in our policed and gated communities?

By Jill Leovy | Monday December 4, 2017

Robocops and Robbers

Criminal justice in the age of digital spying and surveillance

By Jill Leovy | Monday March 6, 2017

Taking It to the Street

What it’s like to be down and out in America

By Jill Leovy | Monday February 29, 2016

How We Came Together

By Jill Leovy | Tuesday June 2, 2020

We’ve Got a Fight on Our Hands

By Jill Leovy | Monday March 2, 2020

Continental Drift

By Jill Leovy | Monday March 4, 2019

Paranoia Strikes Deep

By Jill Leovy | Monday December 4, 2017

Robocops and Robbers

By Jill Leovy | Monday March 6, 2017

Taking It to the Street

By Jill Leovy | Monday February 29, 2016

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