On March 31, 1968, four days before he was murdered, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at the Washington National Cathedral. In his final Sunday sermon, he prepared his listeners for the Poor People’s Campaign—an upcoming march focused on the “poor of America” as part of the civil rights movement. In that powerful sermon, he said, “We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
At The Injustice Report, we believe firmly that we cannot work toward justice unless we understand the injustices committed against people made vulnerable by policies and prejudices, systems and stereotypes.
We believe this work is done best in community. The co-founders—Alejandra Oliva, Lauren Pinkston, and Jessica Goudeau—will report on injustices in their own communities. And we also hope you will form a community with us. Some newsletters will have ways to give or calls to action. Others will focus on sharing knowledge of what’s happening on the ground where injustice is occurring, and centering the people who are most affected. Our goal is to create a community that can band together to stand against injustice in small and large ways.
Why subscribe?
Subscribers receive our regular reported analyses in their inboxes. Eventually, we will provide you with opportunities to support our work, but for now, we want to focus on building this community together.
Contributors
Alejandra Oliva is an essayist, embroiderer, and translator. Her book, Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith and Migration, was published by Astra House, and received a Whiting Nonfiction Grant. Her writing has been included in Best American Travel Writing 2020, and was honored with an Aspen Summer Words Emerging Writers Fellowship. She was the Yale Whitney Humanities Center Franke Visiting Fellow in Spring 2022. Find out more on her website and follow her on Instagram and Bluesky.
Lauren Pinkston is a researcher with Freedom Business Alliance. She has a PhD from Clemson University and her research pairs human trafficking crises with sustainable business models. She is a specialized consultant for social enterprises, nonprofits, and anti-trafficking initiatives focusing on creative solutions to global and domestic social justice issues. She hosts the "Upwardly Dependent" podcast and writes at her on newsletter, The Mindful Middle. Find out more on her website and follow her on Instagram.
Jessica Goudeau is the author of After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America (which won the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize) and We Were Illegal: Uncovering a Texas Family’s Mythmaking and Migration (the New York Times named it one of “19 Nonfiction Books to Read This Summer” and an Editors’ Choice book, and it was an NPR Book of the Day). She’s written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Washington Post, among many other places, and produced short documentaries distributed by Teen Vogue and The New Yorker about young women crossing borders. As Jess Cannon, she is launching a cozy mystery series in 2025 with Dutton. She has a PhD in literature from the University of Texas and teaches Creative Nonfiction at Wilkes University. She co-hosts “The Beautiful and Banned” podcast about banned books, plays, and films now and throughout history with Christine Renee Miller. Find out more on her website, and follow her on TikTok, Bluesky, and Instagram.
