Wed 2/20 @ 7PM
Cleveland news junkies will remember Kyle Swenson as an investigative reporter for Scene in the early 2010s. He went on to bigger and better things, first as a reporters at the alternative newsweekly New Times Broward-Palm Beach, then on to the venerable Washington Post, where he’s currently a reporter on their Morning Mix team.
And he’s also just published his first book, Good Kids, Bad City: A Story of Race and Wrongful Conviction in America. It brings him back to his Cleveland days, expanding on a story he wrote for Scene in 2011, about three men wrongfully convicted for a 1975 murder based on the false testimony of one 12-year-old witness. Initially sentenced to death, they were finally exonerated and released from prison after nearly 40 years.
Swenson will be at Visible Voice Books in Tremont to talk about the story and how he went about reporting it and then turning it into a book by placing the story in the context of urban decay, corruption, racism and a broken and unequal justice system.
The event is free, and Visible Voice has beer, wine and pastries for sale, or you can bring a pizza up from Crust Pizza downstairs.
visiblevoicebooks.com/events/good-kids-bad-city-kyle-swenson/