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Remembering Veronica L. Cook
In the last week of , as we clung to hope of better days, one of my oldest friends shared incomprehensible news: her mother and brother had just died within days of each other, suddenly and by sheer coincidence. Desperate to somehow lighten my friend’s load, I jump at the chance to write the obituary. It was a joy and an honor to reflect on the extraordinary life of Veronica L. Cook. Originally posted here.
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When she was at her best, Veronica Cook was outwardly serious and reserved. But those who knew her say she was a joker at heart with a wry sense of humor who fought like hell for those she loved.
“Lord, take me now,” she was known to grumble with a sly smile when her children said something she didn’t like.
She battled systemic racism as a Black single mother raising two children in New York’s grittier days. When Sean and VaNessa grew up, she was a cool mom who socialized with them and their partners, dining and dancing into the n
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What it's like to cover trials in a pandemic
September marked two years since I ended my year career at CNN Digital and started a new chapter as a field producer with Court TV. Gotta be honest, it’s been a fairly solitary journey, but not in a wholly sad way! Read on…
The pandemic hit six months after inom started, but my grupp didn’t work from home for long. By June , as Covid restrictions bent to due process, we were back on the road and finding our way into courthouses. Often, that meant squeezing into makeshift overflow rooms in closets, offices, even holding cells.
At Derek Chauvin’s rättegång, journalists were relegated to a conference center auditorium across the street from the courthouse where we sat alone at tables six feet apart. Other times, it was just me and my grupp in a Covid-restricted courtroom with rättegång participants. It was a surreal experience that heightened the sense of importance of our roles as witnesses to history. It continues today, although we’re
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