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  • Ansel Herz
  • The Seattle Times gets a name change and a new front page, thanks to Black Lives Matter marchers.

Extra, extra, read all about it! This just in from Ansel Herz, who’s covering the Martin Luther King Jr. Day rally at Garfield High School: Seattle Black Lives Matter protesters are distributing modified versions of the Seattle Times. The new paper, called the Seattle Crimes, has a front page full of columns from deceased civil rights leaders.

It would appear that the Crimes attempts to contextualize the current Black Lives Matter movement—activism that arose from the recent deaths of black men like Michael Brown and Eric Garner—in an ongoing struggle for equal rights. The current Seattle Times leads with news about the Seahawks.

Marchers Senait Brown and Gabriel Teodros hold up a cover of the Crimes, folded over a copy of the Times.
  • Ansel Herz
  • Marchers Senait Brown and Gabriel Teodros hold up a cover of the Crimes, folded over a copy of the Times.

The new paper’s weather section predicts showers and gloom. But it also predicts a chance of change.

Head to seattlecrimes.com to read more.

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