[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 11 (Friday, January 17, 2020)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E59]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 HONORING THE LEGACY OF JONATHAN WOLMAN

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                           HON. RASHIDA TLAIB

                              of michigan

                    in the house of representatives

                        Friday, January 17, 2020

  Ms. TLAIB. Madam Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to the memory 
of Mr. Jonathan Wolman, a man who spent forty-six years of his life 
tirelessly dedicated to pursuing the truth and reporting on the stories 
that have shaped modern-day America.
  Following in his father's footsteps, Mr. Jonathan Wolman began his 
career in journalism as a newsperson for the Associated Press's (AP) 
Wisconsin bureau in 1973. His talent for reading the political currents 
coursing through the hallways of Congress and the state capitals was 
readily evident to his coworkers and readers from the very beginning. 
Later that same year the AP sent him to Detroit for the first time, 
where he would cover the election of Coleman Young, the first African 
American mayor in a majority minority city.
  Mr. Wolman also reported about Fannie Lou Hamer's voting rights 
campaign. Hamer's effort led to thousands of African Americans gaining 
the right to vote. His career soon brought him to Washington D.C., 
where he would cover events that shook the nation like the Three Mile 
Island nuclear disaster and the No Gun Ri massacre, the latter of which 
would go on to earn the AP the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative 
Reporting in 2000. After a two-year stint as senior vice president of 
the AP, Mr. Wolman moved back west in 2004, working for the Denver Post 
for three years until his return to the Motor City as the editor and 
publisher of the Detroit News in 2007. There he would spend the rest of 
his life reporting on some of our great city's most uncertain years, 
asking the tough questions and holding our leaders to account until his 
passing on April 15, 2019.
  We owe a debt of gratitude for the hard work and dedication of Mr. 
Jonathan Wolman. His objectivity and journalistic integrity will be 
forever remembered. It is with great honor that I ask you to join me in 
honor of his memory and upon his recognition at Rainbow Push's Let 
Freedom Ring Awards.

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