Emmanuel Felton will join The Washington Post’s America desk as its race and ethnicity reporter.
Felton comes to The Post from BuzzFeed News, where he has worked for nearly two years as an investigative reporter on the inequality desk. Within days of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, he unearthed a scoop about Black Capitol Police officers who said their superiors had failed to prepare them for the ferociousness of the rioters, who spewed racist abuse at them. And before Congress had even voted to recognize President Biden’s victory, Felton filed a story noting that the mostly White insurrectionists appeared to have received kid-glove treatment from authorities.
He lives in New York City and will work out of The Post’s bureau there when he starts June 28.
