All posts by Kia Gregory

Kia Gregory is a journalist drawn to people living on the margins. In her work, Gregory often shows how people and their neighborhoods are affected by public policy. She has covered local politics, education and criminal justice, and won numerous awards for her enterprise reporting and narrative writing. Gregory has written for magazines such as The Atlantic, The New Republic and The New Yorker, and has been on staff at the New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Philadelphia Weekly; a portfolio of her work here. Gregory is also an author at Knopf, working on a narrative non-fiction book INDICTMENT: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY, interweaving the stories of four people who have been indelibly marked by ongoing police violence against African Americans, and who are on the front lines for justice and healing. Gregory, a Philadelphia native, lives in New York, and can be contacted at kiagregory@live.com.

Keeping standards high at Boys Latin

David Hardy believes every young man at Boys’ Latin is “the architect of his own fortune.” But to build that future, students must first pass inspection. The high school also embodies Hardy’s vision of getting more boys, particularly African American boys, into college, an uphill battle. (The Philadelphia Inquirer)