Yasmine Jumaa
Yasmine Jumaa is a former LPM race and equity reporter. A native Palestinian, she’s interested in issues of diversity, access and themes of inequality.
Before coming to LPM she covered housing and evictions for NPR member station VPM in Richmond, Virginia, where she received regional, Edward R. Murrow Awards for excellence in diversity, equity and inclusion — and in sound. The Virginia Associated Press Broadcast Awards also recognized Jumaa's reporting on Richmond’s public housing authority in its best continuing coverage category. She also published a series investigating two state museums’ records on matters of equity — both internally and to the public.
When Jumaa’s not reporting on her next story, she’s likely making a mess in the kitchen, trying to find a body of water to swim in or spending time with her dogs Nico and Mr. Junior.
-
Last fall in Hardin County, a white middle school boy allegedly tried to rip the hijab from a Black, Muslim teen’s head. It resulted in a physical altercation. -
Experts say erasing people’s true identities in public processes, like death records and the United States Census, can harm survivors.
-
Menstrual products are currently subject to sales tax in Kentucky. But a proposal at the General Assembly seeks to change that.
-
A proposal in the Kentucky General Assembly aims to protect people against utility shut-offs.
-
A Louisville Free Public Library resource aims to increase access to historical Black newspaper archives.
-
With five months remaining this fiscal year, there have been 28 city-ordered encampment clearings and counting. There were only five the year before.
-
Police are still looking for the driver, who they said fled on foot before officers arrived at the scene near Russell Lee Park.
-
Neighborhood Nest aims to provide expecting or recent parents and caregivers with essential products for free.
-
Louisville grassroots groups working to stop violence in their communities can apply for funding to expand the scope of their work.
-
Low-income Kentuckians at risk of losing heat can apply for utility assistance through the end of March or until funds run out.
