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As a former NBC News government editor (and fill-in NBC BLK managing editor from time to time back in the day), I'm disheartened to see how many journalists of color were cut in the network's rush to "lighten its load."
October 15, 2025 at 10:47 PM
As a former NBC News government editor (and fill-in NBC BLK managing editor from time to time back in the day), I'm disheartened to see how many journalists of color were cut in the network's rush to "lighten its load."
I recently coached a group of visiting Russian journalists — reporters whose courage often far exceeds their press freedom under President Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian regime.
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October 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I recently coached a group of visiting Russian journalists — reporters whose courage often far exceeds their press freedom under President Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian regime.
It's a strange thing to take sudden stewardship of a home in which you were always a “guest.” When the hosts leave the walls, corridors, treasured mementos, and trappings suddenly feel ephemeral. History whispers and echoes. Recent memories begin to vanish around the edges as new realities settle.
July 1, 2025 at 12:49 AM
It's a strange thing to take sudden stewardship of a home in which you were always a “guest.” When the hosts leave the walls, corridors, treasured mementos, and trappings suddenly feel ephemeral. History whispers and echoes. Recent memories begin to vanish around the edges as new realities settle.
Outgoing editor-in-chief @jamilsmith.bsky.social:"Too many journalists and media outlets continue to treat the horror of systemic and individual racism as if it were still somehow uncanny, a mysterious and ethereal force that cannot be properly quantified or described — let alone properly covered."
June 12, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Outgoing editor-in-chief @jamilsmith.bsky.social:"Too many journalists and media outlets continue to treat the horror of systemic and individual racism as if it were still somehow uncanny, a mysterious and ethereal force that cannot be properly quantified or described — let alone properly covered."
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Some of y’all noticed I’ve been uncharacteristically offline. This is why, and I remain on leave for a few weeks to handle a PTSD relapse. CJR was dogged in its pursuit of my story. Because of what I do and who I am, I felt that I had to answer their questions honestly.
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Journalists Attest to Experiences of Sexual Misconduct with Wesley Lowery
Lowery rose to prominence as a reporter and media thinker. Women in the industry say he engaged in sexual harassment and assault.
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May 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Some of y’all noticed I’ve been uncharacteristically offline. This is why, and I remain on leave for a few weeks to handle a PTSD relapse. CJR was dogged in its pursuit of my story. Because of what I do and who I am, I felt that I had to answer their questions honestly.
www.cjr.org/feature-2/we...
www.cjr.org/feature-2/we...
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Colorado football breakout star Shedeur Sanders’ belated selection by the Cleveland Browns in the fifth round of the 2025 NFL draft is an example of the racialized double standard applied to Black athletes. 🖊️ @chandelis.bsky.social 🧵
April 28, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Colorado football breakout star Shedeur Sanders’ belated selection by the Cleveland Browns in the fifth round of the 2025 NFL draft is an example of the racialized double standard applied to Black athletes. 🖊️ @chandelis.bsky.social 🧵
As I recently wrote for @theemancipator.org , as a descendant daughter of the Mississippi Delta, Ryan Coogler’s new film “Sinners” touched an ancestral chord in my spirit. (Spoiler alert) 🧵 theemancipator.org/2025/04/26/t...
'Sinners' and the beautiful struggle to belong and survive
The film celebrates the unsung spirit and soul of Southern Black and Brown communities
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April 27, 2025 at 1:07 AM
As I recently wrote for @theemancipator.org , as a descendant daughter of the Mississippi Delta, Ryan Coogler’s new film “Sinners” touched an ancestral chord in my spirit. (Spoiler alert) 🧵 theemancipator.org/2025/04/26/t...
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I told ChatGPT that I wanted to be a philosopher as a kid.
And then it said that I was a DEI hire?!?!!??
God, we are fucked.
And then it said that I was a DEI hire?!?!!??
God, we are fucked.
April 2, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I told ChatGPT that I wanted to be a philosopher as a kid.
And then it said that I was a DEI hire?!?!!??
God, we are fucked.
And then it said that I was a DEI hire?!?!!??
God, we are fucked.
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President Donald Trump’s newest executive order “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” is anything but. Instead, declarations that the Smithsonian Institution has “in recent years, come under the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology,” are blatantly racist. 🧵
March 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM
President Donald Trump’s newest executive order “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” is anything but. Instead, declarations that the Smithsonian Institution has “in recent years, come under the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology,” are blatantly racist. 🧵
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We, the people, are at our own precipice moment in modern American history.
We must stand poised to defend an inclusive past in order to ensure an antiracist future.
We must stand poised to defend an inclusive past in order to ensure an antiracist future.
March 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM
We, the people, are at our own precipice moment in modern American history.
We must stand poised to defend an inclusive past in order to ensure an antiracist future.
We must stand poised to defend an inclusive past in order to ensure an antiracist future.
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It doesn’t take much more than a cursory thumb through history to find examples of dictatorial regimes that decimated art and rewrote history in the lead-up to atrocious civil and human rights violations.
March 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM
It doesn’t take much more than a cursory thumb through history to find examples of dictatorial regimes that decimated art and rewrote history in the lead-up to atrocious civil and human rights violations.
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President Trump signed an executive order that he said would “begin eliminating the federal Department of Education once and for all.” Attempts to shutter the Department of Education are congressionally unlikely and legally questionable. theemancipator.org/2025/03/19/s...
Our children are not pawns in Trump’s authoritarian power grab
The president’s efforts threaten to roll back the U.S. education landscape to a Jim Crow-era, apartheid state
theemancipator.org
March 21, 2025 at 12:07 AM
President Trump signed an executive order that he said would “begin eliminating the federal Department of Education once and for all.” Attempts to shutter the Department of Education are congressionally unlikely and legally questionable. theemancipator.org/2025/03/19/s...
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The real reason Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, sparks outrage: Black women and the right to leisure🧵
🖊️ Halimah Abdullah
🖊️ Halimah Abdullah
March 14, 2025 at 12:47 AM
The real reason Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, sparks outrage: Black women and the right to leisure🧵
🖊️ Halimah Abdullah
🖊️ Halimah Abdullah
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“On dangerous times and The State of the People.” In this edition of Fortify, you can watch our segment with @theemancipator.org on The Great Resegregation. open.substack.com/pub/nicolefc...
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#StateofthePeople
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#StateofthePeople
On dangerous times and "The State of the People"
Ahead of the State of the Union, I joined Amber Payne and Ibram X. Kendi of The Emancipator, alongside sociologist Victor Ray. The topic? The Great Resegregation. History would like a word with us.
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March 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
“On dangerous times and The State of the People.” In this edition of Fortify, you can watch our segment with @theemancipator.org on The Great Resegregation. open.substack.com/pub/nicolefc...
@victorerikray.bsky.social @amberpayne.bsky.social
@ibramxk.bsky.social
#StateofthePeople
@victorerikray.bsky.social @amberpayne.bsky.social
@ibramxk.bsky.social
#StateofthePeople
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With abortion rights under attack nationwide, the fight for reproductive freedom has never been more urgent. Join The Emancipator’s @amberpayne.bsky.social and U.S. Rep. @pressley.house.gov (D-Mass.) at @sxsw.com for a critical fireside chat on the state of abortion access.
🗓️ March 9 - 2:30 CT
🗓️ March 9 - 2:30 CT
February 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM
With abortion rights under attack nationwide, the fight for reproductive freedom has never been more urgent. Join The Emancipator’s @amberpayne.bsky.social and U.S. Rep. @pressley.house.gov (D-Mass.) at @sxsw.com for a critical fireside chat on the state of abortion access.
🗓️ March 9 - 2:30 CT
🗓️ March 9 - 2:30 CT
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The Emancipator welcomes @nicolefcarr.bsky.social and @victorerikray.bsky.social to explore how Trump is resegregating America. Watch #TheStateofThePeople LIVE here: www.youtube.com/live/wW1Y4hp...
March 4, 2025 at 11:14 AM
The Emancipator welcomes @nicolefcarr.bsky.social and @victorerikray.bsky.social to explore how Trump is resegregating America. Watch #TheStateofThePeople LIVE here: www.youtube.com/live/wW1Y4hp...
Very honored to edit contributing senior editor, @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social, in her most recent essay for @theemancipator.org. As the granddaughter of Chinese revolutionaries, she chronicles the unimaginable choices her elders made and the heavy toll their violent resistance exacted on her family.
February 28, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Very honored to edit contributing senior editor, @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social, in her most recent essay for @theemancipator.org. As the granddaughter of Chinese revolutionaries, she chronicles the unimaginable choices her elders made and the heavy toll their violent resistance exacted on her family.
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In this perilous moment, when “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” for millions of Americans teeters on the edge of a blade, many in the federal workforce are holding the line. Read and subscribe to our newsletter: theemancipator.org/2025/02/18/s...
When the system is rigged, resist
Rebellion is often born from ordinary people in everyday spaces.
theemancipator.org
February 19, 2025 at 1:00 AM
In this perilous moment, when “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” for millions of Americans teeters on the edge of a blade, many in the federal workforce are holding the line. Read and subscribe to our newsletter: theemancipator.org/2025/02/18/s...
The @theemancipator.org is headed to Howard University with our co-founder @ibramxk.bsky.social this summer as he builds the Institute for Advanced Study. The institute will focus on the interdisciplinary study of racism in the global African Diaspora. bit.ly/3Q9yiAs
The Emancipator is moving to Howard University
As Ibram X. Kendi moves to the venerated HBCU this summer, the magazine will also begin a new chapter
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February 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
The @theemancipator.org is headed to Howard University with our co-founder @ibramxk.bsky.social this summer as he builds the Institute for Advanced Study. The institute will focus on the interdisciplinary study of racism in the global African Diaspora. bit.ly/3Q9yiAs
Trump’s toxic anti-Black, anti-LGBTQ, anti-immigrant, and anti-woman policies are fueling the current wave of expatriation (or at least daydreams of less hostile climes). So, what's your "Blaxit" strategy? theemancipator.org/2025/02/06/t...
Black Americans find a racism respite through ‘Blaxit’
Trump’s toxic anti-Black, anti-LGBTQ, anti-immigrant, and anti-woman policies are fueling the current wave of expatriation.
theemancipator.org
February 6, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Trump’s toxic anti-Black, anti-LGBTQ, anti-immigrant, and anti-woman policies are fueling the current wave of expatriation (or at least daydreams of less hostile climes). So, what's your "Blaxit" strategy? theemancipator.org/2025/02/06/t...
You gotta love how we members of the 92% vowed to rest and, in our time of ease, sistas created a whole virtual HBCU. 😂 Am I enrolled? Yep. A full slate of classes. See ya on the yard!
Dr. Leah Barlow, an African American Studies professor, went viral on TikTok when she shared course syllabus intended for her undergraduate students. To her surprise, "HillmanTok University," a free virtual educational community, was created.
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It’s time for class! Leah Barlow @Dr. Barlow’s Intro to Af-Am, an African American Studies professor at North Carolina A&T State University, went viral on TikTok when she shared course syllabus and r...
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January 29, 2025 at 8:34 PM
You gotta love how we members of the 92% vowed to rest and, in our time of ease, sistas created a whole virtual HBCU. 😂 Am I enrolled? Yep. A full slate of classes. See ya on the yard!
Whatever “making America great again” truly means, Trump's early moves-- and his blitz of harmful executive orders-- signal that segregation is essential to it. Distinguished race scholar Victor Ray urges us to call the new segregationist movement by its name, civility be damned. bit.ly/3EemR7Q
Eliminating DEI isn't just racist — it's segregationist
New segregationists’ need to use euphemisms shows the weakness of their intellectual position and the Civil Rights Movement’s moral clarity.
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January 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Whatever “making America great again” truly means, Trump's early moves-- and his blitz of harmful executive orders-- signal that segregation is essential to it. Distinguished race scholar Victor Ray urges us to call the new segregationist movement by its name, civility be damned. bit.ly/3EemR7Q
A social justice journalist mama's grief: When your child dials 911 at school because, after a night of community raids, he is terrified ICE will come into his school and take his immigrant friends away. Now I must explain that calling 911 will not help you.
January 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
A social justice journalist mama's grief: When your child dials 911 at school because, after a night of community raids, he is terrified ICE will come into his school and take his immigrant friends away. Now I must explain that calling 911 will not help you.
Coronation day on Capitol Hill... may whatever you hold dear preserve and keep you and those you love safe in the days ahead. theemancipator.org/2025/01/20/c...
Coronation day on Capitol Hill
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January 20, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Coronation day on Capitol Hill... may whatever you hold dear preserve and keep you and those you love safe in the days ahead. theemancipator.org/2025/01/20/c...
@theemancipator.org asked activists, lawmakers, and academics to weigh in on a day in which we honor King’s devotion to equity and community building while also bearing witness to Trump's second inauguration, the antithesis of those aims. Here's what they said: theemancipator.org/2025/01/20/t...
How can Black and Brown communities combine their collective might for the fight ahead?
As Donald Trump retakes office, activists, lawmakers, and academics build on Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy of community organizing.
theemancipator.org
January 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
@theemancipator.org asked activists, lawmakers, and academics to weigh in on a day in which we honor King’s devotion to equity and community building while also bearing witness to Trump's second inauguration, the antithesis of those aims. Here's what they said: theemancipator.org/2025/01/20/t...