Nicole Carr
@nicolefcarr.bsky.social
Digital Expat. Journalist. Speaker. Morehouse College Visiting Asst.journalism professor. Book writing 📚 + Globetrotting 🌎+ Searching for the ancestors with my own legacies 👧🏽👧🏽👦🏾 🇺🇸🇯🇲✨💕💚
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FORTIFY Newsletter: nicolefcarr.substack.com
Website: www.nicolefcarr.com
Thanks to Ben’s #ScholarSunday for sharing this work including my ‘History and a Homecoming’ essay for Fortify.
October 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Thanks to Ben’s #ScholarSunday for sharing this work including my ‘History and a Homecoming’ essay for Fortify.
Did you know you can also listen to Fortify? Subscribe and check out the library of newsletters centering Black history, education, art and storytellers (including fellow journalists) here: open.substack.com/pub/nicolefc... ✨🖤
October 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Did you know you can also listen to Fortify? Subscribe and check out the library of newsletters centering Black history, education, art and storytellers (including fellow journalists) here: open.substack.com/pub/nicolefc... ✨🖤
Whenever I can take my time in the Atlanta airport, I do. Never forget.
October 17, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Whenever I can take my time in the Atlanta airport, I do. Never forget.
330 page reading for the week.
Analysis.
6:27 a.m. homework submission.
Progress. Progress…Focus.
Analysis.
6:27 a.m. homework submission.
Progress. Progress…Focus.
October 15, 2025 at 10:31 AM
330 page reading for the week.
Analysis.
6:27 a.m. homework submission.
Progress. Progress…Focus.
Analysis.
6:27 a.m. homework submission.
Progress. Progress…Focus.
Attended the soft opening for my friend/soror’s new Atlanta bookstore.
Dr. Key has Double Tax right next to the cash register! @itsafronomics.bsky.social ✨
Dr. Key has Double Tax right next to the cash register! @itsafronomics.bsky.social ✨
October 12, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Attended the soft opening for my friend/soror’s new Atlanta bookstore.
Dr. Key has Double Tax right next to the cash register! @itsafronomics.bsky.social ✨
Dr. Key has Double Tax right next to the cash register! @itsafronomics.bsky.social ✨
Black journalists. The six percent.
To bear witness and speak in a room full of ancestors and descendants…
Last week’s “Journalism in Crisis” conversation at Morehouse College was necessary.
Thank you to everyone who took time to be in community with us.
To bear witness and speak in a room full of ancestors and descendants…
Last week’s “Journalism in Crisis” conversation at Morehouse College was necessary.
Thank you to everyone who took time to be in community with us.
October 11, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Black journalists. The six percent.
To bear witness and speak in a room full of ancestors and descendants…
Last week’s “Journalism in Crisis” conversation at Morehouse College was necessary.
Thank you to everyone who took time to be in community with us.
To bear witness and speak in a room full of ancestors and descendants…
Last week’s “Journalism in Crisis” conversation at Morehouse College was necessary.
Thank you to everyone who took time to be in community with us.
Spoke about race, media, industry and America with April Ryan’s USC “Fact-Based Reporting and the Rise of Independent Journalism” study group. April is the longest serving Black member of the White House Press Corps. What a conversation. Grateful for students who have the fire for these times.
October 6, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Spoke about race, media, industry and America with April Ryan’s USC “Fact-Based Reporting and the Rise of Independent Journalism” study group. April is the longest serving Black member of the White House Press Corps. What a conversation. Grateful for students who have the fire for these times.
This week I moderated a “Crisis in Journalism” panel at Morehouse College. Our panelists were NABJ National President, @errinhaines.bsky.social , AJC EIC (1st Black editor in paper’s 157-year history) Leroy Chapman + @idabwellssociety.bsky.social ED, Dr. Robbie Morganfield. More to come in Fortify.
October 2, 2025 at 11:39 PM
This week I moderated a “Crisis in Journalism” panel at Morehouse College. Our panelists were NABJ National President, @errinhaines.bsky.social , AJC EIC (1st Black editor in paper’s 157-year history) Leroy Chapman + @idabwellssociety.bsky.social ED, Dr. Robbie Morganfield. More to come in Fortify.
Rapid fire with @erniesuggs.bsky.social @jewelwickershow.bsky.social @mikejordanatl.bsky.social for #morehousejournalismweek
October 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
“Black culture that doesn’t stop at the Brown paper bag test or fingerprint.” UATL Sr. Editor @mikejordanatl.bsky.social defining the UATL brand as one that allows us to explore fullness of the Black experience sans racist tropes. #morehousejournalismweek
October 2, 2025 at 4:34 PM
“Black culture that doesn’t stop at the Brown paper bag test or fingerprint.” UATL Sr. Editor @mikejordanatl.bsky.social defining the UATL brand as one that allows us to explore fullness of the Black experience sans racist tropes. #morehousejournalismweek
Prof. Kim Ford talking about the power of (responsibly) creating your own media. #morehousejournalismweek
September 30, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Prof. Kim Ford talking about the power of (responsibly) creating your own media. #morehousejournalismweek
Ronda Racha Penrice talking the importance of listening during interviews/not walking through the door with your idea of what the story is versus where the story lands. Listen to allow the story to take shape. #morehousejournalismweek
September 30, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Ronda Racha Penrice talking the importance of listening during interviews/not walking through the door with your idea of what the story is versus where the story lands. Listen to allow the story to take shape. #morehousejournalismweek
“Your gut is one of your most important tools.” -Janee Bolden on reporting instincts that guide us to fuller stories/better context and better sourced material. #morehousejournalismweek
September 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
“Your gut is one of your most important tools.” -Janee Bolden on reporting instincts that guide us to fuller stories/better context and better sourced material. #morehousejournalismweek
“The checks are bigger, but their voices are stifled.” -A.R.Shaw on Black journalists in MSM outlets lacking diversity in editorial ranks. #morehousejournalismweek
September 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
“The checks are bigger, but their voices are stifled.” -A.R.Shaw on Black journalists in MSM outlets lacking diversity in editorial ranks. #morehousejournalismweek
Morehouse Journalism Week kicks off this evening. Here’s the schedule and lineup. I’ll moderate Tuesday’s “Journalism in Crisis” with the AJC EIC, NABJ national president and ED of the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting.
September 29, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Morehouse Journalism Week kicks off this evening. Here’s the schedule and lineup. I’ll moderate Tuesday’s “Journalism in Crisis” with the AJC EIC, NABJ national president and ED of the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting.
An absolute pleasure to join @asalh as an emcee for Friday’s Boots on the Ground reception. There’s power when we’re in community. 🖤✨#asalh
September 27, 2025 at 8:09 PM
An absolute pleasure to join @asalh as an emcee for Friday’s Boots on the Ground reception. There’s power when we’re in community. 🖤✨#asalh
My husband and I engaged in archive and memory work for my Pi Alpha Omega (AKA) chapter’s 40th anniversary. This was a film about civil rights.To watch it on a theater screen at Spelman College + listen to an audience laugh, cry, and hum certified Negro spirituals was THE MOST REWARDING moment.
September 21, 2025 at 11:31 PM
My husband and I engaged in archive and memory work for my Pi Alpha Omega (AKA) chapter’s 40th anniversary. This was a film about civil rights.To watch it on a theater screen at Spelman College + listen to an audience laugh, cry, and hum certified Negro spirituals was THE MOST REWARDING moment.
My husband and I have been busy archiving and conducting memory work. On Sunday, our short film, Through the Years, will premiere at Spelman College . This is a story about the visionaries who chartered my Pi Alpha Omega chapter of Alpha Kappa Sorority, Inc . This is a short about civil rights.
September 19, 2025 at 1:04 PM
My husband and I have been busy archiving and conducting memory work. On Sunday, our short film, Through the Years, will premiere at Spelman College . This is a story about the visionaries who chartered my Pi Alpha Omega chapter of Alpha Kappa Sorority, Inc . This is a short about civil rights.
I am grateful for the opportunity to step into a Visiting Assistant Professor role at Morehouse College , an institution that’s allowed me to pour into HBCU students during a fragile and harrowing period in our nation’s history.
August 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I am grateful for the opportunity to step into a Visiting Assistant Professor role at Morehouse College , an institution that’s allowed me to pour into HBCU students during a fragile and harrowing period in our nation’s history.
Been monitoring the number of journalists killed in Gaza since ‘23, following CPJ’s guidance on assistance,support. Thx to the local journalists who have organized a 2nd vigil to remember brave media workers who have lived, died to document what is before us.History is not recorded w/o journalists.
August 15, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Been monitoring the number of journalists killed in Gaza since ‘23, following CPJ’s guidance on assistance,support. Thx to the local journalists who have organized a 2nd vigil to remember brave media workers who have lived, died to document what is before us.History is not recorded w/o journalists.
Moderated a Martha’s Vineyard Black Book Festival panel re: public education/attacks/resolve/history with authors John B. King (former U.S. Education Secretary) and Emory professor, Dr. Karida Brown. #mvbff
August 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Moderated a Martha’s Vineyard Black Book Festival panel re: public education/attacks/resolve/history with authors John B. King (former U.S. Education Secretary) and Emory professor, Dr. Karida Brown. #mvbff
Joined Witherspoon Law, @tiffanydcross.bsky.social
& @erniesuggs.bsky.social to talk covering civil cases + impact on our communities.
Hopefully journalists walked away w some FFT re:language in our reporting,enterprising deeper stories, developing stronger sources,better story framing . #nabj25
& @erniesuggs.bsky.social to talk covering civil cases + impact on our communities.
Hopefully journalists walked away w some FFT re:language in our reporting,enterprising deeper stories, developing stronger sources,better story framing . #nabj25
August 8, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Joined Witherspoon Law, @tiffanydcross.bsky.social
& @erniesuggs.bsky.social to talk covering civil cases + impact on our communities.
Hopefully journalists walked away w some FFT re:language in our reporting,enterprising deeper stories, developing stronger sources,better story framing . #nabj25
& @erniesuggs.bsky.social to talk covering civil cases + impact on our communities.
Hopefully journalists walked away w some FFT re:language in our reporting,enterprising deeper stories, developing stronger sources,better story framing . #nabj25
Took my daughters to their FIRST concert and to see the same artist I saw for my first concert in high school-Beyonce. She’s timeless. Their joy was priceless. Being with one of my best friends from college was priceless. Everyone was a vibe. The message is for a time such as this. ✨
July 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Took my daughters to their FIRST concert and to see the same artist I saw for my first concert in high school-Beyonce. She’s timeless. Their joy was priceless. Being with one of my best friends from college was priceless. Everyone was a vibe. The message is for a time such as this. ✨
A time was had tonight. #CharlyPalmerat65
June 29, 2025 at 2:44 AM
A time was had tonight. #CharlyPalmerat65
Fortify had a really good Sunday morning readership. If you’re interested in combatting erasure, the pages of the historic press, travel and centering Black storytellers, join our community and subscribe for a read or listen. I’m glad you’re here: open.substack.com/pub/nicolefc...
June 22, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Fortify had a really good Sunday morning readership. If you’re interested in combatting erasure, the pages of the historic press, travel and centering Black storytellers, join our community and subscribe for a read or listen. I’m glad you’re here: open.substack.com/pub/nicolefc...