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Delta husband. Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize. Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and finalist, Los Angeles Times Book Award.

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Joined April 2014
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Bear in mind that immigrants often adopt anti-Blackness as part of the “Americanizing” process and the quest to become white people in good standing.
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Laws that attack Black studies are related to laws that once made it illegal to teach African Americans to read. Prof. Robin D. G. Kelley throws down.
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How free speech works: You are free to make racist or antisemitic statements as you choose. Your corporate sponsors are free to cut you loose - because you are hazard to the brand.
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2:38 P.M. The Harvard Club - Manhattan
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To whom it may concern: Being Black in white journalism is about to get more difficult.
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King Charles used tax breaks and off-shore dealings to grow very rich - as his people grew poorer and flocked to food banks - The New York Times
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This is why
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A timely reminder: the corporation will never love you back.
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When Frederick Douglass died - 1895 - The New York Times attributed has “superior intelligence” and “remarkable energy” to his “white blood.”
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Saturday Times front page
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“Vote for me or they will destroy democracy” means nothing to the segment of the population that is excluded from democracy right now.
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Women look after everyone endlessly— “They have to be like that because no one else will fucking do it.”A revealing @NewYorker profile of the magnificent Emma Thompson. via
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The “British Empire Building”’at Rockefeller Center. Note the faces of cotton, sugar & tobacco.
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Note to future buyers of companies: Do not start out by threatening the customers.
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The medics called to the scene loitered for 16 minutes before helping the heavily injured Tyre Nichols.
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I got grief for writing these @nytopinion words on the eve of the 2016 election - but here we are.
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A visit to the Post Office
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Note to air travelers: Presume that your flight will include coughing, hacking, Covid-infected people who travel unmasked.
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Racism, anti-semitism and misogyny still have broad constituencies in these United States. That is where the discussion should begin.
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Read this famous Paris Review piece - in which writers talk about being edited by the great Robert Gottlieb, who died today at age 92 (No paywall)
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@jdesmondharris I am sure you know this. But you have indeed hit on something: How the advent of social media (combined with online publications) blackened a very, very white public "discourse." A significant portion of anti-Twitterism originates in this fact.
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A white supremacist president named military bases for traitors who had waged war on the U.S. in the name of slavery. It took the televised lynching of a Black man for Congress to finally undo that act. My essay here:
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Good morning, NYC
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@jonathanchait This needs refinement - and less hyperbole - to be taken seriously
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The "liberal" British Empire was very good at hiding its use of systemic violence and state-sponsored terrorism. Now might be the time to pick up that story.
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How Black is American cooking: the soft-spoken Stephen Satterfield - host of the hit ⁦ @netflix ⁩ series “High on the Hog” - is back with a lot more to say.
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The moralists are always the ones to watch
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Military indoctrination at school: an ⁦ @nytimes ⁩ investigation shows students herded into cadet classes - with textbooks that falsify history.
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George Washington Bridge earlier today
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People who cast themselves as martyrs to “censorship” often believe wrongly - and absurdly - that free speech equals the right to say anything one chooses without consequence.
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Losing your parents is personally cataclysmic - however old you are
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Coming in December - from ⁦⁦ @lesliemalex ⁩ and ⁦ @IllinoisPress
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What they are saying: “We will take the country by force of arms if you refuse to stand aside and let us steal it.”
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"Serena has taught me so much ...": Venus Williams on history, beauty - and learning from the greatest.
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The British empire was bloodier than most people know.
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Chickens come home to roost
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Who is afraid of African American studies?
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The cost of talking shit: $672 billion in market value
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A celebrated classic of history and sociology - but, in too many states today, teachers would be fired for assigning it.
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Sunset over 44th St - Manhattan
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Note to those in toxic workplaces: Get out; you can never recover the time you are losing.
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Note to haters: The combat veteran was “watching a drag show with his family”
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@agordonreed @jbouie Yes. They preferred the implicit view that slavery was the natural condition of the Negro.
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Always call lies by their rightful names
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It’s all noise - until you make the entire data set public.
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Rockefeller Center: Slavery in plain sight - 7:26 A.M.
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Barbados may seek reparations from a member of Parliament whose family pioneered slavery in the blood-drenched age of sugar plantations.
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Note to the press: the correct term is “lie”
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Ordinary British citizens pay a 40% inheritance tax; but Charles will inherit from the Queen tax free
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A guy borrows billions to buy a company whose product he does not understand.
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There is an essay to be written on the profligate use of “alleged” in journalism.
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It is important to call lying by its rightful name
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Note to NYC: the virus that is not Covid and not the Flu is an actual bear. Keep the medicine cabinet stocked with the cold/flu basics.
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@jonathanchait Set all that aside
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People warned that this would happen, did they not?
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Twitter Blue erased a few billion in market cap for Lockheed Martin
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A hero named "Black Death": By naming a military base for William Henry Johnson, the U.S. would break at last with the cult of the Confederacy. My latest from @nytopinion
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Always call lies by their rightful names
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They knew that fielding fake electors was treasonous - emails show:
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Documenting American apartheid: The lost photographs of Ernest Cole are returned to us at exactly the right time, writes Vann Newkirk II of the ⁦ @TheAtlantic
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(Rainy) Saturday Backyard
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White evangelicals would sell their souls to Satan to elect Walker, writes the always candid ⁦ @AntheaButler
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Struggling Immigrants got on the plane after being told of “three months free rent”; this should constituted a criminal act.
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The criminalization of the womb: the brilliant legal scholar⁦⁩ Dorothy Roberts told us this was coming
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How the “respectable” white South stood by in indifference as four little Black girls were slaughtered: the scalding truth of Gene Patterson’s ‘63 column on the bombing is relevant today.
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@jelani9 Headline writing requires deliberation - especially in moments such as this.
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It was never about “economic anxiety”: White supremacy has been a consistent feature of American life - in times plenty and times of distress.
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A president “poured gasoline on a fire”
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A few, brief years back, gatekeepers in the commentariat were scolding people for describing the unfolding political scene in terms that included “fascist.” Remember that?
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How Blackness is erased: In Iowa, a pioneering former Federal prosecutor is left out of history - and rents a billboard to set the record straight. via ⁦ @nytimes
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May our nation survive the coming year
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A timely reminder: my 2021 essay on how the white press has historically accommodated racism - and racists - in the interest of making money.
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Federal appeals court upholds “steeped in racism” Jim Crow law that was intended to disenfranchise Black people.
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Financial Times, front page
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Bleeding The Black Belt for profit: an @newyorker and ⁦⁦⁦ @propublica ⁩ investigation shows how fraudulent Hospice care companies ravage the Black rural South.
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History is the only education; everything else is just training.
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Twitter is decomposing as we speak, isn’t it
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“I hate being famous….I am lonely and living in constant uncertainty”: A new book on the last days of the hugely popular food show star Anthony Bourdain - The New York Times
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Coming to a business school case study near you: How to destroy a globally popular brand in ten months.
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