Cassie Spodak
@CassieSpodak
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CNN Producer / Covering politics, writing, producing, shooting and editing
Joined February 2011
New video: @eliehonig breaks down what to watch for in the next January 6 hearing on Wednesday, and what the committee still hasn't uncovered. Produced by @MackenzieHappe using an actual *puzzle* to help you understand the missing pieces...
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Honored that the @CNN Digital won a Gracie Award @AllWomeninMedia for our story on the incredible courage of Claudette Colvin. Thank you to the whole team @CassieSpodak @jjsimonCNN @DebBrunswickCNN @chodger @magsCNN and Janelle Gonzalez. The story:
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"We never really believed that our neighbor could just come and just grab our land and tell us what to do" Watch this woman's heartbreaking interview about the new reality she woke up to this morning https://t.co/qWM4ZPVohO
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My team looked at old newspaper articles for over 50 of events like Tulsa and talked to a dozen historians to understand how this violence could have happened so often. They involved Black, Mexican and Chinese people and the reasons are complex and yet simple to understand:
A century ago, a White mob descended on a prosperous Black enclave in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and proceeded to burn, loot and kill until scores were dead and 35 city blocks were destroyed. History shows the massacre wasn't an isolated event in America.
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The latest History Refocused episode: The Kerner Commission released a report on racial inequality that shook America in 1968, but then largely faded into history. We spoke to the only remaining survivor about why
More than 50 years before George Floyd's death, lawmakers predicted a growing racial divide. Little changed. https://t.co/bPAo7TqH0P
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Can a formula be racist? See my video piece with @nataliavosipova + Jessi Esparza & a great -- and important -- read by @CassieSpodak and @jacquesmithCNN
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#racecorrection #raceinmedicine #raceinhealthcare
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Race correction in medicine is the use of a patient’s race in a scientific equation that can influence how they are treated. Race correction in medicine has pitted medical students against their...
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Black or 'Other'? Doctors may be relying on race to make decisions about your health -- the newest episode of our History Refocused series is out, with a look at how medical myths that are hundreds of years old are still embedded in medicine today
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Race correction in medicine is the use of a patient’s race in a scientific equation that can influence how they are treated. Race correction in medicine has pitted medical students against their...
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Two big factors are making things worse at the border. But they're not getting much attention https://t.co/bduHJkCcZ9
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Powerful, back-to-back hurricanes in November exacted a heavy toll on a region already suffering from the economic devastation of the pandemic. That’s making the situation unfolding now at the...
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Before the Covid shutdown, CNN went inside schools to see how "lockdown drills" for school shootings work, up close. High school students, to third graders... watch and read this powerful report
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School shootings and lockdown drills. One has prompted the widespread practice of the other, even though mass school shootings are rare. See firsthand what these kids go through and how it makes them...
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In my 18 years of schooling, I barely studied the period between the Civil War and Jim Crow, so to dive in to this story of a slave who became our first Black Lt. Governor for CNN was a great gift. With @SuzanneMalveaux @nweldon
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Many called the Capitol riots unprecedented. But they’re an eerie repeat of the mob violence the US saw after the Civil War https://t.co/H1fynuID2j
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This is the first piece in our series called "History Refocused," it looks at Colvin's amazing story, but also what you might not know about Rosa Parks and many other women in the civil rights movement
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Claudette Colvin did a revolutionary act nearly 10 months before Rosa Parks.
At 15 years old, Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat nine months before the now-historic Rosa Parks moment. But like many others, her story was excluded from history. https://t.co/VEYnh060SP
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A South Carolina mom explains how she went down the QAnon rabbithole through TikTok.... and how she got out. She idolized Trump, she says, and if he had spoken out against QAnon she would have left it sooner. Reporting w/@richanaik @zachwasss
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When CNN did a call-out after the election @McKennaEwen found this powerful story about what Biden’s climate policy could mean for one town in Wyoming that has provided much of America’s energy, and he beautifully tells it with @jdsutter
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Amanda Gorman, the nation's first-ever youth poet laureate, called for Americans to "leave behind a country better than the one we were left" and unify together as she spoke at President Joe Biden's inauguration. https://t.co/cqB4pZpaAv
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From Reagan's colorful stationary to Obama's lengthy prose, presidents past have long penned letters of encouragement and advice to the men who've succeeded them. Take a look at some of those letters:
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From Reagan’s colorful stationary to Obama’s lengthy prose, Presidents past have long penned letters of encouragement and advice to the men who’ve succeeded them.
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Joe Biden's inauguration will look different because: ▪︎ President Trump won't attend the ceremony ▪︎ The pandemic has altered inauguration planning ▪︎ There will be heightened security after the deadly riot at the Capitol earlier this month
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Pictures of the US Capitol riot tell part of the story of the beliefs of some of those who chose to show up on that day -- from passionate and peaceful Trump supporters to extremists who showed their hate with their symbols as well as their actions.
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Flags, signs and symbols of racist, white supremacist and extremist groups were displayed along with Trump 2020 banners and American flags at Wednesday’s riot at the US Capitol. We spoke to an expert...
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How these Pro-Trump protestors in DC felt about the rioters who stormed the Capitol today: “As American patriots we had to do what we can to take back this country” - from @vlfleischer @jmoorheadcnn & @donie
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The Electoral College process comes to a grand finale as the presidential votes of all 50 states and the District of Columbia are counted during a joint session of Congress. Follow CNN's tracking of the congressional action in real time
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Leader McConnell condemns GOP election challenge: "We're debating a step that has never been taken in American history: whether Congress should overrule the voters and overturn a presidential election. I've served 36 years … This will be the most important vote I've ever cast"
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