B.A. Parker
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(she/her) I make stories @NPRCodeSwitch ; formerly @thecut , @NancyPodcast , @heavyweight , @NPRinvisibilia & @ThisAmerLife
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Hi. For the past few years, I’ve been recording my phone calls with my Dad and my Grams. And making this story for
@NPRinvisibilia
helped me gain some perspective on love and family and memory. Anyways, take a listen if you’re into that sorta thing.
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I still can’t get over each main character getting their own emotional support woman of color
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Katharine Hepburn only attended the Oscars once. In 1974, she presented an award, while purposefully wearing her clogs & gardening clothes from home. Parts of her clothes had to be spray-painted black backstage to hide dirt stains from working in her garden before the show.
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It took 50 years for the Oscars to finally apologize to her this year for the disrespect she endured and now she’s passed on. She was unwavering in her calls for empathy in representation, something that wasn’t often even given to her, and will be awfully missed.
Sacheen Littlefeather, Native American civil rights activist who famously declined Marlon Brando’s 1973 Best Actor Academy Award, dies at 75.
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But that’s the point. They’re using their privilege. Jane Fonda talks about this extensively. It’s why she was gladly arrested 5 TIMES during her Fire Drill Fridays. To be wealthy (& largely white) in the US means an arrest is just a ding on their record. So they take the heat.
On the students arrested at Columbia: “A Post deep-dive into the backgrounds of the protesters shows many list multimillion-dollar mansions as their home addresses, according to arrest records, and come from wealthy and powerful families.”
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I think about seeing her piece at the Whitney regularly. She was a singular voice.
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When people say “we used to be a proper country,” they mean this.
soulja boy teaching natalie portman how to do the 'crank that', 2007
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To understand how exhausting this stat is, Daughters of the Dust came out exactly 30 years ago and it was the first feature film directed by an African-American woman distributed theatrically in the U.S. While proud, shit is bleak out here.
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Randall remains the favorite.
Milo Ventimiglia at Niles Fitch’s graduation ceremony.
The pair played father and son in ‘THIS IS US.’
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I didn’t mean for this to get a lot of traction. But in any case, support your local libraries & movie theaters. When I was a kid, they both saved my life.
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I’m not joking when I say this is one of the most important film scenes of the past decade
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So my mom had to go to a funeral this morning, when someone shouted “Biden won.” Everyone checked their phones, and the church began to sing “It Is Well With My Soul.” Black baptists really know how to build on a moment.
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We’re not gonna talk about vocal fry in 2022. That’s over. That’s done with. It’s the voice we’ve got. To lower it for people who don’t wanna hear it anyway is a waste of everyone’s time.
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@bmluse
Both approaches are satisfying at different times. But it seems like yelling at him ain’t clicking, because his girl be yelling at him all the time.
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Just a warning, Glass Onion is not a film to watch with moms. They will ask you what’s happening every five minutes.
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To dilute the history of Black churches as if they aren’t the epicenter of civil rights organizing is more than a little harmful. It’s downright disingenuous. And if young folk are protesting in a church as a call to action, then maybe they should be heard instead of “collected.”
Mother Emanuel AME is hallowed ground in the AME church community and in Charleston especially. The shock of people in the crowd at protesters yelling out while President Biden was speaking from the pulpit cannot be overstated. I too couldn't believe it.
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Please note: if you see me in the street wearing wool socks and Birkenstocks, I’m just walking to the bodega, which is an emotional extension of my apartment. Therefore a safe space for me to look ridiculous in this weather.
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I’m here for Challengers and Past Lives being the inverse of Her and Lost in Translation. Just partners working their stuff out through adult conversation and throuples.
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Ok, but then Justine Triet potentially winning the best original screenplay Oscar for Anatomy of a Fall, a script she wrote partially in response to how Scarlett Johansson was written in Marriage Story, which was also ScarJo as a cipher for a filmmaker’s divorce?? God tier.
Sofia Coppola and Spike Jonze both winning the best original screenplay Oscar for the respective movies they made about each other/their marriage which both star Scarlett Johansson is the failmarriage of all time
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For musicals, I think we take for granted director/choreographers. Fosse, Condon, Kelly, Shankman, Fletcher, Ortega. They really do make a difference. Ortega musicals are fun as hell.
the cast of high school musical were dancing for their lives here
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When I was 6, in a writing class, a white girl wrote a story where she murdered me and called it “Snow Black.” Pretty sure she needed a lesson before then.
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A simple google search would’ve told him it’s not even an original idea. And that it’s been frowned upon since. But like… that would require sincere engagement with the people he’s trying to empathize with.
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Respectfully, Zack got him
He fired 33 shots.
But less than 30 hours later, thanks to the NYPD, federal and state partners, first responders and every day New Yorkers, we got him.
We brought the Sunset Park subway shooter to justice.
Keeping our city safe is at the heart of our administration. Always.
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“As a condition of granting clemency, Stitt ordered that Jones shall never be eligible to apply for or be considered for a commutation, pardon, or parole for the rest of his life.”
His life is spared but this ain't living.
Oklahoma Gov. Stitt reduces Julius Jones’ sentence to life in prison without parole.
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This is terrifying. Should be noted that this subway station is also a police hub, which is reiterated every time I’m on the train. And yet…
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Maybe if y’all had a reporter in the courtroom, some questions could’ve been asked. Where were y’all?
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You don’t understand, Todd Field is back. Cameron Diaz is coming out of retirement. Julia Roberts and George Clooney made a romcom. Do you know how bleak it must be that all of these people knew we were starving and came back as a treat?
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Fiona Apple also tells stories like this. Knowing your privilege will protect you in a lot of cases with authority. They become the shield for marginalized folks that they’re in community with. This is a good thing!
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Also, a petty critique besides the alleged Blackface… if the reporter is Canadian-American, wouldn’t the more novel idea be to explore racism in Canada? A place that’s known for the juxtaposition of its niceness with its bigotry and a PM caught in brownface?
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@carriesnotscary
Seeing it in NYC that year was wild. Because I remember the gasp people made in the theater at the ending and a woman yelling “Why would they do that?!”
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@WrittenByHanna
Corny love with a man who unironically got “Feminist” tatted on his stomach, doesn’t sound bad right now tho.
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I’m ready to get stressed out about sandwiches again
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The fact that this photographer does this every year and gets away with it as art is absolutely sending me.
Steven Yeun photographed by Juergen Teller for W Magazine
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Mentorships and fellowships are great and all. But are y’all paying them a living wage, and at the end of them are y’all actually HIRING these POCs?
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The one time I saw Usher attempt activism was when he wore a shirt that said “Silence is Consent” to promote speaking out against social injustice not realizing it also seemed to promote sexual assault. So that’s exactly how well I think this show is gonna go.
Usher, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, and Julianne Hough will host competition series ‘The Activist’.
Activists go head-to-head in challenges to promote their causes, with their success measured via online engagement, social metrics, and hosts’ input.
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Someone find that tweet that’s like “They’ll never name a street after Victor Newman, because you never cross him.”
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Took my mom to see Knives Out this weekend. She had no context for who Chris Evans is and for the rest of the film whispered to me, “Oh my god that man is beautiful. He should be in Hallmark Christmas movies.” So, that’s a review from the 60-something black lady delegation.
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KGB is the standard. And for me IS NPR. As a Black storyteller still fairly new in this industry, she has been my guiding light, and this news is heartbreaking. We love you, Karen. And Code Switch loves you.
It was a good run—21years—but it’s just about done. Tough economic realities meant NPR had to let go of some 100 employees. I was among that number. I am sad that I won’t be working with some of the fabulous people who make NPR. But I am grateful to have work that meant so much.
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Of all the emotional exhaustion in last night’s Succession, the saddest part was knowing Kendall lives in Hudson Yards. Every choice he makes for himself is a mistake.
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A book uncovering racism in the US is like uncovering a Mountie on a horse.
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The thing I've always found about award season is there is a longstanding tradition of advertently & inadvertantly humbling black women. You watch enough of these throughout your life, you can see it. And gosh, have I watched a lot of award shows in my short time on this earth 1/
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We out here!!!
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Just thinking about this today for absolutely no reason at all.
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You mean the guy named as a groomer in a Hollywood child sex abuse ring in the documentary An Open Secret? That Brock Pierce? Aka the kid from First Kid?
Because 2020 continues to be, well, 2020, the kid from Disney's 1996 film, First Kid, is running for president.
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With all of this discussion about black ppl in media, I feel like there is something that should be said about “happen to be” stories & how few there are. Especially in podcasting. Stories about marginalized ppl should not solely be about their marginalization. 1/
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Thank you to the lady in the NPR elevator for assuming I was performing at the Tiny Desk today because I was carrying a banjo. That was the ego boost I needed.
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White and non-black women as the protagonists of hip hop dance films has given me a complex for 20 years.
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The Joaquin Phoenix film already feels like a fantasy because it shows a radio producer owning a house. 😔
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The sheer confidence 1998 J. Lo had coming for all these girls’ necks is lowkey aspirational
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Hi! Today is my final episode with the Cut. And for my magnum opus, I wander around the Lower East Side looking for himbos.
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We love an auntie who doesn’t fully understand but is still invested.
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An NYT article where Jane Fonda discusses the privileges of her getting arrested.
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Thank you so much!! Honestly, the coolest thing.
Congratulations to the masterminds behind "Code Switch" by
@NPR
for winning the Ambie for Best Scriptwriting, Non-Fiction! 📝💡 Their skillful weaving of words and insightful narratives has kept us hooked episode after episode.
#TheAmbies
@aparkusfarce
@NPRCodeSwitch
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If DaBaby and Roddy Ricch ain’t scissoring atop a giant Air Jordan with an entire dance revue, then don’t waste my time!
Female rappers really be putting on a show. And male rappers really just... be there. Like what are these men bringing to the table?
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Fun fact a sound engineer told me once: we sound different in our heads than in a recording, because inside we hear vibrations from our skull. Which is why inside I think I have a fairly deep voice, but then I hear a recording and realize I sound like an angry southern baby. 🤷🏾♀️
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I’m just happy people are reading. We’re not gonna act like young women discovering Donna Tartt and Jeffrey Eugenides is a bad thing.
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Not to be all “What to the slave is the 4th of July?” on here, but I did a story about what kind of descendant I wanna be. It’s been airing on the radio this holiday. So listen if you’re into that sorta thing. 💙
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Me, first learning to cut audio and not getting the answer that I wanted.
I can't stop listening to this clip of Owen Wilson talking about
#Loki
that sounds like every word has been taken from a different sentence.
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Hi! Today I intro my first ep as co-host of
@NPRCodeSwitch
and it’s a fascinating story by
@TracieHunte
with
@WNYCStudios
about belonging and wanting to be a part of a tribe that may not want you. Listen!
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In honor of 50 years of NPR, here’s the quote I’d kept at my Invisibilia desk to remind me that my family didn’t know what I do for a living.🎉
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I’ve stayed inside for 4 months, still took an antibodies and COVID tests for safe measure, and stayed inside even more after that even with a neg status. All so I can see my 97 year old grandmother today. The least y’all could do is wear a mask while walking down the block.
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So I’m the first act on this week’s
@ThisAmerLife
. I talk about the church that I go to, and how much I love it.
...There’s just one thing that kinda bugs me.
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I feel so fortunate that I’ve gotten to work on such a beautiful show where I get to FEEL the diversity of majority POC meetings, where our stories are intentional & empathetic. Where we’d ask “why so many white pitches? Let’s fix that.” And DID! An absolute dream.
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What the Guardian had to say in 2019 on Fonda’s arrests about being wealthy and white and using that privilege to get arrested.
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The only good thing about social media is once in a while, you’ll scroll to a post that says “Reminder to unclench your jaw and relax your forehead.” And then you’re like “Damn, I DO need to unclench my jaw and relax my forehead.” And then you do it and feel great. That’s it.
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White people learning in real time that Central Park was built over a community of freed slaves is sending me. Wait til you learn about Wall Street.
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Not to be all “the state of journalism” in the midst of fun, but Katt is asking real questions of Sharpe about his interviewing style that’s actually a problem when non-journos have wide interview platforms. Which is the lack of pushback and deeming everything true being said. 🤷🏾♀️
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Hi. I did a story about the documentary "Shakedown" & the lovely ladies who found a place they could call home every Friday night at an underground Black lesbian stripclub in LA. during the '90s-'00s. So proud that I got to do this for
@NancyPodcast
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Had one from Fort Worth to Chicago. It was 26 hours and cost over $1k. To get another one of these rooms for the 2nd leg of the trip (Chi to NYC) cost $1,500. So for 23 hours I slept in a chair instead. Trains across the US: longer, more expensive, less convenient than flights.
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I’m slightly drunk, DJing my mom’s birthday zoom, with 30 sixtysomethings cousins shouting over each other. And it’s honestly the nicest thing that’s happened in a while.
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Most assuredly, there is a version of this film that could’ve come out just five years before and that cashier would’ve been the butt of the joke. Like, when the A*at*w ensemble brand was strong.
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The year Nia was born (1989) Euzhan Palcy became the first Black woman director of a film produced by a major Hollywood studio with “A Dry White Season.” And became the first Black filmmaker to direct an actor to an Oscar nom. This is the system Black women are working in.
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Nia was a one year old when that happened. All of this is within her lifetime, and that’s ridiculous.
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Stoked that I get to work with this lady and that I get Ace Frehley stuck in my head all day.
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The lack of reputable Black news outlets covering this situation as a proper news item was alarming and frankly disheartening.
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I can pinpoint every part of my career that was guided by the help of POC who saw I needed help or gave me a job or put me in touch w someone. So like mentorships are swell but the onus inadvertently falls on the employees of color who are watching peers fall through the cracks.
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As a person riddled w. anxiety, I always think I’m screwing up. But this week- I started a new radio job, finished writing an on-air story for another job, found a place to live, and had the biggest story of my career rerun this weekend. So at least for this week I’m doing okay.
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I’m sorry… WHAT??!!!!
Scoop: Spotify is canceling two critically acclaimed podcasts --
@heavyweight
and Stolen. Stolen won a Pulitzer Prize and Peabody Award for its most recent season while Heavyweight just appeared today on the
@nytimes
's best podcasts of the year list
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This has been a kickass year career-wise. I've gotten actual stories on the air for the world to hear, and work with awesome folks. And I'm super excited that I get to continue that into the new year. So I'll be heading to D.C. for a bit, and producing for NPR's Invisibilia.
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A friend got me the 6-month MoviePass for Xmas that year. I had no job and an AMC Stubs card too, and had figured out how many movies I could see in a week to also get reward points so that I could get food at concessions. I saw 67 movies in theaters to earn chicken tenders.
The year is 2017, you just paid $9.99 for a month of unlimited movies. You watch the LEGO Batman Movie 3 days in a row. You have no idea how any of this is sustainable, but you don’t question it.
Life is good.
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Immediately thought about the doc “It Might Get Loud” and Jack making Jimmy Page and The Edge listen to Son House’s Grinnin’ In Your Face, which is played briefly on Cowboy Carter. And how shockingly a lot of the Black country music education in my youth came from Jack White.
Jack White thanks Beyoncé via Instagram for her flowers and note:
“Much love and respect to you Madam… nobody sings like you.”
#actii
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They really had an Asian man and a Black woman show up at 4am to read all those white dude names. The nerve. The gall. The audacity.
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@imbobswaget
She goes to another guy’s apartment and his copy if All About Love is under a fully used ashtray. Symbolic if you ask me.
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This is my Roman Empire. I think about this picture regularly. This man was an NFL wide receiver with a Masters in Engineering who became an astronaut going on two space missions. Leland D. Melvin was out here living multiple childhood dreams in this photo alone.
Pictured above is Astronaut Leland D. Melvin's official NASA portrait.
When NASA astronaut Leland Melvin was assigned to a space shuttle mission in 2008, he was told he could bring his family for the official photo shoot wearing the famous orange "pumpkin suit." They didn't…
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@RegardingJosh
If he wants to thank the straight white men uplifting him after years of them making gay panic comedies until they realized that wasn’t cool anymore then just say that.
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