Nick Tabor
@tabor_reporter
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Freelance journalist + author
New York, NY
Joined September 2011
My latest story--for @newrepublic.
States can do far more than simply “stand up to Trump.” Collectively, they have the power to achieve more on climate than the federal government has done under any single president, whether Republican or Democratic. From @tabor_reporter.
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Not long ago, I read that the TVA—the largest publicly owned utility in the US—was making a big investment in fossil fuels, going against the Biden admin’s climate targets. I wanted to know how that was possible, so I investigated for the @washingtonpost.
washingtonpost.com
The Tennessee Valley Authority is coming under fire from energy experts and environmentalists for building gas plants instead of renewables.
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In my latest story, for @newrepublic, I probed into what could end up being a huge misallocation of funds in a high-stakes federal program: Biden's initiative to replace lead pipes used for drinking water.
newrepublic.com
Florida is slated to receive more federal funds for lead replacement than almost any other state. But experts say it doesn’t actually have many lead pipes.
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As the suburbs have diversified over the last few decades, they’ve also become much poorer. In this @commonwealmag essay I dug into what’s going on there.
commonwealmagazine.org
Why haven’t the newcomers to suburbia, especially families of color, experienced the affluence that previous generations found there?
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I worked on The Jinx Part II as an investigative researcher. can't wait for everyone to see it--there will be some wild revelations.
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as lawsuits are mounting against the makers of Roundup, the pesticides industry has started pushing legislation that would shield it from litigation in a few key states. my reporting for @newrepublic.
newrepublic.com
High-profile lawsuits have accused pesticides of causing cancer and Parkinson’s. But three states are now considering bills that would prevent these lawsuits.
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my latest piece: reporting for the @GuardianUS on why some nonprofits have turned down money from the EPA. also gets at why progress on EJ is generally so slow. with input from @CultivandoCO @350Colorado, and @weact4ej.
theguardian.com
Community organizations say grants coming from the government have too many requirements to be truly accessible
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when I was reporting for NYMag’s recent power issue, I kept hearing that the plays @stonybrooku was making were the biggest untold story in NY higher ed. I spun it into a separate piece for the @nytimes/@NYTMetro. capping off a good year!.
nytimes.com
Stony Brook University, one of two state schools designated as flagships, has aggressively fund-raised and recruited students.
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my latest story: a narrative piece in @grist about what happened after seven funeral homes in Louisiana were evacuated for #HurricaneIda.
For Louisiana nursing home residents warehoused during Hurricane Ida, the storm was only the start of a deadly nightmare.
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Tune into American Slavery, Today with authors @KidadaEWilliams, @rachelswarns, and @tabor_reporter. Moderated by Stephanie McCurry.
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RT @commonwealmag: "Her love of Christ; her critiques of capitalism, racism, sexism, and ableism; and her work as an activist—all of them,….
commonwealmagazine.org
Helen Keller's public image is benignly inspiring. A new book digs into her identity as a radical Leftist whose politics were rooted in her faith.
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RT @AlecMacGillis: Late to this v good @tabor_reporter profile of the profane Teamsters chief, as a possible UPS strike and push to unioniz….
washingtonpost.com
Teamsters head Sean O'Brien has big plans to stop your UPS deliveries in August. It’s a dress rehearsal for his not-so-secret dream to take on Amazon.
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thanks to @amylauracahn and @HarlemGirl59 for their input, and to the others who helped me with background--especially the great @CathFlowers and @DrBobBullard.
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also out today, for #juneteenth: a piece I wrote on #environmentaljustice and the Biden administration, centered on #LowndesCounty.
nytimes.com
The county is hardly the only place in America plagued with sanitation problems.
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out today: my profile of Sean O'Brien (@TeamsterSOB), president of the @Teamsters, in the @washingtonpost.
washingtonpost.com
Teamsters head Sean O'Brien has big plans to stop your UPS deliveries in August. It’s a dress rehearsal for his not-so-secret dream to take on Amazon.
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RT @LiteratiBkstore: Tonight! @tabor_reporter presents Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created and talks to @UMS….
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wrote a piece on Albert Murray and his relationship with Africatown, where he grew up--in collab with @kemjacks, for @parisreview. proud of this one.
theparisreview.org
April 24, 2023 – “The novels also form part of a second canon: the growing body of literature on Murray’s neighborhood, a place of historical significance in its own right. That neighborhood is known...
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Historic Black towns like Eatonville, Fla. and Africatown are living monuments, more valuable than any statue or museum we could erect. But they’re in imminent danger. My latest, for @nytopinion .
nytimes.com
Historic Black towns should not have to sell off pieces of the past to underwrite the present.
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another excerpt of AFRICATOWN, where I argue that #ZoraNealeHurston's #Barracoon reveals a lot about environmental racism--if we put it in its historical context. thanks to @grist for working with me on this! #EnvironmentalJustice .
grist.org
Africatown, the only U.S. community established by West Africans who survived the Middle Passage, reveals a longer history of environmental injustice.
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my book AFRICATOWN is out now. to write this thing I left my job at NYMag and moved to the Alabama Gulf Coast, where I worked on it full time for two years. it was an exhausting labor of love. check it out!
us.macmillan.com
An evocative and epic story, Nick Tabor's Africatown charts the fraught history of America from those who were brought here as slaves but nevertheless establ...
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