Love lifting heavy things... racial equity and empowerment missions, weights and barbells. 1000% agree on the subversive reasons why we do this. Sooooo here for the swoletariat and #ResistanceTraining. 💪🏾
That these cuts come amid a period when there is a full scale reversal on media commitment to equity and inclusion is especially telling and galling. The news industry's steady march toward racial rentrenchment takes another step. www.thewrap.com/nbc-news-lay...
As a former NBC News government editor (and fill-in NBC BLK managing editor from time to time back in the day), I'm disheartened to see how many journalists of color were cut in the network's rush to "lighten its load."
Whether it was Ida B. Wells documenting lynchings or today’s independent journalists covering ICE raids and police violence, the stakes have always been life, liberty, and access. Read more in my latest Substack essay: open.substack.com/pub/domestic...
Listening to them, I couldn’t help but think of our own legacy of resistance — how journalists of color in this country have always reported under threat, not unlike those Russian reporters risking state retaliation today.
I recently coached a group of visiting Russian journalists — reporters whose courage often far exceeds their press freedom under President Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian regime.
I stand poised to help the publication close this chapter with dignity ahead of our move to Howard University while contemplating the complicated American backstory on the eve of the “Independence Day” holiday. Please check out my newly launched Substack to read more. domesticpolichick.substack.com
This is the situation I find myself in as a Black journalist, a contributing managing editor and the last newsroom leader standing at @theemancipator.org. Thanks to the entire Emancipator (Boston) team--staffers and contributors--for your dedication to mission, intellect, passion and creativity.
It's a strange thing to take sudden stewardship of a home in which you were always a “guest.” When the hosts leave the walls, corridors, treasured mementos, and trappings suddenly feel ephemeral. History whispers and echoes. Recent memories begin to vanish around the edges as new realities settle.
Congratulations to The Emancipator team for all that was accomplished and for the pending move to "The Mecca," Howard University! theemancipator.org/2025/06/12/t...
I am proud to have helped The E do this work by developing a sharp new editorial strategy focused on relevant social media-first reporting, overhauling internal workflows, clarifying and strengthening their overall editorial approach and content, hone budgets, and much more.
This is the mission of @theemancipator.org . We believe these times demand we do this work in the spirit of a modern day abolitionist press.
Outgoing editor-in-chief @jamilsmith.bsky.social:"Too many journalists and media outlets continue to treat the horror of systemic and individual racism as if it were still somehow uncanny, a mysterious and ethereal force that cannot be properly quantified or described — let alone properly covered."
Some of y’all noticed I’ve been uncharacteristically offline. This is why, and I remain on leave for a few weeks to handle a PTSD relapse. CJR was dogged in its pursuit of my story. Because of what I do and who I am, I felt that I had to answer their questions honestly.
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Colorado football breakout star Shedeur Sanders’ belated selection by the Cleveland Browns in the fifth round of the 2025 NFL draft is an example of the racialized double standard applied to Black athletes. 🖊️ @chandelis.bsky.social 🧵
The safety in and desire for knowing and in being known, in being treasured and loved as a precious part of a beloved community is at the crux of “Sinners’” resonance. The movie is a homily for all of us as modern-day keepers of memory.
I am the ancestral rhythms born anew in hip-hop, raw and powerful, dancing in my 20s till sweaty in the Citizens Club, which was a modern-day juke joint near cotton fields. Black kids danced free from White gaze — and all of the trouble that comes with it.
I am the rootwork of the everyday admonitions: Don’t let your feet get swept. Keep your purse off the floor. Make sure you burn that hair if you gon’ cut it.
I was my Mississippi-born grandmother, serenely beautiful and pregnant, majestically appointed in satin and sable, who was forced to urinate behind a White-owned gas station after being denied use of the restroom inside.
I was the anguish of a Black ancestor, who lived relatively free as the son of a White enslaver and enslaved Black woman when he was kidnapped during a Choctaw raid in Kentucky and sold for guns and whiskey to a plantation in the Mississippi Delta.
I was a little girl sweating through my hijab in New Medinah, Mississippi, a small Muslim town in the heart of the Bible Belt — my tender voice joining the chorus of community prayers echoing in the dusk.
In one particularly euphoric dance scene, Black and Brown bodies of past, present, and future moved in transcendent communion. Long-buried memories from decades past came rushing back in breathtaking clarity.
As I recently wrote for @theemancipator.org , as a descendant daughter of the Mississippi Delta, Ryan Coogler’s new film “Sinners” touched an ancestral chord in my spirit. (Spoiler alert) 🧵 theemancipator.org/2025/04/26/t...
I told ChatGPT that I wanted to be a philosopher as a kid.
And then it said that I was a DEI hire?!?!!??
God, we are fucked.
President Donald Trump’s newest executive order “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” is anything but. Instead, declarations that the Smithsonian Institution has “in recent years, come under the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology,” are blatantly racist. 🧵
We, the people, are at our own precipice moment in modern American history.
We must stand poised to defend an inclusive past in order to ensure an antiracist future.
It doesn’t take much more than a cursory thumb through history to find examples of dictatorial regimes that decimated art and rewrote history in the lead-up to atrocious civil and human rights violations.
President Trump signed an executive order that he said would “begin eliminating the federal Department of Education once and for all.” Attempts to shutter the Department of Education are congressionally unlikely and legally questionable. theemancipator.org/2025/03/19/s...
The real reason Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, sparks outrage: Black women and the right to leisure🧵
🖊️ Halimah Abdullah
“On dangerous times and The State of the People.” In this edition of Fortify, you can watch our segment with @theemancipator.org on The Great Resegregation. open.substack.com/pub/nicolefc...
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