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Emmanuel Felton
@emmanuelfelton
Race and ethnicity reporter at The
@WashingtonPost
, writing The Search for Black Mecca for
@harperbooks
, teaching journalism at
@yale
and
@hunter_college
New York via New Orleanswashingtonpost.com/people/emmanue…Joined March 2012
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Update: After residents expressed concern about the slow rollout of Evanston's reparations program, the city's reparations committee has announced it will host its first-ever listening session but some say the 9am time slot means working residents won't be able to attend
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Evanston passed reparations in 2019. The city has only spent $400,000 of the $10 million promised. Out of hundreds of Black residents who applied, 16 have received money. At least five people have died before their promised reparations could be dispersed washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/01
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So you're telling me an AMC+ subscription includes Sundance Now, but a Sundance Now subscription for the same price doesn't include AMC+
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Jeanna Kelley
@jeannathomas
No, you never said “Jewish space lasers” verbatim. You said that lasers were being shot from space and causing forest fires and blamed a bunch of Jewish people.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸
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Thank you! It’s a ridiculous fabricated media lie about me that corporate media still spreads to this day. I never even said that phrase nor thought it. Credentialed media, who condemn conspiracy theories, actually create them for politics, & unfortunately people believe them. twitter.com/NeilWMcCabe2/s…
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Laura Bassett
@LEBassett
As Republicans melt down over Biden’s waiting too long to shoot down the Chinese spy balloon, the DoD casually announces that 3 Chinese spy balloons came into the country during Trump’s presidency and he did nothing
defense.gov
F-22 Safely Shoots Down Chinese Spy Balloon Off South Carolina Coast
A U.S. Air Force fighter safely shot down a Chinese high-altitude surveillance balloon, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III said in a written statement. 
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Breaking precedent, the North Carolina Supreme Court will rehear two cases — one about redistricting and the other about voter ID — after Republican lawmakers petitioned for a different outcome after recent elections gave the GOP a majority on the court
southerncoalition.org
NC Supreme Court Majority Breaks Precedent to Rehear Settled Redistricting, Voter ID Cases Post...
RALEIGH, N.C. — In an extreme departure from precedent, the North Carolina Supreme Court announced Friday it would rehear two cases — one involving statewide redistricting and the other involving a…
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Ti-Hua Chang
@tihuachang
My article on the push to make Lunar New Year a federal holiday. The most realistic route may be by first getting the holiday recognized in states with large Asian populations like NY, California, Texas. Thus creating momentum for a federal holiday
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AsAmNews
@AsAmNews
Should Lunar New Year be a federal holiday? A federal law will be difficult to pass, but not impossible. asamnews.com/2023/02/03/hol
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Paul Vallas’s campaign for mayor of Chicago accepted a $5,000 contribution from former cop Richard E. Hagen who was named in two misconduct lawsuits prompted by the killing of 17-year-old McDonald in 2014 that cost the city more than $5 million.
wbez.org
Paul Vallas gets help in Chicago mayoral bid from ex-officer in Laquan McDonald scandal
The now-retired Chicago cop was named in two legal cases that cost the city more than $5 million. He gave $5,000 to the Vallas campaign.
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I just love that journalists can accept that implicit bias is a problem in the institutions that we cover but seem to think newsrooms are exempted
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It seems College Board wasn't prepared for the GOP pushback but this is not the first time they have come after its courses. In 2014, the RNC passed a resolution asserting that the US history course “emphasized negative aspects of our nation’s history"
hechingerreport.org
Is the new AP U.S. History really anti-American?
Whether the new version of AP U.S. History skips over key moments – and even disparages the nation – is being hotly debated across the country.
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Brian M. Rosenthal
@brianmrosenthal
NEW: One of the largest private providers of child care and special education services in New York City’s Orthodox Jewish and Hasidic communities has been arrested and charged with fraud. Story with @elizashapiro,
@BenWeiserNYT
and
@JulieATate
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nytimes.com
Education Firms Charged With Stealing $2.8 Million in Child Care Funds
The companies, which mainly served the Orthodox Jewish community, billed the government for services that they never provided, federal prosecutors said.
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Jennifer Kho
@jennkho
Today I asked a job candidate how they would approach DEI in the role. They stormed out, yelling about how that was an inappropriate question and they are not racist. So that was a new experience for me.
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Jireh Deng 鄧以樂 (they/them)
@bokchoy_baobei
The news moved on fast, but I needed time to process how the shooting in my neighborhood shattered our sense of safety in Asian American suburbia. Can we look beyond 'hate crimes' as a framework for justice? Here's my latest about it for
@TeenVogue
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teenvogue.com
Monterey Park Was a Place Where We Didn't Need to Assimilate. How Do Asian Americans Regain Safety?
Where are we safe if not in our own community?
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Radley Balko
@radleybalko
A Miss. woman was convicted due to Shaken Baby Syndrome. The med. examiner later said he was wrong. Yet she remains in prison, because a judge says he prefers the ME’s court testimony over his change of opinion. (Not a Hayne case, BTW)
kktv.com
‘I made a mistake’ - Medical examiner changes homicide finding, but convicted woman still behind...
Advances in pediatric medicine are raising questions about "Shaken Baby Syndrome" diagnoses, and suggesting thousands of children may have died because of medical conditions, rather than foul play.
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Karen Attiah
@KarenAttiah
The relative silence from other groups re: AP African American Studies mess is quite... loud. Imagine a state trying to formally wipe Jewish history, Asian American history, or other marginalized groups from AP curricula. If they come for us, they can come for yall, too.
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Ashton Pittman
@ashtonpittman
NEW: Even with 54% of Mississippi's rural hospitals in danger of collapse without Medicaid expansion, Gov. Reeves urged Republicans not to “cave under the pressure of Democrats and their allies in the media who are pushing for the expansion of Obamacare."
mississippifreepress.org
As Hospital Fail, Gov. Reeves Urges GOP to Hold Firm Against Medicaid Expansion
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves reiterated his opposition to expanding Medicaid during his State of the State address on Monday, Jan. 30, 2023.
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Mehdi Hasan
@mehdirhasan
Reminder: if GOP thinks Ilhan Omar should be removed from committees because she said AIPAC uses ‘Benjamins’ to control politicians, something she apologized for, then they should also replace Speaker McCarthy, who said Jewish billionaires ‘buy’ elections & never apologized.
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Sharpton says the officers betrayed King, who was killed there: Why what happened to Tyre is so personal to me is that 5 Black men that wouldn’t have had a job in the police department, would not ever be thought of to be in an elite squad in the city that Dr. King lost his life
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The careful balance between the political and the personal during these funerals is always really something to behold, it's hard to imagine what it must be like to be in the family.
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On Facebook, Tyre Nichols wrote about how hard it was to leave Sacramento, and especially his son, and the loneliness he felt in Memphis. He'd considered moving back but California’s cost of living kept him from returning. “I just don’t wanna move back and struggle that’s all.”
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Radley Balko
@radleybalko
This LinkedIn post claiming the cops who killed Tyre Nichols were "affirmative action hires" is all over right-wing social media. The author says he's a "police chief" . . . but from where? Looks like he's the "chief" of a 1-man police department, for a town of 700 people.
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Evan Mealins
@EvanMealins
ADOC has had two years to notify victims for the 400+ folks that were supposed to get out of prison tomorrow. As of last Friday, they had notified fewer than 20 victims, and hundreds in prison will be held past their release date until they notify them.
montgomeryadvertiser.com
Hundreds of prison releases delayed after ADOC fails to notify victims
Many scheduled for release Tuesday will be held until the victims of their offenses are notified. ADOC had contacted fewer than 20 as of last Friday.
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David Gilbert
@daithaigilbert
New from me: The Ohio Department of Education has told me it's aware of the neo Nazi homeschooling network being run by a couple in Upper Sandusky and is now investigating it for "compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements."
vice.com
Nazi Homeschool Network Under Investigation by Ohio’s Department of Education
They are investigating a group that advocates white supremacist ideologies with the aim to make sure the children they teach “become wonderful Nazis.” 
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Elad Nehorai
@EladNehorai
This entire thread is absolutely hilarious when you realize he’s taking about white people, and not the people they murdered when they invaded this land.
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John Doyle
@ComradeDoyIe
Just because you have a piece of paper saying that you’re an American doesn’t mean that you have equal claim to this country as those who can trace their ancestry on this land back to before the government that gave you that paper.
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