Kai Wright

@kai_wright

Host of 's podcast, columunist, and Twitter laggard. Please, no shouting.

Brooklyn
Joined July 2009

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    May 7

    Remember last year when everybody noticed black women are dying of racism during child birth? It didn’t stop just cause we moved on to the next story. follows up by talking to black moms & birth workers in new ep podcast—>

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  2. 3 hours ago

    Ready for this. Glenda Jackson doing King Lear, with birthday girl 👋🏾

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  3. Retweeted
    May 8

    NYC can no longer arrest kids who run away from their foster homes. (Just let that whole sentence sink in for a moment.)

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  4. May 8
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  5. May 8

    Do we really believe ppl support Trump because they think he's a successful business person? So why didn't they love Mitt Romney? The racism and misogyny was and remains the main dish.

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  6. Retweeted
    May 8

    And before anyone comes into my mentions with the idea that no one would actually enforce it - that no one wants to arrest women - please know that women are ALREADY going to prison for abortion

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  7. Retweeted
    May 8

    .: As you think about solutions to the nation's black maternal mortality crises— listen to what heard when I asked black women and health care providers how they're responding:

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  8. May 8

    Also, this writing makes me 🤬: “in neighborhoods in which minorities make up a majority of the population, according to an NBC News analysis.” ... So, by definition, NOT “MINORITIES”

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  9. May 8

    Notable. Means she’s talking to ppl the other candidates are not, which is at least one indication of how much she’ll be able to expand the electorate

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  10. May 8
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  11. Retweeted
    May 8

    We’re expecting a great conversation with panelists, Alejandra Nasser of , and , moderated by of REGISTER TODAY FOR THIS FREE EVENT!

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  12. Retweeted
    May 7

    I was denied a car loan last year for being late on one car payment. This dude blew a billion in loans over a decade and then opened a new hotel next to the White House

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  13. May 7

    Coming home to my man having made carnitas on a random Tuesday is the vision. 🥳

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  14. Retweeted
    May 7

    On the day and released its episode 'Giving Birth While Black,' released new numbers on maternal mortality. They're still bad. Listen on for more information... and potential solutions:

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  15. May 7

    Damn. That's a lotta money. Maybe it was Obama-era economic growth?

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  16. May 7

    2/2 Sandra Bland's life and death is so much deeper & more complex than the moment of conflict with the cop. To truly understand anti-black violence, we must widen our view. 's profile was essential reading for that:

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  17. May 7

    1/2 This is, of course, horrific and yet another example why cops *feeling* threatened cannot be a justification for their aggression. But also...

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  18. May 7

    Alas, tmw's crime podcasting convo has to be rescheduled. But stay tuned for a new date...

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  20. Retweeted
    May 7

    I spoke with black women in my own life including my friend, Leeann Rizk (pictured above), sociologist and celebrated author , and NYT’s , who’s been reporting on Black maternal health since the late 1980s, when she was health editor of .

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  21. May 7

    Beacon to There Goes the Neighborhood fans. and are cooking up the next serving as part of

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