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Senior Editor News, Politics & Issues | Digital Director | Board Member | Guggenheim Reporting Fellow | Power 100

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Born April 04
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    24 Apr 2018

    PSA: If there’s work to be done in social justice spaces, from environmental to food, to the courts, to state and sexual violence, guaranteed Black women are already doing it. Seek out these women instead of screaming: “WHY IS NO ONE SPEAKING ABOUT THIS.” Someone always is.

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  2. 2 hours ago

    Real tears.

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    me explaining to my boyfriend why we’re going on a sex strike:
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    May 11

    “Worry About Yourself” - a Black woman MTA worker you should’ve listened too.

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  4. 5 hours ago

    My dog waiting on Jon Snow to get caught slipping after the way he did her play cousin Ghost last week.

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    9 hours ago

    . interviewed ’s mother, Samaria Rice, about keeping his memory alive & making sure the cop who killed him never wears a badge again

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    9 hours ago

    ’s brother wrote a heartfelt letter to his mother who passed away

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    9 hours ago

    For we spoke with Sybrina Fulton, 's Mother, About Forgiveness And Her Work - Essence

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  8. 7 hours ago

    “You know, me and my children, we saw Trayvon. Then we saw Eric Garner, then Michael Brown. Then guess who we saw next?” — Samaria Rice Samaria Rice is a warrior who never stops fighting for her baby boy. I’m in awe of her.

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  9. May 11

    I love this piece. This sista has some stories to tell.

    So has this amazing 60x40 piece of art & someone should really buy it, so she can stop torturing me with photos on Instagram
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  10. May 8

    Link:

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  11. May 8

    I’ll never understand how any Black person who claims to love Black people supports this man. Make it make sense.

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  12. May 8

    From 2007: Y’all’s Uncle Joe explaining that schools in Iowa are better because there aren’t a lot of Black people there. Oh, and that Black mothers birth babies into dysfunctional homes and then never talk to them, so of course Black children aren’t as smart as white children.

    reporter: why are schools in iowa are better than DC? joe biden: lol black people of course
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  13. May 2

    In honor of Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month, I’m reposting this piece from my fam, Samoan writer Rudy Mageo. He writes here about what boxing taught him about white supremacy.

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    May 1

    Few people know that I cut my teeth organizing around the CP5 case. In particular when Trump pulled this our youth organizing group decided we had to speak up and push back. I am so glad to see bring this story to the mainstream.

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    On this day thirty years ago, Trump bought $85k worth of ads in NYC papers calling for the execution of boys known as The Central Park 5 - before their trial. Today, we replace his hateful ad with another image. They were innocent. And the system failed them.
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    May 1

    it wasn’t liberals who got you the 8-hour workday or the weekend. it was leftists. here’s to the anarchists, the socialists, and the commies.

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    May 1

    Our best to Bushwick Bill, who just revealed that he's battling stage 4 pancreatic cancer 🙏🏽

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  17. May 1

    We took so many trips on this skybridge. And I remember our conversations with Fairy the most. She’s amazing.

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    When shuttle driver Fairy Shelvin whisks passengers across the skybridge, she makes it a point to distract them from their worries by getting to know them. “In that short of a time, you can have such a good conversation,” says Shelvin. “Everybody has a story.”
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    May 1

    "I thought it was my apartment. I’m f–ked. Oh my God. I’m sorry."

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    May 1

    Welcome to Gay Magazine by

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    May 1

    Thrilled to announce I am joining as an EIC for an online publication geared toward Black Women. Woot!

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    May 1

    NEW JOB ALERT 🚨: Medium Is Creating 4 Publications That Revolve Around Topics Popular Among Readers

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