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

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Joined February 2009
Born April 04

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    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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  3. May 11

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

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  4. 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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  5. 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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  8. “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. I love this piece. This sista has some stories to tell.

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  11. 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. 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.

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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. May 1

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

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

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  18. May 1

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

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  19. May 1
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  20. Thrilled to announce I am joining as an EIC for an online publication geared toward Black Women. Woot!

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

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