Olivia Messer @AsteadWesley How much better it was in old Hollywood when celebrity publicists existed solely to tell their clients to simply shut up

A little part of me misses the We Got Y'all days #Insecure

New from me. Amazon illegally withheld millions in tips to drivers, which it now has to pay back. Read below:

USC social work program created cartoons for target demographics, assigning them race/age. A Black woman dubbed Needy Nelly "needs hand-holding" & has trouble with her application, whereas Money Molly is a “very intelligent” white applicant. wsj.com/articles/usc-o… The Wall Street Journal

(1) This month, I wrote about something very close to my heart this holiday season: the tradition of making buñuelos. I remember when my Ayaya and Abuelo dedicated several days to making dozens of them, freezing them and deep-frying them fresh for dessert. nytimes.com/2021/12/13/din…

bell hooks in conversation with Lil Kim for the 1997 cover story of Paper Magazine papermag.com/lil-kim-bell-h…

The Fed last year said it would run a policy of allowing the unemployment rate to fall as low as possible as long as inflation was stable. Events this year have made that untenable writes Greg Ip wsj.com/articles/dashi…

Claudette Colvin's juvenile record has been expunged, 66 years after she was arrested for refusing to give her bus seat to a White person cnn.com/2021/12/16/us/…

Congrats to Newmark J-School Class of 2021 on today's commencement! 🎓🎖️🎆 You attended grad school through a #pandemic and you rocked it! Such an honor to watch you passionate, talented, capable folks grow as journalists. It's just the beginning!

After years of reporting — more than 1,300 hidden Pentagon documents, ground investigation at the sites of 100+ U.S. airstrikes in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, and scores of interviews — we present part 1 of THE CIVILIAN CASUALTY FILES: nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Spoke with the "Baddest Chick" Trina on her influence on the new wave of female rappers and how she continues to reinvent herself through music and film. “She’s the baddest, I don’t care what nobody says." Miami Herald TRINA ALLBLK miamiherald.com/entertainment/…

I've been excited to work more closely with @Quicktake's long-form team in 2021. In recent months we've been putting together our MADE series with @EBONYMag. We're featuring Black artisans, their craft + the overall contributions of Black folks in that industry. Watch below 👇🏾

'UNDERCOVER LOBBYING' winds shift after The Wall Street Journal investigation JamesVGrimaldi Joe Palazzolo Coulter Jones Federal judges have often fought off attempts by Congress to impose ethics or accountability rules. Lawmakers are making a new run at it now. wsj.com/articles/judge… via The Wall Street Journal

When Joan Didion wrote, "My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests," I really, really felt that.

"They don't deserve our attention, and most certainly never earned our streams." . @danikwateng shares her thoughts on how some "brutally honest" podcasts parrot the same misogynist stereotypes men have used to disempower Black women for decades. #OpEd tnvge.co/LjT3y1C

Eat your heart out, Sydney Sweeney fans. In our Love Issue, the #Euphoria and #TheWhiteLotus scene-stealer opens up like never before. Get to know the *real* power player behind Cassie and Olivia here: csmo.us/FhznpVt

Every journalist covering Ukraine should really, really look internally. This is why I say we should stop pretending we have objectivity and in instead acknowledge our biases so that we can report against them. Many of us see the racialized analysis and language.

Calling all journalists! NPR has decided not to offer summer internships. There may be others that do the same. Students need this experience. Please post paid journalism #internships you may know about on this thread. Thank you. Plz RT #JournalismInternships #SummerInterns

I've already given it my all this week and it's only Tuesday.