As the only AAPI science newsroom in the nation, the decision to elevate KC as Editor-at-Large demonstrates our commitment to not only covering AAPI communities well but also providing opportunities for AAPI science journalists to do their best work. Welcome (back), KC!

Student newsrooms at HBCUs to receive $200,000 in boost for journalism | US universities | The Guardian theguardian.com/us-news/articl…

My Ida B. Wells Society mentee alyse🤍 is celebrated by her entire village. We love you. We’re rooting for you. You are worthy. Congratulations, my Dear. 💙 #HU

This.

I hope journalists nationwide realize that no amount of partisan 'both sides' reporting will save them or their livelihoods from a fascist government that has no regard for press freedoms.

SCOOP: Barron Trump is declining Florida's offer to be a delegate to the Republican National Convention this summer, citing 'prior committments,' Melania Trump's office tells me
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Today is the 110th birthday of Viola Ford Fletcher. She’s one of two remaining survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Her case for reparations from what happened is now in the hands of the Oklahoma Supreme Court.

Let's do investigative journalism, too. The ranks have not improved much in the decades we've seen newsrooms pledge to diversify their teams - despite the fact there are many talented journalists of color who are skilled.

There is no pipeline issue.

That’s journalism, period.
Same story.
Different cast.
Another generation.

Local school board in Virginia - cradle of slavery - votes to resurrect Confederate school names. bbc.com/news/world-us-…

Children ‘piled up and shot’: new details emerge of ethnic cleansing in Darfur theguardian.com/world/article/…

Xavier University cancels UN ambassador’s commencement speech after student outcry apnews.com/article/xavier…

Republican National Committee Co-chair Lara Trump made the head-spinning claim Thursday that it’s “obvious” her father-in-law does accept election results, despite his persistent false claims about fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
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This professor, Jonathan Yudelman, also teaches at Bari Weiss’ “anti-woke” University of Austin, per Phoenix New Times

The two-time Pulitzer-winning author Colson Whitehead said Thursday he wouldn’t give a commencement speech at the University of Massachusetts Amherst after school leadership’s decision to call the police to clear out an encampment of student protesters.
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Gannett fires an editor for talking to Poynter’s Rick Edmonds:

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This nurse worked in Monroe County, NY where I spent some time last year reporting a series called Chaos at the School Board. The Monroe chapter of the ProPublica series gives you a sense of how this pushback intersected w race/politics in the ed space: propublica.org/article/securi…

The premise here is literally about how some white ppl feel vs facts: “But my personal opinion is that DEI has set all that behind, because now a lot of folks feel like they’re being called racist for the last seven or eight years or nine years because of their white privilege.”

🎧: Listen to my NPR Morning Edition piece on Trump’s dire campaign rally rhetoric playlist, which ranges from “greatest hits” attacks on Biden and comparisons to Al Capone to the one-off riffs about NATO and his “bloodbath” remarks that make headlines.

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