Congratulations BLACKBIIRD !!

Can’t wait to read it!

“I’m Jewish, and I’ve Covered Wars. I Know War Crimes When I See Them”: Reporter Peter Maass on Gaza democracynow.org/2024/4/16/isra…

It takes a village.
Immense gratitude to the entire team.

We have a beautiful credit box publishing on Friday 💛💐

You’ll be hearing my voice this week on Latino USA bringing you a special collaboration.
Writing & producing this episode w/ Andrea López-Cruzado 𓂆 nour Roxana Iraís Peniley Ramírez 🥑 restored my faith in collaborations ✨

Thank you for being such a joy to work with 💐

At least 103 journalists have been killed (often specifically targeted) in Gaza in the last five months.

rsf.org/en/103-journal….

A couple weeks ago, I backed out of the PEN World Voices conference in NYC because of PEN America’s lack of a consistent and vocal support of Palestinian writers and journalists commensurate to its vital support of persecuted writers and journalists in other war-torn regions. 🧵

💓If your music, your org or YOU were featured on Vocalo Radio 91.1 throughout the years show your support to #SaveVocalo 👇🏽

📞You can also call to leave a voicemail for #TeamVocalo at 888-635-1112 or email [email protected]:
vocalo.org/contacts/

Chicago, Morgan Farley has been missing for a week. If anyone has seen her, please get in touch with her family. You can find details on this flyer.

listen to me and afrobella talk to Erin about having perms/relaxers and the lawsuits alleging cancer from black women. wbez.org/stories/the-ru…

I’m sad Chicago Public Media decided to end @vocalo. A station that supports local independent artists and journalist of color. Vocalo was my way into public radio
I’m so grateful to every single Vocalo staffer and former staffers for gifting us such a cool station #SaveVocalo

Reverend Munther Isaac, a pastor in Bethlehem, says it makes him 'furious' to see fellow Christians in the United States not only ignore the plight of Palestinian Christians in Gaza but actively support Israel's genocide. democracynow.org/2024/4/1/easte…

If you couldn't attend FOIA Fest this year, you can still learn our keynote interview with Kimbriell Kelly, Washington bureau chief for The Los Angeles Times.

youtu.be/dCD-UV1GH3M

Congratulations 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

THIS. I taught at Radio Arte around this time and remember this deal happening. All the more reason to go support Yollocalli ArtsReach and the incredible weekly radio show they have on Lumpen Radio.

Closing Vocalo Radio 91.1 also effectively ends the legacy of Radio Arte, a community radio station focused on Latino youth.
In 2012, Chicago Public Media bought the signal and promised to incorporate programming.

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Journalism—its audiences and its workers—deserve better than what these institutions are giving it. It’s hard not to be angry about it all the time. Legacies are being ruined every day. Decades worth of work is being erased every day.

This sucks.

Today World Central Kitchen lost several of our sisters and brothers in an IDF air strike in Gaza. I am heartbroken and grieving for their families and friends and our whole WCK family. These are people…angels…I served alongside in Ukraine, Gaza, Turkey, Morocco, Bahamas, Indonesia. They…

Around 300 decomposing bodies showing signs of torture were found in the vicinity of al-Shifa Medical Complex following the withdrawal of Israeli forces after a two-week siege. The spokesperson for the Civil Defense said civilians were executed while their hands were tied

I have been working nonstop for the past 6 months covering what’s happening in Gaza, but what I saw today while visiting Al-Shifa hospital was unlike anything I’ve ever witnessed before :

Israeli occupation forces executed 300 Palestinians in and around the hospital, and this…