Very pleased and honored that I won, along with my incredible colleague Mari Cohen, a New York Press Club award for our coverage on 'Dissent in the Jewish Community over Israel and Zionism.' nypressclub.org/2024-gold-keyb…

'But instead of capitulating to The Free Press and Rufo's pressure campaign, NPR defended its CEO and its journalism and moved on.' popular.info/p/the-real-can…

“You see it in their face, people's eyes are dead, that spark isn't there.” Fmr CNN reporter & @inaraorg founder @iamarwadamon tells me about the chaos she saw in Gaza, and the psychological toll the Israel-Hamas war is taking on the children who live there.

I’ll be on the The Brian Lehrer Show and A Daily Politics Podcast show in the 11 am hour talking about my NYT Magazine cover store “The Colorblindness Trap.” Listen in. 🙏🏽 nytimes.com/2024/03/13/mag…

“What sets this project apart from others like it is how it’s paid for:

They created a crowdfunding campaign that recruited nearly 500 residents to invest $1.3 million as a down payment to help finance the project’s construction + earn up to 7 % annually in dividend payments.”

Mississippi Board of Directors Vice President Crystal Lynn Welch, 42, was the victim of a triple homicide over the Mother’s Day weekend alongside her mother and an older sister.

Crystal devoted her life to social-justice work and to bettering her state.
mississippifreepress.org/42193/crystal-…

Y'all check this out. According to this study, teachers asked to spot the 'troublemaker' in class overwhelming chose the Black male child, even though that child behaved the same as the other children in the study.

The deck is stacked against Black boys almost from birth.

So Princeton University decides to hold an informal faculty meeting about the University’s response to student protests. But they refuse to let the majority of faculty in the room. The room is at capacity, they say. And they say they’re interested in dialogue. Outrageous.

I block so liberally these days. Try me.

Today a United Nations vehicle was struck in Gaza, killing one of our colleagues & injuring another.
More than 190 UN staff have been killed in Gaza.
Humanitarian workers must be protected.
I condemn all attacks on UN personnel and reiterate my urgent appeal for an immediate humanitarian…

At 83, a woman becomes Howard University's oldest doctoral graduate wjla.com/news/local/how…

'The student left is the most reliably correct constituency in America. Over the past 60 years, it has passed every great moral test American foreign policy has forced upon the public, including the Vietnam war, apartheid South Africa, and the Iraq war.' theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees voted in a special meeting to redirect its $2.3 million in annual DEI-related spending to public safety in its upcoming budget.

Story from Kyle Ingram and me: newsobserver.com/news/local/edu…

Congratulations to Jada Ingleton and Jasper Smith for being selected as 2024 fellows of the HBCU Media Collective! The program is under the leadership of Dow Jones and in collaboration with the Columbia University School of Journalism.

Learn more here: thedig.howard.edu/all-stories/ho…

Why is children getting shot not at the top of the list of issues that elected and appointed leaders are trying to solve? Does anyone know of a community that has successfully ended this violence against children?

I’ll say it one more time: stop using Black people as your comparison group because it almost always reveals more about you than you think it does.

39 years ago today the City of Philadelphia dropped a bomb on a rowhouse on Osage Avenue belonging to MOVE, a West Philadelphia-based Black liberation and activist group.

The bombing and fire killed 11 people, and destroyed 61 homes.

🔗 inquirer.com/move-bombing/

Brown v. Board of Education set in motion desegregation and equity in public education, but there is still much work to be done to fulfill its promise.

Ahead of its 70th anniversary on 5/17, learn about the case's impact and the work that lies ahead: naacpldf.org/brown-vs-board/