White House stands by State Department nominee who complains that "white Americans are increasingly second-class citizens," warns of "white erasure" and says "the Jews love to see themselves as oppressed." @camcgrady.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...
In the litanies about the Post layoffs, everyone keeps forgetting to say features. Twas ever thus at the Post, but those stories about the seizing of American cultural institutions? They don't report and write themselves.
A Virginia school board is being sued by the NAACP for reinstating the names of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson on two of its schools after stripping the names in 2020. I went to the hearing where it felt like the Confederacy itself was on trial. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
“This level of attack is unsustainable for Chicagoans.”
President Trump claimed that crime-afflicted Black residents begged him to intervene in Chicago. Six weeks into the crackdown, the attack on crime that he promised hasn’t happened, and many in the city’s Black population haven’t been won over.
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Yes. Excellent story by @camcgrady.bsky.social in @nytimes.com . www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/u...
Thank you Jamelle
look what happens when you actually speak to the people living in these neighborhoods instead of ventriloquizing them to make an ideological point: you get a good story www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/u...
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The “wet blanket” analogy wasn’t too far off tho
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Only 19 percent of students at Howard University are Black men. There are now about as many non-Black students attending HBCUs as there are Black men. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/u...
“We finally got you.” Jeanette Vizguerra, who made national news evading deportation in a church basement, is the latest activist to be taken into custody by federal immigration agents. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/u...
This gulf story has everything: a map-maker debating the name change, an oceanographer listening to whales, a Venezuelan mom on a gulf-side bus ride to an immigration appt — all bookended by Margaritavilles (Key West & S. Padre Island) and, of course, SpaceX. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
D’Wayne Wiggins, a founding member and the lead singer of the R&B trio Tony! Toni! Toné!, which had three platinum albums and a slew of hits in the 1980s and ’90s, died on Friday. He was 64.
Rose Girone as an older woman with white hair and black glasses, dressed in a blue shirt. She is seated and smiling. Text reads: "1912-2025. Rose Girone. Oldest Holocaust Survivor. Dies at 113." Photo credit: Courtesy Gina Bennicasa
Rose Girone, who was believed to be the oldest survivor of the Holocaust, died this week at 113.
She fled Nazi Germany in 1939 with her husband and baby only to be forced into a Jewish ghetto in Shanghai. Still, she would often say, "Aren’t we lucky?"
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February 1 is the beginning of Black History Month, which for decades has recognized the contributions of Black people to American civic life and culture. With President Trump’s furious assault on diversity programs, the celebration takes on new significance.
