As a former NBC News government editor (and fill-in NBC BLK managing editor from time to time back in the day), I'm disheartened to see how many journalists of color were cut in the network's rush to "lighten its load."

I recently coached a group of visiting Russian journalists — reporters whose courage often far exceeds their press freedom under President Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian regime.

It's a strange thing to take sudden stewardship of a home in which you were always a “guest.” When the hosts leave the walls, corridors, treasured mementos, and trappings suddenly feel ephemeral. History whispers and echoes. Recent memories begin to vanish around the edges as new realities settle.

Outgoing editor-in-chief @jamilsmith.bsky.social:"Too many journalists and media outlets continue to treat the horror of systemic and individual racism as if it were still somehow uncanny, a mysterious and ethereal force that cannot be properly quantified or described — let alone properly covered."

Some of y’all noticed I’ve been uncharacteristically offline. This is why, and I remain on leave for a few weeks to handle a PTSD relapse. CJR was dogged in its pursuit of my story. Because of what I do and who I am, I felt that I had to answer their questions honestly. www.cjr.org/feature-2/we...

Colorado football breakout star Shedeur Sanders’ belated selection by the Cleveland Browns in the fifth round of the 2025 NFL draft is an example of the racialized double standard applied to Black athletes. 🖊️ @chandelis.bsky.social 🧵

As I recently wrote for @theemancipator.org , as a descendant daughter of the Mississippi Delta, Ryan Coogler’s new film “Sinners” touched an ancestral chord in my spirit. (Spoiler alert) 🧵 theemancipator.org/2025/04/26/t...

I told ChatGPT that I wanted to be a philosopher as a kid. And then it said that I was a DEI hire?!?!!?? God, we are fucked.

President Donald Trump’s newest executive order “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” is anything but. Instead, declarations that the Smithsonian Institution has “in recent years, come under the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology,” are blatantly racist. 🧵

We, the people, are at our own precipice moment in modern American history. We must stand poised to defend an inclusive past in order to ensure an antiracist future.

It doesn’t take much more than a cursory thumb through history to find examples of dictatorial regimes that decimated art and rewrote history in the lead-up to atrocious civil and human rights violations.

President Trump signed an executive order that he said would “begin eliminating the federal Department of Education once and for all.” Attempts to shutter the Department of Education are congressionally unlikely and legally questionable. theemancipator.org/2025/03/19/s...

The real reason Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, sparks outrage: Black women and the right to leisure🧵 🖊️ Halimah Abdullah

“On dangerous times and The State of the People.” In this edition of Fortify, you can watch our segment with @theemancipator.org on The Great Resegregation. open.substack.com/pub/nicolefc... @victorerikray.bsky.social @amberpayne.bsky.social @ibramxk.bsky.social #StateofthePeople

With abortion rights under attack nationwide, the fight for reproductive freedom has never been more urgent. Join The Emancipator’s @amberpayne.bsky.social and U.S. Rep. @pressley.house.gov (D-Mass.) at @sxsw.com for a critical fireside chat on the state of abortion access. 🗓️ March 9 - 2:30 CT

The Emancipator welcomes @nicolefcarr.bsky.social and @victorerikray.bsky.social to explore how Trump is resegregating America. Watch #TheStateofThePeople LIVE here: www.youtube.com/live/wW1Y4hp...

Very honored to edit contributing senior editor, @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social, in her most recent essay for @theemancipator.org. As the granddaughter of Chinese revolutionaries, she chronicles the unimaginable choices her elders made and the heavy toll their violent resistance exacted on her family.

In this perilous moment, when “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” for millions of Americans teeters on the edge of a blade, many in the federal workforce are holding the line. Read and subscribe to our newsletter: theemancipator.org/2025/02/18/s...

The @theemancipator.org is headed to Howard University with our co-founder @ibramxk.bsky.social this summer as he builds the Institute for Advanced Study. The institute will focus on the interdisciplinary study of racism in the global African Diaspora. bit.ly/3Q9yiAs

Trump’s toxic anti-Black, anti-LGBTQ, anti-immigrant, and anti-woman policies are fueling the current wave of expatriation (or at least daydreams of less hostile climes). So, what's your "Blaxit" strategy? theemancipator.org/2025/02/06/t...

You gotta love how we members of the 92% vowed to rest and, in our time of ease, sistas created a whole virtual HBCU. 😂 Am I enrolled? Yep. A full slate of classes. See ya on the yard!

Whatever “making America great again” truly means, Trump's early moves-- and his blitz of harmful executive orders-- signal that segregation is essential to it. Distinguished race scholar Victor Ray urges us to call the new segregationist movement by its name, civility be damned. bit.ly/3EemR7Q

A social justice journalist mama's grief: When your child dials 911 at school because, after a night of community raids, he is terrified ICE will come into his school and take his immigrant friends away. Now I must explain that calling 911 will not help you.

Coronation day on Capitol Hill... may whatever you hold dear preserve and keep you and those you love safe in the days ahead. theemancipator.org/2025/01/20/c...

@theemancipator.org asked activists, lawmakers, and academics to weigh in on a day in which we honor King’s devotion to equity and community building while also bearing witness to Trump's second inauguration, the antithesis of those aims. Here's what they said: theemancipator.org/2025/01/20/t...

Queer nightlife has a radical history as a space where Black and Brown people love freely and express themselves. Check out Malavika Kannan's latest feature on the Red Lantern District for @theemancipator.org . Beautifully edited by @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social theemancipator.org/2025/01/15/t...

I asked Liv, the Meta-Ai created “queer momma” why her creators didn’t actually draw from black queer people. Not sure if Liv has media training, but here we are.

Perhaps due to its horrors, the Jan. 6 insurrection was quintessentially all-American. Throughout our history, periods of transformative change have been inextricably linked to violent uprisings. Is a less brutal path possible? @theemancipator.org theemancipator.org/2025/01/06/t...

Hello Bluesky... with this first post, I'm reclaiming mine. To those who find their skies dimmed and wings clipped by racism, power abuses, and structural inequities, know this: Everyone deserves a chance to fly. I've regained my wings and am now defying gravity. theemancipator.org/2024/12/21/t...