My husband and I engaged in archive and memory work for my Pi Alpha Omega (AKA) chapter’s 40th anniversary. This was a film about civil rights.To watch it on a theater screen at Spelman College + listen to an audience laugh, cry, and hum certified Negro spirituals was THE MOST REWARDING moment.

Last week, Israel targeted and massacred 34 newspaper reporters in Yemen. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, it was the second deadliest attack on journalists ever recorded.

This black dog is also Black

Karen Attiah made critical comments about *men who are white supremacists* and @washingtonpost.com said that they are a protected class Be clear about what they were saying That white supremacists are a protected class

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

“.. Those who refuse to sign the new policy will be stripped of or denied permanent credentials to cover the Pentagon.” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

I covered Doug Collins in Georgia. Vernal was my colleague. Send Vernal the tips.

Stop talking about what was your dream job. Start devaluing these places like they devalued, disrespected and abused you. Then, build. Continue the work. Live.

Randomly sharing one of my February newsletters, because…it’s fitting for a time such as this: open.substack.com/pub/nicolefc...

This isn’t hard. Look at who is seated at the table. Look at who is ALWAYS seated at the table and considered to be intelligent and who can’t be hired to lead or co-lead the conversation because “oooo, THE PIPELINE.” Diversity is SOOO hard. GTFOH.

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

This is why-after years of investigating “parental rights groups”I delivered the 2023 Democracy Summit opening address to a panel @nhannahjones.bsky.social aptly named “Not a Culture War.”We’ve BEEN examining this as an existential threat to democracy blinded by race: www.youtube.com/live/0fkGiZ0...

My husband and I have been busy archiving and conducting memory work. On Sunday, our short film, Through the Years, will premiere at Spelman College . This is a story about the visionaries who chartered my Pi Alpha Omega chapter of Alpha Kappa Sorority, Inc . This is a short about civil rights.

Jimmy Kimmel has millions The teachers who got fired ? Don’t The Black women who were put on websites for THE FIRST HALF OF THIS ENTIRE YEAR don’t The immigrants scared to go outside because they are kidnapping them out of cars? But yeah!!!! Now it matters?!?

I want you to read one of my 2022 investigations again + understand that the response you’re seeing from your children’s school boards-the harassment + firing of teachers, administrators & staff-is tied to a network of folks who have been in this game for years: www.propublica.org/article/geor...

Karen is a columnist. Karen wrote as columnists write. Karen was fired. Karen’s class on race and reporting was among those cancelled at Columbia. I know Karen, literally and in a proverbial sense. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt... @karenattiah.bsky.social

It’s okay not to carry it live. You can listen, edit into digestible pieces and provide context. You can examine your newsroom ethics, what it means to be a tool for PUBLIC GOOD and your capabilities to provide that context before you platform. It’s a thing. You can do it.

I did not read one example in this piece that illustrated a celebration of murder. I read several examples of people pointing out who the victim was, and the harm that he caused with his own widespread speech. Then I read that extremists are weaponizing those folks’ speech against them.

Every now & then I think it’s a good time to repost this newsletter or some other talk I’ve given about why it’s so hard to process or cover the impact of white supremacy. It comes in many political,racial forms. Sometimes it’s overt, sometimes it’s packaged nicely: open.substack.com/pub/nicolefc...

What did I say? For anyone who’s reported on extremism…we know this much: bsky.app/profile/juli...

Sheltered in place at Morehouse and Clark. I don’t receive Spelman notifications, but assuming the same stands across the AUC.

I hate that that bad writers of headlines and think pieces have unlimited opportunities to embarrass themselves on main while I/we often need to beg for the opportunity to make our case and say something serious and responsible about the moment.

Right now we are watching news organizations prove themselves incapable of crafting headlines, honest reporting and think pieces that properly speak to this moment. We are experiencing inhumanity of our own making. (Cont)

These folks want a civil war-not a “culture war”-of their own creation. We’ve been dealing with openly violent, white supremacists in this country for the better part of the decade +media has covered this like a good faith political game. This is where game commentary, normalization has gotten us.

As someone on the Professor Watchlist who has many friends and colleagues on the Professor Watchlist, please leave us alone.

If you read a lot of my reporting from 2021-2024, it may help you understand today’s stories that are playing out like this-scenarios none of us should remain neutral about: bsky.app/profile/pete...

It fundamentally cuts against core, cherished constitutional principles. Not surprised.

So the state’s largest economic development project is the site of a raid where the feds held 300 economic ally partners hostage. Now the detained employees are awaiting their government to send a charter plane to take them back to South Korea from the Savannah area.

A group called Return to the Land has established two "whites-only communities" in Arkansas, with plans for four more sites in the Ozarks and Appalachia. The creation of white ‘ethnostates’ is the ultimate goal of some white nationalists, a scholar of right-wing extremism explains:

The Justice Department's acting deputy chief was caught on a hidden camera saying that the government will "redact every Republican" from an Epstein client list and "leave all the liberal, Democratic people."

In historic proceedings, Brazil’s high court also prosecutes senior officials for alleged coup plot and attacks on democracy, with eight sessions scheduled through Sept. 12. www.courthousenews.com/brazil-supre...

Last month I headed back to school, as a parent, professor and student. This is why I see my doctoral studies as important to my journalistic body of work: open.substack.com/pub/nicolefc...

I’m unimpressed by the “thought leaders” who are just coming around to raising a red flag on the state of emergency. In all industries. In all ways. The absence of your voice (because the cost of using it was too expensive) won’t be forgotten.

A better world is possible.

I’m really sad to see the AJC end its print editions. Newsprint is so special. I engage with paper in a way I engage with the physical book. And there’s nothing like seeing your byline in print… www.ajc.com/opinion/2025...

I've doubted many times whether this is the right time for #TheDoubleTax to come out, but everything about Governor Cook this week has confirmed to me that this book is meeting the moment. For those who don't know, the rise of Governor Cook is featured PROMINENTLY in #TheDoubleTax: annagifty.com.

“These journalists were present in their professional capacity, doing critical work bearing witness. Their work is especially vital in light of Israel’s nearly two-year ban on foreign journalists entering Gaza.”

“We are outraged that independent journalists were among the victims of this strike on the hospital, a location that is protected under international law…” reutersagency-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/reutersa...

Listening to my mother talk about not having the option to attend Kindergarten in Jim Crow South Carolina… She holds a doctorate degree. She’s traveled the world. When I say our existence is miraculous. You absolutely cannot tear me down because my ancestral line keeps me.

The US Administration is now deleting its internal communications, in brazen violation of the Federal Records Act, in order to conceal its other illegal acts. Those entrusted to enforce our Congress’s laws sit, simply watching this happen, flaccid and impotent.

You're absolutely right. So if you know of folks who are running for school board who support public education and democracy, let them know about us. www.democracy-education.org

Trying to ban a “DEI worldview.” Oxymoronic for morons whose mindsets are fertilized in White supremacy.

Seems like a good time to reiterate pieces of my Feb. column: “It’s not about the book bans, the bathrooms or the mythical “indoctrinators” teaching our kids basic math, science and history. Rather, this was about the dismantling of trust, oversight and institutions.” www.ajc.com/education/ge...

So many of you have been used for the business of hate in the anti-Trans movement. Don’t you know that you’re being tested for your appetite to “other” people? Seep yourself in humanity and you will never go wrong. Seek superiority and your soul will rot.

I shook my head over this in a recent board meeting (not affiliated with my teaching institution). What does it say about you and your institution when you proudly tout the fact that you got rid of equity policies and now you’re “safe?” It’s not a win. It’s not admirable. It makes you sorry.

Humans everywhere. But humanity nowhere.

I am grateful for the opportunity to step into a Visiting Assistant Professor role at Morehouse College , an institution that’s allowed me to pour into HBCU students during a fragile and harrowing period in our nation’s history.

The White House's memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize. “What you have is this desire to get people to buy into the fun of sadism,” says Jason Stanley, an author who’s leaving the US because of “concerns over fascism.”

Been monitoring the number of journalists killed in Gaza since ‘23, following CPJ’s guidance on assistance,support. Thx to the local journalists who have organized a 2nd vigil to remember brave media workers who have lived, died to document what is before us.History is not recorded w/o journalists.

One reveal in this interview: I wrote the entirety of There Is No Place for Us by hand. I'm an evangelist for pen and paper.