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Trump Nominates an Apostle of ‘White Erasure’ for the State Department

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.

The Confederacy Goes on Trial, Along With Schools Named Jackson and Lee

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...

Trump Said Black Chicagoans Wanted His ‘Blitz.’ Many Disagree.

“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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Thank you

Yes. Excellent story by @camcgrady.bsky.social in @nytimes.com . www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/u...

Thank you Jamelle

Where D.C. Crime Is Bad, Residents Question Trump’s Motives

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...

Remembering George Floyd and the Racial Reckoning He Sparked KQED's Forum · Episode

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Five years after the murder of George Floyd, we spoke with @newsbysamuels.bsky.social and @camcgrady.bsky.social about who Floyd was and where the struggle for racial justice is headed.

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Remembering George Floyd and the Racial Reckoning He Sparked | KQED We’ll talk about who George Floyd was and where the struggle for racial justice is headed.

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We're speaking with @newsbysamuels.bsky.social, @camcgrady.bsky.social‬ and professor Yohuru Williams about who George Floyd was and where the struggle for racial justice is headed.

❓ What does George Floyd's life and death mean to you five years later?

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5 Years After George Floyd’s Murder, the Backlash Takes Hold The Black Lives Matter movement, kicked into high gear after Mr. Floyd’s murder on May 25, 2020, has given way to the politics of “white grievance” championed by President Trump.

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@newsbysamuels.bsky.social, @camcgrady.bsky.social‬ and professor Yohuru Williams join to talk about who George Floyd was and where the struggle for racial justice is headed.

❓ What does George Floyd's life and death mean to you five years later?

The “wet blanket” analogy wasn’t too far off tho

TONIGHT at 8pm ET: @camcgrady.bsky.social

Glad to hear Falcons fans thriving in LA

At Black Colleges, a Stubborn Gender Enrollment Gap Keeps Growing (Gift Article) Only 19 percent of students at Howard University are Black men, whose enrollment levels at four-year colleges have plummeted across the board.

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.’ Immigrant-Rights Advocate Arrested in Colorado. 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.

“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...

Trump wants it known as the Gulf of America. How American is the gulf? Oil! Rockets! Migrants! Margaritavilles! Meet us at the edge of a nation on the brink.

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/...

L. Clifford Davis, Who Fought to Desegregate Texas Schools, Dies at 100 As a civil rights lawyer who faced resistance and threats, he challenged school districts that tried to defy the Supreme Court’s 1954 ban on school segregation.

Fort Worth legend. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...

D’Wayne Wiggins, One Third of the R&B Group Tony! Toni! Toné!, Dies at 64 As a paragon of the New Jack Swing sound, the band recorded three platinum albums and a slew of hits, including “Feels Good.”

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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2fifty | Texas Style BBQ with a pinch of the tropics | MD & DC We're a wood-only smokehouse with a Texas-Style BBQ and a pinch of the tropics serving Maryland & Washington DC. All wood? All good!

@joelanderson.bsky.social best Texas style BBQ is at the 2Fifty near UMaryland campus www.2fiftybbq.com

Amid Trump’s Anti-Diversity Effort, Black History Month Takes On New Meaning Feb. 1 marks the first day of Black History Month, and suddenly the study of the Black experience may feel like an act of defiance.

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.

The Search for Lessons in Trump’s Return on Martin Luther King Day The dual celebrations of a second Trump inauguration and the civil rights leader’s birth raise profound questions about Black leadership and progress toward the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream...

Today is MLK Day as Trump acknowledged. I talked to Martin Luther King III about it: “Dad has been used like a smorgasbord…” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/u...