White House Correspondent @nytimes. B-More born. @baltimoresun bred. @edwriters forever. Human. Mommy.
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Please direct your attention to Baltimore students in a school with one of city's highest poverty rates raising $ for hurricane victims
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DACA recipient on @CNN few mins ago: “This is not a long-term solution. Trump could choose to rescind this program tomorrow. He knows how to do it. The Supreme Court is telling him. So we are not safe. So I’m going to celebrate today, but I am going to fight tomorrow.”
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“She was yelling at me, saying, ‘Why are you whispering? You don’t have to whisper,’ and I was telling her, ‘Ma’am, he’s still in the store. He’s shooting. I’m scared for my life. I don’t want him to hear me. She got mad at me, hung up in my face.” trib.al/Ebhokbn
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“Children as young as 7 and 8, many of them wearing clothes caked with snot and tears, are caring for infants they’ve just met.Toddlers without diapers are relieving themselves in their pants. Teenage mothers are wearing clothes stained with breast milk.”
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My husband has been reporting in Uvalde since Wednesday and, based on our phone calls, I just want to urge everyone to check on your journalist friends/family/colleagues covering this horrific tragedy.
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That’s not how this works...
Message from Cleveland police tonight: “No media is allowed downtown unless they are inside their place of business. Period.”
@CLEpolice
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“You want a revolution? I want a revelation.”
Little something to break up your Doomscrolling. Happy Costume Day!
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Also, I’m still trying to figure out how @nhannahjones put together an amazing tenure portfolio while juggling multiple books and related projects, a full-time job, motherhood and friendship duties that included literally making sure my kids ate while I was grieving.
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Husband called from our neighborhood Popeyes — where I thought maybe things had calmed down and we’d be able to get a sandwich — and reported that it resembled a scene out of “Bird Box,” something about a fight and a car stuck in grass, and then hung up.
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“Mr. Trump has essentially become a bystander as school superintendents, sports commissioners, college presidents, governors and business owners across the country take it upon themselves to shut down much of American life...”
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“The moment anyone tries to demean or degrade you in any way, you have to know how great you are. Nobody would bother to beat you down if you were not a threat.”
- Cicely Tyson, the ancestor
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“Carol Coates battled covid-19 at the same time as the president. But instead of a suite at Walter Reed, the 46-year-old Black teacher self-isolated in the basement...And instead of the experimental cocktail that Trump was given, she received cards from her fifth-grade students.”
A Black family battled covid-19 at the same time as Trump.
It devastated them. wapo.st/2HFFlku
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"...it appears Mr. Cummings may be the first African-American lawmaker to lie in state in the Capitol."
"Cummings to Lie in State in the Capitol:" nyti.ms/33Ihl5N
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The lead on this obit 😭
“They asked Katherine Johnson for the moon, and she gave it to them.”
Katherine Johnson Dies at 101; Mathematician Broke Barriers at NASA
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Hey Guys: Remember when some alleged that affirmative action was the biggest threat to the integrity of the college admissions process.
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“In a letter to the public, Indiana University Health president Dennis Murphy defended the hospital's treatment of Moore and criticized her, writing that the doctors treating the the elderly woman who could barely breathe were "intimidated" by her.”
Wow. blavity.com/president-of-hos…
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Me and my husband walking around the house, just recounting the morning like:
“They said she didn’t have a “traditional” academic background…”
“And then she said Ta-Nehisi coming with me…”
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“Why, when somebody has won millions more votes than their opponent, are we still deliberating over 10,000 votes here, 5,000 votes there?” nytimes.com/article/popular-…
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I just cannot shake that kids are jumping in front of bullets to protect their classmates in school.
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Just realized that it was 3 years ago today that I started at the @nytimes. My visitor badge from that day is hanging above my desk, so I looked in my phone to see what I documented & found this photo. I still can’t believe I can walk in there, and they let me write stuff. 😂❤️
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LOL. The governor of MD secured tests by the half-mil today from a different country.
"The governor of Maryland didn't really understand. He didn't really understand what was going on" -- Trump begins the April 20 #TrumpPressBriefing by attacking Republican Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland, who has been critical of the federal coronavirus response.
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And the Oscar for “best local angle” goes to...
Matthew A. Cherry, cut by Ravens in 2006, wins Oscar for Best Animated Short Film as co-creator of ‘Hair Love’
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All of edu-twitter, after we cry and appreciate the beauty of this story:
“Damn, 36?!!”
NO PLACE LIKE HOME: Michael was so excited about joining his forever home by the holidays, he invited his entire 36-student kindergarten class to the adoption hearing! abcn.ws/2PgHH9n
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Antwion Ball, popular Baltimore mathematics teacher, dies of coronavirus complications
“He told Black boys you can be somebody,” said his sister, Shavone Ball. “He told them, once you have an education, it can’t be taken away.”
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Black Journalists Are Exhausted: nytimes.com/2020/05/29/opini…
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Some speculated that Falwell’s decision to reopen the campus in the middle of a pandemic was, at least in part, motivated by not wanting to refund students.
NEW: @LibertyU students file class action suit against Liberty University alleging LU/ Falwell placed “students at severe physical risk and refused to refund thousands of dollars in fees owed to them for the Spring 2020 semester.”
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“Like when you guys put somebody in the car, and you’re protecting their head, you know, the way you put your hand over” their head, he said, putting his hand above his head for emphasis. “I said, ‘You can take the hand away, O.K.?’” nytimes.com/2017/07/29/nyreg…
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Hi! I'm a former foster kid who grew up with an incarcerated parent & was taken in by teachers who both taught special education--one retired as the principal of a K-12 special education school-- and my kids attend a (wonderful) public school in Baltimore City.
But go off.
Important to remember that the author of this article (& any other corporate journalist) will likely have their children in elite private schools that pre-screen for these behaviors so they don't have to worry about their kids education being negatively impacted by bad behavior.
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This story is straight 🔥
"Tubman never waited for a man to affirm her.
Tubman reveled in defying men, defying governments, defying slavery, defying Confederate armies and slave catchers who put a $40,000 bounty on her head."
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Dr. Anthony Fauci serves as surprise guest speaker for Johns Hopkins virtual commencement: baltimoresun.com/coronavirus…
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DeVos to Be Investigated for Potential Violation of Ethics Law - The New York Times nytimes.com/2020/09/22/us/po…
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The President of the United States is using people’s kids, mothers, fathers, who have died on the streets of Baltimore as a punchline at a campaign rally.
Trump has now made shitting on Baltimore part of his campaign speeches. Echoing someone in the crowd, he claims the homicide rate is higher in the city than Afghanistan.
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Nah. That’s just Oprah. All day, everyday. nitter.app/akeemstweets/status/95…
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“It’s hard to breathe without her. It’s hard to think without her. She was so much like me it’s unreal. But she was a much better version.” thecut.com/2020/06/breonna-t…
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The disproportionate discipline rates of Black boys have long dominated discussions about the harmful effects of punitive discipline policies, often overshadowing a brewing crisis: "We are in a battle for the souls of Black Girls."
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Journalism.
Kamala Harris was born in California and is eligible for both the vice presidency and presidency. President Trump yesterday gave credence to a false and racist conspiracy theory that she's not eligible. apne.ws/HpQXGLQ
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Guys: remember the @IPROMISESchool, started by LeBron James, I wrote about. Well, they saw families struggling with homelessness. So they’re partnering with a hotel to house families just blocks from the school. Basically: “It takes a village, so let’s build the village.”
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So. This has all been really overwhelming. Thank you for your kind words & support, esp for my girl. But also for my mommy. She “slipped away,” as the nurse said. There was no obituary, no funeral—only my assurance that she’d live on thru us. She’d be tickled. Bless you all.
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Ummm.....
Never in the history of this country has it been legal to make people work for free but that’s what’s happening to federal employees. This can never happen again.
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This is just the lede.
“Erick Ortiz lay in a hospital bed just before Thanksgiving, struggling to breathe. Unable to see his family, he texted his wife, concerned about his high school chemistry students: “Have they assigned a sub for my classes?”’ nytimes.com/2021/01/27/us/te…
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Your periodic reminder that Nancy Pelosi is from Baltimore.
“I hope he comes, I’m going to punch him out ... I’m going to punch him out, I’m going to go to jail, and I’m going to be happy.”
— House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s just-revealed response to the prospect of former President Trump potentially marching to the Capitol on January 6th.
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“On the front lines of the bloody campaign to end Jim Crow laws...Mr. Lewis was a valiant stalwart of the civil rights movement and the last surviving speaker at the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963.” nytimes.com/2020/07/17/us/jo…
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Fauci:
"If you have a situation in which you don't have a good control over an outbreak and you allow children to gather together, they likely will get infected, and if they get infected, the likelihood they will bring the infection home. That really is a risk."
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“But there is a clear problem here: Arbery had committed no offense. His only offense, the thing that drew suspicion, was that he was black and male and running through these white men's neighborhood.”
Opinion | The Killing of Ahmaud Arbery nytimes.com/2020/05/06/opini…
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“My client threw up in the ladies room following the sentencing,” Mr. Cohen said in an email, adding that “if Chris Belter was not a white defendant from a rich and influential family” he “would surely have been sentenced to prison.”
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Liberty officials accuse outsiders of playing politics. Within the school, there are signs of panic. “I’m not allowed to talk to you because I’m an employee here,” one student living on campus wrote in an email. But, he pleaded, “we need help to go home." nyti.ms/2UKAmlh
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Denied a diploma, April Dunn made sure other students with disabilities had options. She died of covid-19. - The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/nation/20…
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ICE announces that foreign students attending colleges that go online-only either have to transfer to a school offering in-person instruction or leave the country...
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We show up when a school is hailed a success, or when it is deemed a failure. It is rare, and considered a risk, when we show up as they’re just starting to figure it all out. I think that should change.
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Alright, alright one more because I just got the print paper and had to catch my breath when I opened it.
You go, @nytimes. You go. 👏🏾🙏🏾
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“The situation is a reminder that no matter the case, no matter the controversy, no matter the initial victims, we will always find a way to make sure black women feel our wrath with nobody to defend them but themselves.”
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Rashida Jones, replacing Phil Griffin at MSNBC, will be first Black woman to run a cable news network - The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/media/202…
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Thank you, @nytimes. I was a 5-year-old heading into an inner-city school in Baltimore the year you branded us the next generation of burdens.
The editorial board of @nytimes comes to grips with its own past in spreading racist myths and panic about so-called “crack babies.” nytimes.com/interactive/2018…
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I haven’t seen my husband, a TV news producer, for more than 2 hours —at most— since Tuesday. He is downstairs.
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My 5-year-old just now after we got done a work packet her teacher sent home: "O.K., that was phonics. Now, we have snack. And then we put our head down. And then we go get some more air."
--The kids are going to get us through this.
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In my head, there’s a meeting in the future where @maggieNYT says to the president:
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Tears on sight, and about every other page so far.
Congrats, @nhannahjones, on this breathtaking body of work and monumental achievement.
What a gift to history and humanity.
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I would much rather hear what the two ladies behind him are saying....
.@secretarycarson - "There are good things in Baltimore, there are bad things in Baltimore. Baltimore has been in the news a lot lately. I have a special place in my heart for Baltimore and for the people of Baltimore." >> on.wbaltv.com/2ZmZpvT
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Serious question: Do other reporters get emails and messages telling them that they only pursued a story “to make a name for themselves” when they write a sensitive/ controversial piece or is that just female reporters or reporters of color?
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'Canaries in the coal mine.'
This story isn't about the "pro-reopening" movement.
This story isn't about "anti-union" sentiment.
This story is about how the pandemic has tested the resilience of this generation's children like never before. nytimes.com/2021/01/24/us/po…
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Day 5:
My 5-year-old daughter just brought me lunch, and asked if I needed water and a napkin.
"I haven't seen you drink anything today," she scolded, as she headed back downstairs to take care of business.
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“Though he couldn’t have known the angels would come for him before the year was out, Elijah Cummings certainly must have been secure in the knowledge that he did all he could to stand up for his beliefs. We are.”
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Don’t know what story the president read, but mine accurately reported that the Education Department cut funding for hundreds of rural schools — a decision that was reversed yesterday, and confirmed by DeVos when she testified before Congress today. nytimes.com/2020/03/04/us/po…
The Department of Education is NOT closing hundreds of schools in rural areas of our Country. This is just more Fake News. We are investing greatly in our schools, and always will!
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Walked in complaining about how inconvenient it was for school plays to be scheduled in the middle of the day.
[Sees baby boy center-stage waving]
Walked out wiping away tears, complaining about how there should’ve been more school plays this year.
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My last story of the year comes out of Bethlehem, PA, where this fall a courageous principal, and his staff and students, allowed me tell one of the most important stories of our time.
The Students Returned, but the Fallout From a Long Disruption Remained nytimes.com/2021/12/24/us/po…
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Meet Yumi Hogan, Maryland first lady who helped broker Korean test-kit deal - The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/local/md-…
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It was five years ago today that I started at The New York Times.
I am grateful for every day, every story that I contribute to our consciousness.
My latest was a feat: The story of how Ketanji Brown Jackson navigated her way from Harvard to history nytimes.com/2022/03/20/us/po…
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The child who made me a mommy turned 6 this weekend.
She said that all she wanted for her birthday was to be a mermaid.
So here we are.
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So...on the same day the president was railing against C.D.C. guidelines on reopening schools, it turns out a special task force had compiled & circulated said guidance, along with best practices from across the country, that directly contradicted him. nytimes.com/2020/07/10/us/po…
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Just happened:
A bipartisan majority in the Senate voted to overturn an Education Department rule that would make it more difficult for students swindled by colleges to obtain loan forgiveness.
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A 5-year-old boy's entire kindergarten class showed up for his adoption hearing - CNN cnn.com/2019/12/05/us/michig…
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“You hear the stories about the health care workers — well we’re on the front lines, too. We’re doing something that’s bigger than what we can imagine right now.”
Coronavirus Turns School Cafeterias into Soup Kitchens - The New York Times nytimes.com/2020/04/19/us/po…
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“We are disappointed that Liberty University would decide to go after a freelance journalist because its officials were unhappy with press coverage of the university’s decision to convene classes in the midst of the pandemic.”
- NYT lawyer
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Zyahna Bryant: The girl who brought down Robert E. Lee statue - The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/local/zya…
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Sentimental programming note: It was six years ago today that I was hired to cover education for The Times. After overcoming my terror and impostor syndrome, I had a dream run covering the best beat --at any paper, period. But my time on the education beat has come to an end.
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On the one-month anniversary of losing my mother, I wrote about the hardest decision I've made since becoming one myself. Be kind to yourselves and each other, y'all.
How We Decided to Send Our Daughter Back to School nytimes.com/2021/02/10/us/co…
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Louder for the people in the back.
I'll say it y'all: The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated a lot of problems facing public schools — but it didn't create most of them.
Most of the inequities existed long before the pandemic. The only difference is who was affected and who was paying attention.
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"He did the best with what he was given, what Baltimore gave him."
This is the most powerful thing I've read in a long time.
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Baltimore to Stop Prosecuting Marijuana Possession Cases: nyti.ms/2HFUwJR
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An Arizona superintendent on safely reopening schools: 'It's a fantasy' - The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/nation/20…
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Ok— watch this too, between the tears 😩😂😭
One of my favorite @nbcsnl Black Jeopardy moments.
#ChadwickBoseman
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