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Candice Fortman

@cande313.bsky.social
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Detroiter in my heart (but not currently under my feet). Always concerned about the human condition

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Candice Fortman @cande313.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Journalism is increasingly pushing reporters of color out of the industry objectivejournalism.org/2026/06/joc-...
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Journalists of color face an industry that doesn't love them back
Increased safety risks and an inability to culturally and financially value their labor are pushing journalists of color out of the field.
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Candice Fortman @cande313.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. (@eji.org) calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...
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May 27, 1892 | White Mob Destroys Office of Ida B. Wells's Memphis Newspaper
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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Candice Fortman @cande313.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
‘Intersectionality’ scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw thinks it’s time for everyone to talk back 19thnews.org/2026/05/inte... via @19thnews.org
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‘Intersectionality’ scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw thinks it’s time for everyone to talk back
In a new memoir, the legal expert shares how her experiences as a Black woman gave rise to frameworks the far-right has tried to weaponize.
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Candice Fortman @cande313.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
To be at a hotel conference is to be cold, freezing in fact.
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Candice Fortman @cande313.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Dear graduates, Congratulations! I am so very proud of you. Also, steam those damn robes!
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Candice Fortman @cande313.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Reporter's Notebook: The teenager tracking ICE in California's strawberry fields open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...
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Reporter's Notebook: The teenager tracking ICE in California's strawberry fields
He deferred college to protect the undocumented farmworkers who feed the country. Here is what I saw on the ground.
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Candice Fortman @cande313.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
"The question KCUR is asking is not a new question. It is the question the white press has always asked about people who fight for Black freedom." kansascitydefender.com/propagandaob...
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KCUR Not Sure How to Feel About Ending Slavery – The Kansas City Defender
Still workshopping its position on chattel slavery, the NPR affiliate invites you into the conversation.
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Julia B. Chan @juliachanb.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
imagine making up new problems to have in the year of our lord 2026
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Candice Fortman @cande313.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Proud.
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Candice Fortman @cande313.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
From ‘Something Else’ to Something Specific: Journalist As Circulator by @JenniferBrandel jskfellows.stanford.edu/from-somethi...
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From “Something Else” to Something Specific: Journalist As Circulator
Dispatches from my JSK Fellowship
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Candice Fortman @cande313.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Failure to Launch: Why Journalism Is Stuck — and How Centering Impact Can Fix It by Lindsay Green-Barber medium.com/p/failure-to...
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Failure to Launch: Why Journalism Is Stuck — and How Centering Impact Can Fix It
This is an abridged version of a keynote talk I gave in Lausanne, Switzerland in late 2025 the launch of OurFrame, a nonprofit impact media…
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Candice Fortman @cande313.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
If you love where you live, find the people who cover it. Find your local newsroom, subscribe, share their work, tell someone why it matters. Our communities are only as informed as the information infrastructure we support. 💛 #LocalNewsDay #Detroit localnewsday.org
Two women, standing in front of a billboard for Outlier Media, an independent non-profit newsroom in Detroit.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Someone sent me this.
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Candice Fortman @cande313.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
How politics and image control destroyed the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative sfstandard.com/2025/06/09/c...
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How politics and PR took over the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Current and former staffers spill on what brought Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's personal philanthropy to abandon its progressive values
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Candice Fortman @cande313.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Journalism in 2026 and the line "a historic first for a sitting president."
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Candice Fortman @cande313.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Special Envoy for the WHAT of the WHO?
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Investigative Post obtained this video of Border Patrol abandoning Nurul Shah Alam, the nearly blind Burmese refugee who was found dead www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/26/t...
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Candice Fortman @cande313.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
www.axios.com/local/detroi...
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Questions swirl over possible ICE detention site near Romulus
Local officials say they lack details on a reported 500-bed ICE detention proposal.
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Candice Fortman @cande313.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Map: Third Places Index in Detroit detroitography.com/2026/02/18/m...
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Map: Third Places Index in Detroit
In the urban planning realm, third places or informal gathering places, are often discussed in relation to creating great places to live and reknitting the urban fabric of communities that have see…
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Candice Fortman @cande313.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
The Rise of Migra Watch Whistles open.substack.com/pub/midwestm...
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The Rise of Migra Watch Whistles
From Chicago to Minneapolis and beyond, residents are using whistles to warn neighbors of ICE activity
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Candice Fortman @cande313.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
‘He gave me my wings’: Jesse Jackson opened doors for Black women in politics 19thnews.org/2026/02/jess... via @19thnews.org
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‘He gave me my wings’: Jesse Jackson opened doors for Black women in politics
Jackson, who died Tuesday, worked to diversify the electorate and brought Black women into Democratic politics who ascended to positions of power.
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Candice Fortman @cande313.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
www.hourdetroit.com/community/to...
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NPR’s Tonya Mosley on Growing Up in Detroit, Working with Terry Gross
Tonya Mosley, the Detroit-born and-raised journalist, shares west side memories and what it’s like working with Terry Gross
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Candice Fortman @cande313.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
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“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...
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Candice Fortman @cande313.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
“A fresh new hell, daily!”
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Candice Fortman @cande313.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Why You Can’t Understand American Authoritarianism Without Understanding Race open.substack.com/pub/antiauth...
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Why You Can’t Understand American Authoritarianism Without Understanding Race
Or: How the War on Black Freedom Became the Infrastructure for War on All of Us
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Journalist Georgia Fort has been released from custody (video @fox9mn.bsky.social)
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Candice Fortman @cande313.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Detroit council member proposes ban on masked law enforcement officers www.metrotimes.com/news/metro-d...
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Detroit council member proposes ban on masked law enforcement officers - Detroit Metro Times
Detroit City Councilwoman Mary Waters on Wednesday announced she is pushing an ordinance that would prohibit local, state, and federal law enforcement officers from wearing masks or other facial cover...
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Candice Fortman @cande313.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Our Responsibility: ICE Violence & "The American Dream" open.substack.com/pub/kiaspeak...
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Our Responsibility: ICE Violence & "The American Dream"
Every Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!
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Candice Fortman @cande313.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
An unfinished mandate of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s legacy mlk50.com/2026/01/19/a...
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An unfinished mandate of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s legacy
An FBI agent poses for a photograph in front of the wreath marking the site of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in Memphis. Photography by Dylan
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Candice Fortman @cande313.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
0 to 100 real quick -Curt Cignatti
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Candice Fortman @cande313.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
My partner for the rest of the night every so often: “they should’ve went for 2…”
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Candice Fortman @cande313.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Oh. No.
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
At this point, it’s definitely the pope.
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Candice Fortman @cande313.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Three days in…
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Candice Fortman @cande313.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
This is the take. www.poynter.org/ethics-trust...
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When powerful people bully the press, they’re really trying to silence the public - Poynter
What looks like a personal attack is often an intimidation tactic aimed at the entire press and the people it serves
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Outlier Media @outliermedia.org · 09/12/2025
Should ICE be allowed to make arrests at state courts? The Michigan Supreme Court wants your opinion. outliermedia.org/ice-agents-a...
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ICE arrests at Michigan courthouses would be banned under new rule
A proposed rule would ban ICE agents from arresting people at Michigan courthouses.
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Candice Fortman @cande313.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
University of Alabama shuts down student magazines for Black students, women students www.whatimreading.net/p/university...
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University of Alabama shuts down student magazines for Black students, women students
University officials told editors of Alice and Nineteen Fifty-Six that they believed they were out of compliance with Trump administration guidance on anti-DEI policies.
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Candice Fortman @cande313.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
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Immigration agents arrest two Detroit teens, now held in ICE facility
Immigration agents arrested two teenagers and their parents in Detroit and took them to a Texas ICE detention facility.
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Senator Elissa Slotkin @slotkin.senate.gov · 22/11/2025
From a spokesperson for U.S. Senator Elissa Slotkin:
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Candice Fortman @cande313.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
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ICE in schools: How Detroit students are affected
As ICE targets schools in immigration raids, Detroit students are staying home, according to attendance data.
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 12/11/2025
Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.
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Emily Ramshaw @eramshaw.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
The key signature is expected from the newest member of the House, Democratic Rep. Adelita Grijalva of Arizona, who will be sworn into the House on Wednesday, more than seven weeks after she won a special election for the seat held by her late father, former Rep. Raúl Grijalva.
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The push to release the Epstein files is set to move forward
The key signature on a discharge petition is expected from the newest member of the House, Democratic Rep. Adelita Grijalva of Arizona, who will be sworn in on Wednesday.
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Baltimore Beat @baltimorebeat.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Trailer | "The Beat Goes On: The Story of Baltimore Beat" baltimorebeat.com/trailer-the-...
Tawanda Jones, a Black woman with wavy dark hair, sits in a chair being interviewed by a film crew.
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Candice Fortman @cande313.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
A few mins ago: Let me see what’s happening with the Lions…
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 08/11/2025
“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
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Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility
In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...
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Eva Dandridge @crushedvelvet.blacksky.app · 26/10/2025
Ayyyyyyyeeeeeeeee
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Ninety Three ‘Til Infinity And Beyoncé @misstiffybaby.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Silkk, my offbeat KING
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