domesticpolichick.bsky.social @domesticpolichick.bsky.social · 15/10/2025As 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." 100
domesticpolichick.bsky.social @domesticpolichick.bsky.social · 14/10/2025I recently coached a group of visiting Russian journalists — reporters whose courage often far exceeds their press freedom under President Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian regime.lnkd.inLinkedInThis link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn 100
domesticpolichick.bsky.social @domesticpolichick.bsky.social · 01/07/2025It'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. 110
domesticpolichick.bsky.social @domesticpolichick.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Outgoing 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." 111
Reposted by @domesticpolichick.bsky.socialOlivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Some 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...cjr.orgJournalists Attest to Experiences of Sexual Misconduct with Wesley LoweryLowery rose to prominence as a reporter and media thinker. Women in the industry say he engaged in sexual harassment and assault. 1463589765
Reposted by @domesticpolichick.bsky.socialThe Emancipator @theemancipator.org · 28/04/2025Colorado 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 🧵 8124
domesticpolichick.bsky.social @domesticpolichick.bsky.social · 27/04/2025As 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...theemancipator.org'Sinners' and the beautiful struggle to belong and surviveThe film celebrates the unsung spirit and soul of Southern Black and Brown communities 192
Reposted by @domesticpolichick.bsky.socialKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/04/2025I 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. 1652078520
Reposted by @domesticpolichick.bsky.socialThe Emancipator @theemancipator.org · 28/03/2025President 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. 🧵 74419
Reposted by @domesticpolichick.bsky.socialThe Emancipator @theemancipator.org · 28/03/2025We, 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. 0143
Reposted by @domesticpolichick.bsky.socialThe Emancipator @theemancipator.org · 28/03/2025It 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. 1124
Reposted by @domesticpolichick.bsky.socialThe Emancipator @theemancipator.org · 21/03/2025President 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...theemancipator.orgOur children are not pawns in Trump’s authoritarian power grabThe president’s efforts threaten to roll back the U.S. education landscape to a Jim Crow-era, apartheid state 2618166
Reposted by @domesticpolichick.bsky.socialThe Emancipator @theemancipator.org · 14/03/2025The real reason Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, sparks outrage: Black women and the right to leisure🧵 🖊️ Halimah Abdullah 56014
Reposted by @domesticpolichick.bsky.socialNicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 05/03/2025“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 #StateofthePeopleopen.substack.comOn dangerous times and "The State of the People"Ahead of the State of the Union, I joined Amber Payne and Ibram X. Kendi of The Emancipator, alongside sociologist Victor Ray. The topic? The Great Resegregation. History would like a word with us. 0219
Reposted by @domesticpolichick.bsky.socialThe Emancipator @theemancipator.org · 25/02/2025With 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 0124
Reposted by @domesticpolichick.bsky.socialThe Emancipator @theemancipator.org · 04/03/2025The 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... 32911
domesticpolichick.bsky.social @domesticpolichick.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Very 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.lnkd.inLinkedInThis link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn 020
Reposted by @domesticpolichick.bsky.socialThe Emancipator @theemancipator.org · 19/02/2025In 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...theemancipator.orgWhen the system is rigged, resistRebellion is often born from ordinary people in everyday spaces. 0347
domesticpolichick.bsky.social @domesticpolichick.bsky.social · 07/02/2025The @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/3Q9yiAsbit.lyThe Emancipator is moving to Howard UniversityAs Ibram X. Kendi moves to the venerated HBCU this summer, the magazine will also begin a new chapter 081
domesticpolichick.bsky.social @domesticpolichick.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Trump’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...theemancipator.orgBlack Americans find a racism respite through ‘Blaxit’Trump’s toxic anti-Black, anti-LGBTQ, anti-immigrant, and anti-woman policies are fueling the current wave of expatriation. 010
domesticpolichick.bsky.social @domesticpolichick.bsky.social · 29/01/2025You 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! 010
domesticpolichick.bsky.social @domesticpolichick.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Whatever “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/3EemR7Qbit.lyEliminating DEI isn't just racist — it's segregationistNew segregationists’ need to use euphemisms shows the weakness of their intellectual position and the Civil Rights Movement’s moral clarity. 021
domesticpolichick.bsky.social @domesticpolichick.bsky.social · 26/01/2025A 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. 120
domesticpolichick.bsky.social @domesticpolichick.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Coronation 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.orgCoronation day on Capitol Hill 010
domesticpolichick.bsky.social @domesticpolichick.bsky.social · 20/01/2025@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...theemancipator.orgHow can Black and Brown communities combine their collective might for the fight ahead?As Donald Trump retakes office, activists, lawmakers, and academics build on Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy of community organizing. 000
domesticpolichick.bsky.social @domesticpolichick.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Queer 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...theemancipator.orgIn defiance of existential threats, these queens crank up the musicQueer nightlife boasts a long tradition of organizing when their most vulnerable community members are in need. 000
Reposted by @domesticpolichick.bsky.socialKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 03/01/2025I 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. 36564891889
domesticpolichick.bsky.social @domesticpolichick.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Perhaps 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...theemancipator.orgThe all-American violence of the Jan. 6 insurrectionThroughout our history, periods of transformative change are inextricably linked to violent uprisings. 000
domesticpolichick.bsky.social @domesticpolichick.bsky.social · 21/12/2024Hello 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...theemancipator.orgMy antiracist journalism journey: How I lost my wings, then reclaimed my skyAfter devastating betrayals on professional and personal fronts, a veteran journalist reclaims her power and her place under the sun. 022
