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Alicia Montgomery

23 days

Thanks to everyone who read my piece about #NPR , and found it helpful. I wanted to share a few thoughts about what's harmful about the false "wokeness" narrative about the place. via @slate

NPR Is a Mess. But “Wokeness” Isn’t the Problem.

The real story behind the public broadcaster’s woes.

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Louisville police shot Breonna Taylor to death in her home 5 months ago. Cameron is responsible for the investigation. No arrests have been made.

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Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron slams Joe Biden in his RNC remarks: "Mr. Vice President, look at me, I am Black. We are not all the same, sir. I am not in chains. My mind is my own. And you can't tell me how to vote because of the color of my skin"

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@tylerevansokay Millennials, depending on their age, have lived through 9/11, a 20 yr war, a pandemic, an attempted coup, 4 recessions, and a restructuring of the economy led by boomers and Xers that leaves many of them in semi-permanent working poverty. Tell the whole truth or leave them alone.

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Many people around the country don't seem to realize that --beyond "official" Washington-- DC is largely a town of Black and brown working class people, many of whom will have to do their jobs in the midst of threatening, violent protesters today.

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We didn’t just lose loved ones. We lost the chance to say goodbye, come and hold their hands in hospital rooms, pray with them, let more light in through their curtains, and the thousand other little things you do to show someone that’s dying that you love them.

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To the millions who have lost a loved one to COVID over the past two years -- what is something you wish more people understood about your experience? And your grief?

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Professional news: I'm now Vice President of Audio @slate . Thanks to my Slate colleagues, who welcomed me at the dawn of the pandemic & supported me through some of the toughest days of my life. And thanks to all my mentors & friends @npr , who supported me all the years before.

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. @timnitGebru on diversity efforts at Google: "I wrote a billion documents, I had a billion meetings. They just tire you out. They meet with you over and over again. They feel good about themselves for meeting with you. They don’t do anything."

Was This Google Ethicist Fired for Doing Her Job?

A leader in the field of ethical A.I. was abruptly let go by the search giant.

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Ripping off a band-aid here. The diversity problem in public media or any media is going to fester as long as there are zero consequences for treating JOC like garbage once they get in the door.

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“Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe." Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

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As an old-school journalist, I always take the word "murder" out of stories about police killings, unless there's a conviction. With bitter relief, I can now write that Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd.

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My aunt was not “nobody”

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"It affects virtually nobody," Trump says of the coronavirus, which has now killed 200,000 Americans and counting

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Small moment of joy. My 10 year old son reading a work email over my shoulder and saying "You forgot the Oxford comma." #nprlife

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@NYTNational When you or your colleagues are caught on camera destroying property, and later lie about, is getting labeled bad guys "unexpected"? Context matters, and the first mention of this incident is abt 15 graphs into this story.

N.C. police chief apologizes for officers destroying medic tent set up for protesters

The Asheville Police Department's police chief said he was "truly sorry" for the incident and it is "something we can learn from."

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Alicia Montgomery

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Saying "I don't know," or "I don't understand. Can you explain it to me?"

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What is a sign of intelligence that most confuse with a sign of stupidity?

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When my aunt died of Covid on Friday, I sent my boss a text, turned off my computer, and spent my weekend grieving. My teammates @slate spent their weekend doing brave, thoughtful coverage. I'm so grateful. via @slate

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2 years

Airlines that dropped mask requirements are now suffering staff shortages due to COVID-19 via @cbsmoneywatch

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If my kid raised up on a cop like this, I'd be identifying his body.

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4 years

To my former colleagues at @wamu885 , @jjyore 's denials about special treatment for Martin Di Caro are false. @andimcdaniel told me about Martin's harassment record in the first week or so after I arrived at the station in October 2016.

Whisper Networks Long Warned Women About A Prominent Local Journalist. Now, They’re Going Public

Whisper networks long warned women about a prominent D.C.-area transportation journalist. Now, they’re going public.

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Alicia Montgomery

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4 years

FWIW: The abusers aren't the whole problem. It's all the ppl protecting them, who ignore dozens of red flags. The enablers are still in their jobs, still getting raises and promotions, still more interested in keeping all that for themselves than doing the right thing.

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4 years

. @npr is filled w/ ppl of integrity, intelligence, dedication...ppl I admire and am proud to know. The leadership should do better in encouraging and protecting THOSE ppl, and living up to the promises it makes to listeners and the country. --30--

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This is maddening on several levels. Tax liens and multiple bankruptcies are framed as "financial troubles," instead of a history of irresponsibility, or feeling entitled to live beyond your means, which are also plausible explanations.

A majority of the people arrested for Capitol riot had a history of financial trouble

A trail of bankruptcies, tax problems and bad debts raises questions for researchers trying to understand the motivations for the attack.

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Alicia Montgomery

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US police three times as likely to use force against leftwing protesters, data finds

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Alicia Montgomery

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2 years

This photo is a choice.

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Gun companies are refocusing their message away from hunting and toward personal safety, including the sale of military-style weapons attractive to mostly young men. Their pitch — rooted in self-defense, machismo and fear — has been remarkably successful.

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"I'm not sad. I don't want your pity. I want change." Letetra Widman, sister of Jacob Blake.

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1/This is Jacob Blake's sister Letetra Widman. Here is her powerful statement. "I am my brother's keeper."

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Alicia Montgomery

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4 years

The media will never know whether calling a lie a lie, or calling Nazis Nazis instead of conservatives or alt right… We will never know if that would’ve changed a vote, or even prepared us to be standing where we are right now because we never tried it.

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4 years

This isn’t about whether it’s good for people who hate him to hear him called a liar. It’s simply the truth. In the media, we’re supposed to the truth, not stand halfway between two groups of powerful people, repeat their words and shrug our shoulders.

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Alicia Montgomery

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Sharing some professional news. I’m thrilled to be joining the innovative team @slate , @slatepodcasts !

Slate Podcasts 🎧

@SlatePodcasts

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Excited to announce that @amontgomery_998 is Slate Podcasts’ new executive producer! Welcome aboard, Alicia. 👏

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Alicia Montgomery

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2 years

@michaelharriot I have about 25 first cousins, and as adults, saving each other from dumb romantic choices is half the job.

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5 years

Forgot I believed this. Thanks #RentLive

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Remembering 2016 and years since when journalists of color who accurately reported on Trump’s racism were dismissed as biased, hysterical, and unfit for the job.

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And another thing. 10+ years ago, this country suffered a foreclosure crisis, which meant LOTS of people --disproportionately black people-- lived through losing or being pushed out of a home. Those folks weren't all rioting in the Capitol.

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@jelani9 Freeda from Insecure

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I value discretion and confidentiality, but using that to allow powerful people to tell self-serving lies is wrong.

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@lostblackboy When a friend says, "Hey you wanna go for drinks?" at the last minute, cat people can say yes and stay out all night. Dog people have to go home. You might as well have a kid.

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Alicia Montgomery

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Uber Will Drive You to the Polls for Free on Election Day @Thrillist

Uber Will Drive You to the Polls for Free on Election Day

Election Day is Tuesday, November 6.

www.thrillist.com

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. @npr is filled w/ ppl of integrity, intelligence, dedication...ppl I admire and am proud to know. The leadership should do better in encouraging and protecting THOSE ppl, and living up to the promises it makes to listeners and the country. --30--

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I still spoke out about the racism and sexism. Years of meetings, memos, earnest conversations, joining committees...the situation got a little better, but the lip service improved tremendously.

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@ThisIsTheRead My heart is with you @kidfury . As Black folks, sometimes we need to be reminded that we are more important than the labor or entertainment or whatever else we provide for others. Please take care of yourself.

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After 2016, when everybody got the story so wrong, lots of media organizations kept the same leader ship, and just did the same thing over and over and over again for the last four years. And here we are.

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Honest question: at what point, what point, do we call a lie a lie?

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I confess, I watched his momma's wedding 30 some years ago, and I would've watched Prince Harry marry Taylor Swift. But I. Was. Not. Prepared. #blackroyalwedding #royalwedding

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This is what @npr does best, not just tell you the story, but what it's like to live through it. #FlintWaterCrisis

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Mother in Flint, Mich.: "I will never trust this water ever again." @arishapiro @npratc

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6 years

If your newsroom just can't figure out how to get more women and POCs on board, start by not letting them be abused, sabotaged and pushed out.

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More colleagues & friends reporting harassment on the job. More bosses reportedly failing to stand up for them: Public Radio Icon John Hockenberry Accused of Harassment via @thecut

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"It's not my job to heal INSERT NAME OF RACIST INSTITUTION HERE." Nikole Hannah Jones, saying what a lot of Black women in academia, media, politics, etc. have been longing to say.

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ICYMI: Sen. Kelly Loeffler didn’t think the WNBA should protest for Black Lives Matter. So players started protesting her. @mirarose88 joined the What Next podcast in October to explain how The Dream fought back. via @slate

Kelly Loeffler Picked the Wrong Fight

The senator took a shot at the WNBA. Players took the ball and started playing with the other guy.

slate.com

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4 years

@NPRKelly @lizzieohreally Well played

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As a Black woman, I’m still shocked that so many people attacked cops and lived to talk about it.

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Amazing tape from @relucasz of Capitol attacker Daniel Rodriguez, asked by FBI about attacking a cop: "What do you want me to say, I Tazed him? Yes." "Why did you Taze him?" "I don't know, I'm a piece of shit... I thought I was gonna be awesome. I thought I was a good guy." @NPR

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In a country where poor people are shamed for trying to buy soda with food stamps, why didn't anyone ask why money troubles didn't stop alleged rioters from traveling (even by private jet) and staying in hotels in the middle of a work week?

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This is the most unexpectedly black thing to happen on the global stage since Barack Obama said “If folks want to pop off and have opinions..." while answering a question about Syria policy. #BlackRoyalWedding

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Why did @DallasPD search a man's house for "narcotics" after one of their own killed him?

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‘They Just Dumped Him Like Trash’: Nursing Homes Evict Vulnerable Residents

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Buckingham Palace banned ethnic minorities from office roles, papers reveal

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@jelani9 Gregg Popovitch

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Always end interviews with, "Was there something I should have asked you about, but didn't?" It's especially helpful when you're asking about personal experience, but it also works with "experts."

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Andi essentially told me that Martin's conduct was terrible, but he was a great reporter. In a follow up meeting days later, @jjyore asked me how I planned to manage Martin's conduct. I asked @jjyore what HE had done about it. The answer was basically nothing.

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Early in my tenure, Martin loudly bullied and berated a female colleague in the newsroom. Having been told about the "Level III" warning, I met w/ @jjyore and pointed out that --under AU policy-- we could have him fired. @jjyore dismissed it out of hand.

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I started to think about all the women who'd been described to me as "difficult" or "not team players" over the years. The overlap between being difficult, and having stood up against abuse was stunning.

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...about reporting it, and having nothing happen. That is, unless they pushed HARD to get the issue addressed. And then, maybe the guy would get a slap on the wrist, a very stern "don't do it again."

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"It would, in fact, be troubling if big tech censored conservative voices for conservative content. What they are doing, in fact, is censoring dishonest voices from dangerous content." @pescami on The Gist podcast via @slate

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In abusive situations, WOC are easy targets. They're more likely to NEED the job. They're less likely to have connections who can protect them. They're more vulnerable to being smeared as "divas," "difficult," or just not ready.

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I worked with many women who were young enough to be my daughters. As a manager, I couldn't tell them to watch out for men who I knew to be harassers. That would breach the privacy of those men.

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I try not to cuss, but I love this.

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A message for today --and every day-- from writer @tanehisicoates on @1a .

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Many Afro-Cubans are challenging the communist regime, and the liberal mythology that the island is a post-racial paradise. @AmaliaDache joins @drjasonjohnson on A Word. #CubaLibre via @slate

Are Cuba’s Failures on Race Fueling the Uprising?

Many Afro-Cubans say racism in Cuba and the U.S. has erased them from the debate over that nation’s future.

slate.com

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Happy to share the first episode of "A Word," the new Slate podcast hosted by @DrJasonJohnson . This week, he talks about the links between white nationalism and the military & law enforcement with @MalcolmNance . via @slate

Why Did So Many Capitol Rioters Turn Out to Be Cops, Military Service Members, or Veterans?

Dozens of rioters brought white privilege—and military or law enforcement experience—to the Capitol in January.

slate.com

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4 years

This isn’t about whether it’s good for people who hate him to hear him called a liar. It’s simply the truth. In the media, we’re supposed to the truth, not stand halfway between two groups of powerful people, repeat their words and shrug our shoulders.

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@audiosand Would the word lie really make a difference. I understand it would feel cathertic but it would be cathertic primarily from people who already hate him. To those in middle I think they understand falsely means lie

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This story, this coverage, this headline is why I'm glad to work at @slate :

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@cxcope You can tell Dickens was paid by the word.

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Within weeks, I had a meeting w/ Martin and @wamu885 's Carey Needham, and I told him directly that whatever he'd done in the past, I wasn't going to tolerate harassment in the newsroom. I thought he'd gotten the message. Reading this story, I know now that I was sorely mistaken.

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Since we're going to be here a while, can we journalists: *Start hiring Latinos in newsrooms and listening to them *Stop pretending racial identity politics doesn't include white people *Never again say that Pennsylvania is in the midwest; it's one of the original 13 colonies

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SERIOUSLY jouros, please qualify definitive statements about the president’s lack of symptoms and general good health with “according to the White House.” We just can’t know how accurate this information is.

Alicia Montgomery

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4 years

Remember, as we report what the president's doctors say about his health that in 2018, his doctor reported his height as 6 ft. 3, even though he'd been listed as 6 ft. 2 up until then.

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"Embroiled in scandal," like you accidentally walked into a sticky web of scandal and couldn't get out, isn't an accurate way to describe years of bullying, sexually harassing or assaulting women, and threatening people who tried to stop you.

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ICYMI: Many white nationalists brought military and law enforcement tactics to the Capitol riot. They learned on the job. @DrJasonJohnson and @MalcolmNance on the debut episode of "A Word...with Jason Johnson." via @slate

Why Did So Many Capitol Rioters Turn Out to Be Cops, Military Service Members, or Veterans?

Dozens of rioters brought white privilege—and military or law enforcement experience—to the Capitol in January.

slate.com

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@MikeMartinezDC

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"The Lies We Tell Ourselves About Race": Brilliant, painfully honest from NPR's @samsanders

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"We're silenced and we're erased on both fronts: in Cuba and the United States, across racial lines, across political lines." @AmaliaDache tells @DrJasonJohnson why many young Afro-Cubans are at the forefront of the resistance. #CubaLibre via @slate

Are Cuba’s Failures on Race Fueling the Uprising?

Many Afro-Cubans say racism in Cuba and the U.S. has erased them from the debate over that nation’s future.

slate.com

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Wondering how many people who tweet about being “over“ Covid restrictions, as if they were skinny jeans or pumpkin spice flavored everything, loved any of the 800k Americans who’ve died, or the millions who became ill.

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I spoke to the Post for this story. But this is not the whole story of what happened at @wamu885 .

Inside WAMU’s long struggle to dismiss a suspected sexual harasser

J.J. Yore tried to oust one of his reporters after repeated complaints. It wasn’t that simple.

www.washingtonpost.com

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@ashtonpittman @tatereeves I'm sick of politicians who attack reporters for asking about sick and dead people --especially children-- during the COVID crisis. Thanks to you and @MSFreePress for your work on this heartbreaking story.

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Responded to order that girls wear dresses on 4th grade picture day by showing up in my brother’s Easter suit, complete with clip on tie.

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@michele_norris This was an incredibly disciplined WNBA effort. Dream players deliberately refrained from using Loeffler's name at all in their statements to deprive her of attention and a victim narrative.

Kelly Loeffler Picked the Wrong Fight

The senator took a shot at the WNBA. Players took the ball and started playing with the other guy.

slate.com

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Democratic Party Leaders: Stop thinking you’ll excite black voters by pointing out racists in the GOP. 1.We know. 2.We told YOU…years ago. 3.If not being a vile racist is all you have to offer, that’s not enough.

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@leylaaa31 @dancingofpens This framing is frustrating, because you can literally Google this information. Avg HOUSEHOLD income in NYC is 68 to 70K.

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Police reportedly arrested public radio’s @josie_huang of @kpcc while she was doing her job. She has been doing amazing work covering anti-police violence protests in SoCal. This isn’t ok.

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Let’s see, the mail is having problems in … Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. via @slate

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For many Afro-Latinos, anti-Blackness starts at home. This Hispanic Heritage Month, @DrJasonJohnson and @ProfessorTKH discuss how Afro-Latinos are claiming their place in the diaspora. via @slate

This Hispanic Heritage Month, More Afro-Latinos Are Demanding Recognition

Did the Black Lives Matter movement inspire more Afro-Latinos to speak out?

slate.com

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. @GeeDee215 If you go into parenthood --adoption or any other way-- thinking your kids are going to be grateful, you should get a dog.

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@mefeater This was the first Cinderella my nieces knew. When they saw a play with a White Cinderella, they said it was fine, but they preferred the "real" one.

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It makes women more vulnerable to sexual harassment. Because of NPR's reputation and range of fierce and brilliant women in its upper ranks, young women come to NPR expecting that they'll be safe and supported.

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Re Complicity: When many media orgs talk about offering diverse groups of people "a seat at the table," what they don't tell you is that --in exchange-- they want your silence when they break the rules, or do harmful, even malicious things to other people, or even to you.

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@tomscocca “We have survived...” except for those five people on Wednesday, the 350,000 who’ve died of Covid, the people killed in the 2019 mass shooting in El Paso, the protesters shot by Kyle Rittenhouse, the worshipers at Tree of Life synagogue…

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"I opened a door...You would have done the same thing." Washingtonian Rahul Dubey. Protesters Trapped Inside Dupont Home Leave Without Arrests | DCist

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Alicia Montgomery

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4 years

If newsrooms were meritocracies, there wouldn’t be such a need for diversity programs. Too many White media leaders who blew the story in 2016 survived to do it again in 2020. The Black, brown and yes, some young white journalists, who got it right would have had those jobs.

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Alicia Montgomery

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Biggie Smalls would've turned 50 today. For more about his music and the rivalry that led to his death, listen to @byjoelanderson 's remarkable work in Slow Burn, Season 3: Biggie & Tupac. #biggie via @slate

How Did a Violent Robbery Turn Tupac Shakur Against His Friend Biggie Smalls?

Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. were murdered within a year of each other. It all began with a shooting at Quad Studios in New York.

slate.com

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Alicia Montgomery

@AMontgomery_998

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@KevinMKruse The subhead on the story is "The mom vote could be key to the 2024 presidential election," as if these moms are representative. If you mean "The conservative white mom vote," you can really just say that.

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Alicia Montgomery

@AMontgomery_998

4 years

I still spoke out about the racism and sexism. Years of meetings, memos, earnest conversations, joining committees...the situation got a little better, but the lip service improved tremendously.

Alicia Montgomery

@AMontgomery_998

4 years

If you advocate too loudly for victims --of bigotry or harassment-- you have to be very careful, or you'll get those labels, too.

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Alicia Montgomery

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3 years

The Breaking News Consumer's Handbook: Active Shooter Edition #boulder via @onthemedia

The Breaking News Consumer's Handbook: Active Shooter Edition | On the Media | WNYC Studios

The rampant misreporting that follows mass shootings is so predictable that OTM has looked at how news consumers can avoid getting bad information.

www.wnycstudios.org

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Alicia Montgomery

@AMontgomery_998

3 years

A tough, necessary read for journalists especially: I Am Breaking My Silence About the Baseball Player Who Raped Me

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Alicia Montgomery

@AMontgomery_998

3 years

The MLB pulled the All Star Game from Atlanta over Georgia's repressive new voting law. On A Word with @drjasonjohnson , activist @MsLaToshaBrown of Black Voters Matter argues that more businesses should join the fight for voting rights. via @slate

Battling Georgia’s Backlash Against Black Voters

Georgia Republicans’ new law hits Black voters and activists hard. Voting power and voting rights are in the balance.

slate.com

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Alicia Montgomery

@AMontgomery_998

2 years

@emarvelous @corinne_fowler @yumcoconutmilk How can anyone who’s paid as a journalist be asking this question?

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Alicia Montgomery

@AMontgomery_998

3 years

Lots of Americans have spent generations enduring lies from politicians, and disappointment after elections. These people ransacked the Capitol, threatened the lives of our legislators, attacked cops. An officer and 4 others are dead.

Ezra Klein

@ezraklein

3 years

These people were lied to, over and over, by officials at the highest levels of the American government, people with power and, presumably, knowledge. They trusted the President, and Republican members of Congress, to tell them the truth, and they believed what they were told.

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Alicia Montgomery

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5 years

@tayari @natalieisonline Horton Hears a Who. Great for journalists. If someone powerless is being hurt, you keep telling their story and telling it and telling it and telling it until someone listens

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Alicia Montgomery

@AMontgomery_998

6 years

@victoriasanusi If you do excellent journalism, except re POC, LGBTQ people, the disabled, the working class, and people who don't live on the coasts, then you don't do excellent journalism.

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Alicia Montgomery

@AMontgomery_998

8 years

Famous = you can't buy your own groceries; #NPRFamous = people at Whole Foods do a double take when they hear you.

Ellen Wu 吳迪安

@ellendwu

8 years

Would you rather be famous or NPR famous

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