Jamil Smith جميل كريم

Faculty lecturer, @UCBerkeley Journalism. Columnist, @GuardianUS. Writer, editor, producer, and audio host. Thinking about identity, politics, and power.

[Jamil Smith جميل كريم @JamilSmith]

Montgomery Square, the newest @eji_org Legacy Site, memorializes the Montgomery bus boycott and modern Civil Rights Movement. It is also a warning to all of us. I talked with Bryan Stevenson about memory, erasure, and what history demands for @GuardianUS. https://t.co/hjUol9dwvk

[Jamil Smith جميل كريم @JamilSmith]

Montgomery Square, the newest @eji_org Legacy Site, memorializes the Montgomery bus boycott and modern Civil Rights Movement. It is also a warning to all of us. I talked with Bryan Stevenson about memory, erasure, and what history demands for @GuardianUS. https://t.co/hjUol9dwvk

[Jamil Smith جميل كريم @JamilSmith]

@byjoelanderson @Haleaziz Same here. Best day of my life as a fan.

[Jamil Smith جميل كريم @JamilSmith]

“Juneteenth is the closest thing there is to an honest Independence Day. Yet… I view this holiday somewhat mournfully. It marks a precise tipping point when America had a choice to go right and failed. Emancipation was not freedom, and it never has been.”

[Rolling Stone @RollingStone]

As Juneteenth falls during this American racial reckoning, what are we truly celebrating? Read @JamilSmith on why emancipation is not freedom https://t.co/Ig2pn9Flfp

[Jamil Smith جميل كريم @JamilSmith]

Watch the interview here. https://t.co/fFKRoh85BU

[Jamil Smith جميل كريم @JamilSmith]

"There was a thumb on the scale for the president’s version of events that I felt was a level of political influence that I had never seen in 37 years at CBS News," @ScottPelley told @LuluGNavarro. https://t.co/Q3z2cVKuEk

[Jamil Smith جميل كريم @JamilSmith]

“The effort to destroy Black political power in the South is among the greatest betrayals of Black Americans by the federal government in living memory.” You must read this by @MaraGay. https://t.co/8zJCAErO49

[Jamil Smith جميل كريم @JamilSmith]

@DanielOyefusi Royer switches to 88, Gabriel takes his 18, problem solved.

[Jamil Smith جميل كريم @JamilSmith]

Mississippi’s governor referred to Bennie Thompson’s time in Congress as a “reign of terror.”

Who is terrified, exactly? And of what? The idea that a state’s Black citizens can choose who represents them?

Read my new column for @GuardianUS.
https://t.co/sd0YN8MJjI

[Jesse Rodriguez @JesseRodriguez]

There were around 30 attorneys in the DOJ’s Voting Section on the day of Donald Trump’s second inauguration. Three months later, all but two were gone. Now the election deniers are in control. https://t.co/rulgvf15XH

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

The Republican Party has become a collection of arsonists targeting every part of civil society, liberalism and democracy. What unites them all, however, is corrupting the electoral process. https://t.co/Ejx2m6lg8P

[Jamil Smith جميل كريم @JamilSmith]

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is all but dead. We’re going to need a new one. My latest column for @GuardianUS, in which I argue that the next VRA must include a total ban on federal gerrymandering. https://t.co/W08iF2sS05

[ABC News @ABC]

Elon Musk’s DOGE “blatantly used” race, gender and other protected characteristics to execute the largest mass termination of federal grants in the history of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal judge ruled on Thursday. https://t.co/hwzwfkkLBS

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

"Looking back now, it’s clear that the desire to undo the Civil Rights Era — and even restore the Confederacy to a place of honor — never disappeared. It was sometimes set to the side and reshaped, but they kept the fire burning with unwavering attention." https://t.co/FRwrXS0zSx

[Jamil Smith جميل كريم @JamilSmith]

The Voting Rights Act existed because America could not be trusted. The Supreme Court just told us to trust it anyway. I don’t. My latest for @GuardianUS. https://t.co/b7SCKMzRK0

[Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat]

A holistic, coordinated, and multi level effort to wreck US science. Ask why and who benefits from it.

[Jamil Smith جميل كريم @JamilSmith]

@orskyai @AdamSchefter They actually drafted a Plan B in the very next round: Austin Barber. Do you have any idea what you’re talking about, or is being needlessly angry your kink?

[ProPublica @propublica]

Income isn’t supposed to play a role in how much housing assistance FEMA gives families. But in some N.C. counties, the highest-income homeowners received two to three times as much money after Hurricane Helene as those with lower incomes.
https://t.co/X3xUwFvAf1