When Texas A&M announced that Kathleen McElroy, a respected journalist with a long career, would spearhead the revival of the journalism program, there was fanfare. But, within days, McElroy said she was told there was a target on her back. https://t.co/Dg7CcD7p8O
@GarlandPD No matter what the incident was, the video shows the SRO slamming down a student who was standing to the side. The officer chose to use force against someone who was neither a threat to the school, to the officer, nor to other students. What the SRO did to her was unacceptable
@gisdnews@GarlandPD@NGHS_Raiders No matter what the incident was, the video shows the SRO slamming down a student who was standing to the side. The officer chose to use force against someone who was neither a threat to the school, to the officer, nor to other students. What the SRO did to her was unacceptable
For @thisisinsider, I reported on the tenant-landlord dispute between Frank Ferrer, drummer for the legendary rock band @gunsnroses, and the tenants at his La Quinta property near Coachella. The City of La Quinta has declared the property a public nuisance https://t.co/tDzMYmwapo
More than 3/4ths all journalists in the US are white.
The "whitest" beats:
-Energy and the environment (84% white)
-Sports (82% white)
This is per new data from @pewjournalism
https://t.co/oBW2Py6Z2L
ICYMI: Black farmers in a west Tennessee community are engaged in the latest fight for their land, as @myTDOT exercise's eminent domain for Ford Blue Oval City.
https://t.co/SVS678ilvs
A Shelby County commissioner said Nashville leaders are threatening to take away funding from Memphis and other Shelby County projects if the county commission decides to reinstate expelled state Rep. Justin J. Pearson
https://t.co/mUTVtgNt1y
BREAKING: A Shelby County commissioner told @FOX13Memphis on Friday that Nashville leaders are threatening to take away funding from Memphis and other Shelby County projects if the county commission decides to reinstate expelled @Justinjpearson
https://t.co/698BZ1VZDZ?
Wow: Tennessee state Rep. Justin Jones, one of the Dems that the GOP is trying to expel from state legislature to protesting gun violence, calls out his colleagues on the floor
‘For years, one of your colleagues, an admitted child molester, sat in this chamber – no expulsion’
Days after Mila Jackson’s birth, her mother took Mila and her two brothers on what should have been a routine visit to the pediatrician. Instead, baby Mila was ripped away from her parents' loving care by Dallas CPS, and her father was arrested. 🧵
Taking my editor hat off, and putting on my Tennessean hat. Most Thursdays this year, I do a rundown on legislative happenings. Today, the Tennessee General Assembly expelled two democratically-elected young Black men,