Melvin McCray

After three decades of storytelling at ABC News/Time Inc. and teaching the craft at Columbia Journalism, I’ve finally found my Tweet spot.

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@MHarrisPerry @jameshperry Peace and blessings to both of you!

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@TheRevAl My condolences. As Rev. Bill Jones would say, “He’s gone on to glory.”

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Let's honor a quartet of trailblazing Black women scientists. We combine women’s history and a drive to increase COVID-19 vaccination rates in the African American community. Feel free to Share! https://t.co/8LfoDSgZ3W
Press release: https://t.co/qxvnMpEfrN #listentothescience

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Looking for positive images of Black men? Look no further. Long Journey Forward: Black Men In Passage at the Wilmer Jennings Gallery (219 2nd Street at Avenue B) aims to please. 44 Black photographers contributed, and 27 were on hand for the opening Jan. 28. Artist talk Feb. 17.

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@MelMcCray and 43 Black photographers are exhibiting at the Wilmer Jennings Gallery 219 East 2nd Street at Avenue B, New York City: Long Journey Forward: Black Men in Passage. January 24 to March 9, 2024. Reception on Sunday, January 28, from 3 to 6 PM. https://t.co/enZp9J6lsr

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Sister Citizen Talks: MSNBC's The ReidOut Host Joy Reid Talks Politics https://t.co/Z8G0aLHLR6

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@MHarrisPerry @TheTakeaway I loved you on the @TheTakeaway. I can't wait to see your next act.

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The youngest @PolkAwards recipient is Stanford freshman Theo Baker, @StanfordDaily, for uncovering allegations that pioneering research co-authored by Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne was partly supported by manipulated imagery. Baker's speech is at https://t.co/tfO7MYXEPg

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@MHarrisPerry Sending up prayers!!!

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My friend NYU Prof. Deborah Willis and co-author, @DrCherylFinley, published an extraordinary book, Free as they want to be: Artists Committed to Memory (https://t.co/c7BvpcU9Bb) & were at SoHarlem (https://t.co/V3nXSxdUpM) https://t.co/VppEmGOcaG. @adamadelphine @yelaineartspace

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@MHarrisPerry @jameshperry Congratulations!!!

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@MHarrisPerry Go Parker!!! Have a wonderful Junior year.

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@MHarrisPerry @jameshperry Stay strong my sister. Sending you healing vibrations. Big ups to @jameshperry.

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The podcast @longform devotes a week of programs to interviews with winners of the prestigious @PolkAwards. @ClarissaWard, Chief Internat’l Correspondent for @CNN, reveals how she balances danger and common sense while covering the fall of Afghanistan. https://t.co/QbxR92v1hS

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@giselilla @PolkAwards @propublica @UCBerkley @frontlinepbs I have photos of your handsome colleague but no contact info. Perhaps you could send me his email at [email protected].

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A.C. Thompson of ProPublica accepts the George Polk Award for “American Insurrection” along with his team from PBS’s Frontline and Berkeley Investigative Reporting Program. Expanding his short video to a 90minute doc was pure gold
@PolkAwards @propublica @UCBerkley @frontlinepbs

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@giselilla @PolkAwards @propublica @UCBerkley @frontlinepbs You’re welcome. Thank you for training the next generation of journalists. I did my sowing in the vineyard at Columbia Journslism School for 12 years. It’s wonderful to see young reporters come into their own. Keep up the good work!

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@Abihabib @FrancesRobles @nytimes @PolkAwards You’re welcome. Keep up the good work!

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Maria @Abihabib, @FrancesRobles & staff @nytimes won the @PolkAwards for defying danger to reveal concealed aspects of the murder of Haitian
president Jovenel Moïse. Their detailed accounts attributed the assassination to a plot by drug
traffickers. https://t.co/xLkBH4ZccZ #Haiti

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@PolkAwards & Jane Freiman created the $25,000 Sydney H. Schanberg Prize to honor long-form investigative journalism. Luke Mogelson @NewYorker was its initial recipient for his firsthand coverage of the January 6, 2021 attack on the United States Capitol. https://t.co/BmiGpsiAKd

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@MarbinMiller & @dchangmiami of the Miami
Herald in partnership with ProPublica won the @PolkAwards for exposing the consequence of a 1988 law designed to shelter medical providers from lawsuits by funding lifelong care for severely disabled children. https://t.co/PDIP808bGT