For my journalism residency, I spent 11 weeks in Johannesburg, South Africa at @dailymaverick’s print paper. There, I pitched and wrote my own weekly features and led two print-exclusive spreads geared toward kids and teens. Here are some highlights🧵!
Hamdan Ballal — the co-director of No Other Land — has been kidnapped and beaten (and allegedly lynched). The fact that there is barely any coverage of this is horrifying.
The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.
I'm trying to save them.
You can find the deleted docs at https://t.co/8XlteewbRp - I'll be adding more over the weekend.
BREAKING: there will be MASS DEPORTATION RAIDS starting on tuesday in chicago & then spreading to other cities!!!
if you see ICE or an ICE van, YELL out “la migra” as LOUD as you can. be disruptive about it. warn our communities. protect our people
I love that people are still discovering this fact every year, and I'll never not amplify it. On behalf of Jewel & all the other Black women behind legendary concepts that never get their credit.
Remember in October when @NYMag published its annual Power Issue with members of the “media elite?" Well, @NYMagUnion thought you might want to hear from media workers themselves.
Fifteen months after the Lahaina fires, working-class residents need more funding to build back.
@Yimingfuu reports for @AsAmNews / @Report4America
https://t.co/W48xFydhx8
The latest US literacy stats have just dropped and they are every bit as grim as you might imagine.
"Approximately 50% of Americans read so poorly that they are unable to perform simple tasks such as reading prescription drug labels"
Read @RebeccaSolnit and absorb that hope is not a bird in the sky you hope lands near you, it’s an active orientation. You find it in the care for someone else or something else outside of yourself. It’s bigger than you. It’s an act of cultivation. Rub two sticks together.