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Reporting Fellow reporter w/ @19thnews | #NCAT ‘20 | #SyracuseU ‘22 🍊

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Morehouse students get $10M of student debt wiped out, thanks to the @StrikeDebt! Go read my story! 👇🏾reckon.news/news/2023/10/mor…

Morehouse students get $10M of student debt wiped out, thanks to the Debt Collective

Today, the Debt Collective, the nation’s first debtor’s union, canceled close to $10 million in student debt for Morehouse College students, a private men’s HBCU in Atlanta.

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Black women, please tell another Black woman in your circle.
Leah Goodridge (@leahfrombklyn) profile pictureLeah Goodridge@leahfrombklyn4 Oct 2025
In case you haven’t heard: Women are suing Pfizer in a class action lawsuit because the birth control shots (Depo-Provera) have been found to cause brain tumors. 1 in 4 women use this birth control. And Black women are prescribed it at double the national rate.
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Target's CEO is stepping down after 11 years at the retailer as sales continue to plunge cnn.com/2025/08/20/business/…

Target’s CEO is stepping down as customers turn away | CNN Business

Target CEO Brian Cornell is stepping down after 11 years at the retailer, as the company faces slumping sales and backlash to its retreat on DEI.

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I am working on a story about what Black families are doing over the summer for childcare & I would love to talk with parents who are putting their kids in free/affordable summer programs or parents asking family members to watch their kids. Please DM me if you would like to chat
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A new $500,000 Mellon grant will allow Georgia State University to research and protect Gullah Geechee heritage in Georgia and South Carolina theguardian.com/news/2025/ap…
Georgia university receives $500,000 grant to preserve Gullah Geechee heritage

Georgia university receives $500,000 grant to preserve Gullah Geechee heritage

GSU will establish the Gullah Geechee Sacred Land Project to research and protect the community and its culture

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White men have made such a mess of this world.
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The Biden administration didn’t need to collect student loans. The Trump administration doesn’t need to either. Student debt isn’t keeping the lights on at the federal government. This is just cruel and doesn’t have to happen.
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Starting May 5, the Department will resume collections to protect taxpayers from shouldering the cost of student loans. Federal student loans are financed by the American people and must be paid back. ow.ly/93x050VEXTL
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After the Eaton Fire, Altadena residents fight to keep out luxury developers nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/eato…
After the Eaton Fire, Altadena residents fight to keep out luxury developers

After the Eaton Fire, Altadena residents fight to keep out luxury developers

Homeowners and renters want to restore their neighborhood’s small-town charm but fear they may not be able to afford it.

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'To love this country, warts and all': Tributes paid to Mia Love, US's first Black woman Republican elected to Congress @AlexisWray_ @19thnews 19thnews.org/2025/03/mia-lov…
Mia Love, first Black Republican woman to serve in Congress, dies at 49

Mia Love, first Black Republican woman to serve in Congress, dies at 49

The daughter of Haitian immigrants, she made history in Utah, serving the state in Congress for four years.

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A graduate of Southern University and member of Omega Psi Phi fraternity has reportedly been arrested and charged with criminal hazing and manslaughter wafb.com/2025/03/07/1-custod…
Former Southern University student arrested in connection with hazing death case posts bond

Former Southern University student arrested in connection with hazing death case posts bond

Caleb McCray is charged with criminal hazing and manslaughter in connection with the death of a Southern University student.

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“If you’re not D9 don’t speak on Caleb Wilson.” You all beat this young man, dropped him off at the hospital & then met up to discuss what lie y’all was going to tell the police. This is murder! Send them to prison!
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Members of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity at Southern University reportedly lied to authorities about where Caleb Wilson’s death occurred. It took place at a warehouse in Baton Rouge when Wilson was punched in the chest and collapsed, not a park wafb.com/2025/03/04/i-team-s…
I-TEAM SOURCES: SU fraternity members lied about where pledge’s death happened

I-TEAM SOURCES: SU fraternity members lied about where pledge’s death happened

Sources with knowledge of the investigation into Southern University Caleb Wilson’s death told the WAFB I-TEAM Tuesday, the story that was initially told to police about Wilson collapsing at a Baton...

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Delta Air Lines offers $30K to each passenger on crash-landed Toronto flight startribune.com/delta-flight…
Delta Air Lines offers $30K to each passenger on crash-landed Toronto flight

Delta Air Lines offers $30K to each passenger on crash-landed Toronto flight

CEO Ed Bastian on Wednesday defended the pilots, saying they are trained to fly in wintry weather.

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Verifying myself for the Journalists of Color slack. journalistsofcolor.us/
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praying for the eagles* *Jalen
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Happy Friday! Welcome to #OnGenderMediaRoundUp. Each week we’re collecting and sharing our favorite gender + politics stories. Here’s our January 24, 2025 weekly round up - genderontheballot.org/weekly…
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Travel canceled, TVs unplugged: How these Black women are facing Inauguration Day. @AlexisWray_, @ejturner02 + Sabreen Dawud report. 19thnews.org/2025/01/black-w…
Travel canceled, TVs unplugged: How these Black women are facing Inauguration Day

Travel canceled, TVs unplugged: How these Black women are facing Inauguration Day

Those who supported Kamala Harris are reframing their January 20th plans with less celebration — but they’re holding on to the potential to believe in what’s next.

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Denny@likethediner7 Jan 2025
today @reckonnews shut down, marking an end to my two years at the newsroom. as one of the very few trans women of color covering LGBTQ politics at a national level—especially rampant anti-trans legislation, i stand by my work with a great deal of reverence 🙂‍↕️ (1/8)
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Spelman sophomore Amel Mohdali tells @inthesetimesmag and @19thnews: “Black voters bear the burden of a lot of things because we’re fighting for a broader movement toward equity, human rights and liberation.” inthesetimes.com/article/hbc…
Pro-Palestine Student Activists at HBCUs Are Divided on How to Vote

Pro-Palestine Student Activists at HBCUs Are Divided on How to Vote

In North Carolina and Georgia, some say they are casting a vote to save our democracy while others say they are withholding theirs to save the world.

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Replying to @jessicastites @inthesetimesmag @19thnews
Such a privilege to work with @19thnews @ajohnston12 @ByFernandaS and most of all reporter @AlexisWray_ on this really thoughtfully reported piece
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