Equal Justice Initiative, senior staff writer. Former NYT national reporter, contributing senior editor, BU Today, Bostonia.
Philadelphia, PA
Joined August 2010
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Lamar Smith was one of many Black leaders murdered in the 20th century in the South who risked their lives to ensure that Black Americans could exercise their constitutional right to vote in places where that right had been denied to them for generations. eji.org/news/the-history-of-…
The History of Violent Opposition to Black Political Participation eji.org/news/the-history-of-…
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Saida Grundy Wins Race, Gender, and Class Book Award From the American Sociology Association jbhe.com/2024/06/saida-grund… via @jbhedotcom BRAVA, @saigrundy
California’s Alien Land Laws eji.org/news/californias-ali…
Historians @SharronWConrad and @EllenFitzp remember #JFK’s “remarkable televised speech on civil rights,” on June 11, 1963, “the first presidential address,” they write, “condemning at length #segregation as a moral wrong, unworthy of a great country.”
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Still today, no one—no local or state officials or the media—has ever apologized to Mr. Thompson or Mr. Simpson or their families, or compensated them for violating their rights.
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"I always sit around and wonder if this hadn’t happened to me, you know, what could I have turned out to be?" Mr. Thompson later told his brother. "It just destroyed our life.”
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Sixty-five years ago, police in Monroe, North Carolina, arrested, jailed, and beat two Black children after a white girl kissed them on the cheek. eji.org/news/the-kiss/ eji.org/news/the-kiss/
Sara Rimer retweeted
Could the Threads logo be an @ symbol? If so, it's yet another slight to the long suffering asterisk, which I detail in @mcsweeneys #AsteriskUnderappreciated @BethTeitell
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Great summer read by@bethteitell #Pickleball is bursting onto the stage, screen, and reality TV bostonglobe.com/2023/08/14/a… via @BostonGlobe
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We have a student on Maui. I talked to her and wrote a thing. bu.edu/articles/2023/maui-na…
What a beautiful essay on baseball and getting older by the great 😆@Dan_Shaughnessy bostonglobe.com/2023/08/11/s… via @BostonGlobe
Sara Rimer retweeted
Horrible decision today, but glad that Professors @emihouh and Mary Campbell and I could add to Justice Sotomayor’s dissent with our article.
Dean & #BULawProf @aonwuachi's work coauthored with @emihouh (@UCincinnatiLaw) & Mary Campbell (@TAMUArtSci) cited in Justice Sotomayor's SFFA dissent on p57. Full @CalifLRev paper "Cracking the Egg: Which Came First - Stigma or #AffirmativeAction?" here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
Sara Rimer retweeted
It is so tiring & demoralizing to continuously declare that I'm hearing impaired....having to ask people (repeatedly) to speak up in meetings, to explain I'm the one that turned on Zoom closed captions, etc.
@NPRKelly you know what I'm feeling?
#inclusivity
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Getting back to my New England days with this bizarre story: inquirer.com/news/philadelph…
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This @zoegberg story is nuts.
"At midnight before the tour, Patten texted Scannapieco, 'Please have fresh coffee (with milk and sugar) and the best croissant in Philadelphia ready for me upon arrival,' he wrote. 'Director Thorsen likes Diet Coke.' inquirer.com/news/philadelph…
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And our first review is in! @KirkusReviews calls 'Jews in the Garden' "an intriguing look into a little-understood and largely unrecognized part of Holocaust history." Congrats, @judyrakowsky! Coming July 11 from @Sourcebooks
Can’t wait to read @judyrakowsky’s book, from which this spellbinding piece is excerpted. Searching for Jewish Holocaust survivor in Poland bostonglobe.com/2023/05/31/m… via @BostonGlobe
