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Writer. Teacher. PhD Candidate studying incarceration, education, & inequality. Author of Counting Descent.

Washington, DC
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    Jul 25

    This launches today! Season one is ten episodes that tackle prosecutors, plea deals, money bail, voter disenfranchisement and much more. Our hope is to provide in-depth insight into how each of these parts of the criminal justice system operate. Subscribe and follow along!

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    "Justice in America” has launched! Our new podcast, hosted by and , is for everyone interested in criminal justice reform—from those new to the system to experts who want to know more. Subscribe today: Follow
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  2. Jul 25

    you can read this incredible poem alongside dozens of other incredible poems in ’s incredible new book which i just read on the plane and which i am now rereading in line at chipotle bc i can’t stop

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  3. Jul 25

    hello, please stop what you’re doing and read this incredible poem by

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    Jul 24

    wrote about R. Kelly's 19-minute confessional "I Admit," the latest addition to a canon of manipulative art from predatory men who paint themselves as flawed heroes

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  5. Jul 25

    That’s the goal! Thanks for listening.

    love the new podcast ! So helpful to have these ideas broken down and interviews with people doing the work.
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    Jul 25

    Emmett Till would have turned 77 today. I’m rereading this incredible poem by .

    I Saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store, Poem by Eve Ewing
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    Jul 24

    Don't be precious about your work. It's not good just because you wrote it. We're not good enough to not practice... Even Baldwin, Morrison, and Hurston practiced. We're not good enough to not practice. –– Kiese Laymon

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    Jul 25

    "Justice in America” has launched! Our new podcast, hosted by and , is for everyone interested in criminal justice reform—from those new to the system to experts who want to know more. Subscribe today: Follow

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    Jul 25

    Anticipating an uneventful summer day, the grad student is blindsided by an email about the upcoming job market.

    LGS is in his apartment. He is on the floor, knocked out of his chair in front of his laptop.
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    Jul 23

    "White supremacy has always been at once a political movement, an armed struggle, and a long con."

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    Jul 25

    On behalf of the & I had the honor to speak with FD200 awardee about faith, Frederick Douglass, and the Fourth of July. Please read & share.

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    Jul 24

    Stacy Abrams: I will make changes to public policy to improve your life in concrete ways. Brian Kemp: I say Merry Christmas, stand for the national anthem, and hate political correctness.

    The closing messages by the D and R candidates in Georgia's primaries kind of say it all about the current mood of the parties. R: D:
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  13. Jul 25

    *Was murdered one town over from my grandfather. Emmett grew up in Chicago and was visiting Mississippi when he was killed.

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  14. Jul 25

    Emmett Till would have been 77 today. He grew up just one town over from my granddad in Mississippi. I think often of how what happened to Emmett could have so easily happened to him. How arbitrary racial violence can be. How a white woman told a lie and then his life was over.

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    Jul 25

    Gun control activist Lucy McBath, whose son was shot and killed in 2012, has won the Democratic nomination in Georgia's 6th Congressional District.

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  16. Jul 25

    And for those asking, I’ll still be on Pod Save the People every week. This podcast is very much in conversation with the topics we discuss over there. They compliment each other really well & I hope you’ll subscribe & listen to both! Tues: Wed:

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    Jul 25

    How I feel about this PhD

    working on something that’s not gonna drop til 2020 <
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    Jul 24

    When white writers want to write about race, they tend to be most successful when they write about whiteness, and least successful when they write about (proximity to) Blackness or other marginalized identities that are not their own.

    Awhile back Kaveh Akbar tweeted that we as white writers might want to consider interrogating whiteness in our work more rather than attempt to write about race and identity beyond our experience. This advice has stuck with me & IMO is a necessary path forward for white writers.
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    Jul 24

    this is what they call “the good shit”

    LAUNCHING WEDNESDAY: Justice in America (), hosted by and , is a podcast for everyone interested in criminal justice reform—from those new to the issues to experts who want to know more. Subscribe today:
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    Jul 24

    WARNING! Georgia is at it again!! My husband checked his voter registration a couple months ago and was purged w/o notice. I checked mine at that time and I was still registered. I checked again today and I’m suddenly PURGED. Remember to consistently check your registration!

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