20th c. U.S. historian interrogating the interaction of race, media, and civil rights. Winner, 2021 Margaret A. Blanchard Prize.
Joined June 2012
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20 Jul 2024
RT @thespikefeeders: Now that you've seen how the decks play, why not win some for yourself? We took all 4 decks we played in this episode…
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16 Jun 2023
This is one of the most interesting free school lunch papers - when districts implement universal free school lunch, it puts competitive pressure on grocery stores, resulting in lower food prices for *everyone* even if they don't directly benefit from school lunches
When schools offer free meals for everyone, local families reduce grocery spending. Large chains respond by dropping prices, amplifying benefits to the broader community, from @jessiehandbury and Sarah Moshary nber.org/papers/w29384
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15 Sep 2022
slowly reading through some of the internal documents that oil executives were forced to turn over to congressional investigators and the honesty on display here is wild 1/
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25 Jul 2022
If you can't stand up for librarians what good are you?
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20 Jun 2022
"What Journalism and Jim Crow does best," writes @David_S_Bennett in his review for ATL Studies, "is highlight how white supremacist narratives played a role not only in bolstering the profits of white newspapers, but also in silencing Black journalists."
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14 Mar 2022
A few weeks ago, parents, activists and educators in a red state where Republicans hold a legislative supermajority successfully beat back an anti-history (CRT) law, & yet I saw no national coverage of it at all. This says something important about media. indystar.com/story/news/educ…
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6 Mar 2022
I just became the first U.S. Secretary of Education to call on President Biden to unilaterally cancel student loan debt. Can I count on you to retweet and help me hit 35k followers so we can spread the word?
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5 Mar 2022
What is America? President Biden has given that some thought. See the whole interview here: bit.ly/3CheIdz
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13 Jan 2022
Let me get this straight: 60-vote threshold was carved up 160 times so senators could pass Trump tax cuts, gas bill & Supreme Ct Justices but when it comes to voting rights, “traditions” & “comity” mean you hug it tight, throw the voters under the senate desks & go home? No way.
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26 Nov 2021
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26 Nov 2021
When I was in Iraq during my first tour in 2003, I spent countless hours sitting with my local villagers talking about their experiences and futures. Over chai one day my primary village sheik, Dr. Mohammed, and I discussed the meaning of “freedom.”
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28 Oct 2021
In this case, the 51 senators blocking the proposal represent about 42 million fewer Americans than the 49 members who support it. Normalizing minority rule in the era of universal suffrage, as conservatives want to do, is a recipe for instability.
28 Oct 2021
It’s a weird feature of our time that 51 members of a 100-seat legislative body blocking a proposal is considered undemocratic
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