southern bureau chief @nytimes
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12 Feb 2024
Outside New Orleans, a New Mardi Gras Experience: The King Cake Drive-Thru via @RaR nytimes.com/2024/02/12/us/ki…
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Rick Rojas retweeted
13 Feb 2024
Trying so hard to get @RaR to break up with the national desk and join the fun kids over at @nytcooking. nytimes.com/2024/02/12/us/ki…
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Rick Rojas retweeted
22 Dec 2023
I might could read this piece by my fellow Southerner @RaR. nytimes.com/2023/12/22/us/so…
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Rick Rojas retweeted
22 Dec 2023
“The Lord laid it on my heart and we all need to lift her up because — insert information here,” Mr. Bryant explained in the video detailing how one might go about gossiping by way of a prayer request. HIGH-larious story, especially in the hands of @RaR. nytimes.com/2023/12/22/us/so…
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Rick Rojas retweeted
20 Nov 2023
This insane and terrible story, well told by @RaR nytimes.com/2023/11/19/us/ja…
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Rick Rojas retweeted
21 Nov 2023
Beautiful story by @RaR on the Carters, their marriage and their hometown of Plains, Ga. Well done Rick (and Rosalynn) nytimes.com/2023/11/20/us/ca…
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Rick Rojas retweeted
9 Oct 2023
Here's my latest for @propublica:
9 Oct 2023
Wow. What a read: A Racist Harvard Scientist Commissioned Photos of Enslaved People. One Possible Descendant Wants to Reclaim Their Story. propublica.org/article/harva… @JenBerryHawes
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Rick Rojas retweeted
19 Aug 2023
“It’s the moist, soupy, suffocating humidity that swallows up everything and conspires with the heat to make any activity without air-conditioning draining and even deadly.”
Classic @RaR beautiful writing. nytimes.com/2023/08/19/us/so…
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Rick Rojas retweeted
19 Aug 2023
The South Knows a Hot, Sticky Summer. But This? ‘It’s Hell.’ via @RaR in New Iberia, LA nytimes.com/2023/08/19/us/so…
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Rick Rojas retweeted
19 Aug 2023
"It’s not just the heat, as Southerners have explained for generations. It’s the moist, soupy, suffocating humidity that swallows up everything and conspires with the heat to make any activity without air-conditioning draining and even deadly." @RaR nytimes.com/2023/08/19/us/so…
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Rick Rojas retweeted
28 Jul 2023
I wrote about Sinead O’Connor and how the experiences that shaped her — child abuse, teenage incarceration at a church-run home for “fallen women,” attacks she faced as an adult — helped chart the forces she fought against in her art and public life. nytimes.com/2023/07/27/nyreg…
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Rick Rojas retweeted
23 Jul 2023
In Louisiana, a Democratic Governor Leans on Vetoes to Stall Conservative Agenda. via @NYTimes @RaR nytimes.com/2023/07/23/us/lo…
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13 Jul 2023
Kathleen McElroy is the only other journalist I know of (besides me) in the Texas A&M to NYT pipeline.
I met her as a sophomore, and I was just in awe, having someone of her stature and experience willing to talk stories and even dig into my raw copy. nytimes.com/2023/07/12/us/te…
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13 Jul 2023
She not only told me about the NYT Student Journalism Institute, she convinced me I was worthy of it. It’s no exaggeration to say the program altered the trajectory of my life and career.
I feel a lot of things about this, but it’s mostly sadness over what could have been.
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Rick Rojas retweeted
11 Jul 2023
one step forward, 1,000,000 steps back @TAMU
11 Jul 2023
NEW: Texas A&M recruited a UT professor to revive its journalism program, then watered down the offer after “DEI hysteria” #txlege #txed
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Rick Rojas retweeted
11 Jul 2023
Don’t be mistaken about who these vocal, anti-DEI constituents are .
@TheBattOnline did a deep dive last year on the exact type of hyper-conservative, anti-diversity and anti-LGBTQ Texas A&M alumni who A&M administrators take meetings with.
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11 Jul 2023
NEW: Texas A&M recruited a UT professor to revive its journalism program, then watered down the offer after “DEI hysteria” #txlege #txed
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10 Jul 2023
Maybe disaster can lead to opportunity.
I heard that a lot in Rolling Fork in the weeks after the devastating tornado.
But was it a chance to breathe life into a struggling town — or set off on the well-trodden path to leave the Mississippi Delta?
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5 Jul 2023
On the Fourth of July in Atlanta, you first go see the official, government-sanctioned fireworks display, then you watch the almost certainly unsanctioned one being fired off in a bank parking lot.
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