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29 Oct 2025
I founded @NBCBLK in 2015 & ran it for 3 years. It was crushing to see NBC cut the community verticals and their editors, all who served solid storytelling, hired unknown but talented writers, & provided a missing & nuanced lens to general news coverage. More @TheWrap
NBC News has disbanded its four dedicated verticals—NBC BLK, NBC Latino, NBC OUT and NBC Asian America—leaving just two editors to curate all diversity coverage.
"Experts say the rollback of newsroom investment in DEI suggests they were never fully committed in the first place," Bolies writes.
✍️ Corbin Bolies, Media Reporter
Read more: thewrap.com/nbc-news-diversi…
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29 Oct 2025
My pull quote from 2015 feature on the launch was, “It was destined to be controversial.”
And … here we are.
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26 Jun 2025
Leading this team these 4 yrs was a transformative journey but it’s time to take what I’ve learned & do something new. I’m grateful for this opportunity and to my incredible colleagues for their support and dedication to this critical work. theemancipator.org/2025/06/2…
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8 Apr 2025
Exclusive: Family of Harriet Tubman ‘angry’ after references removed from National Park Service website @Chandelis for @the_emancipator
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21 Mar 2025
President Trump signed an executive order that he said would “begin eliminating the federal Department of Education once and for all.” Attempts to shutter the Department of Education are congressionally unlikely and legally questionable. theemancipator.org/2025/03/1…
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8 Mar 2025
Don't miss this critical conversation on reproductive freedom tomorrow w/ Rep. @AyannaPressley @ #SXSW 2:30pmCT. If you can't make it in person, you can watch the livestream right here: youtube.com/watch?v=j1Da-rmk…
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6 Mar 2025
House Democrats sing “We Shall Overcome” following Rep. Al Green’s censure:
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My latest for @TeenVogue explores the horrific story of popular skincare ingredient Retin-A.
Before Retin-A was approved by the FDA in 1971, it was tested on hundreds of incarcerated Black people in Philadelphia without their informed consent. The survivors still bear the scars
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7 Feb 2025
We have some big news to share.
This summer, our co-founder @ibramxk will be moving to Howard University to build the Institute for Advanced Study, which will be dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of racism in the global African Diaspora.
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29 Jan 2025
“Couching bigotry in concern about “qualifications” (which only seems to apply to non-White people) is just the socially acceptable way to launder racist disdain.” —
Powerful piece from scholar Victor Ray for @the_emancipator theemancipator.org/2025/01/2…
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21 Jan 2025
"Trump’s election victories represent the coming to power of everything that King found morally reprehensible and politically indefensible regarding American democracy." - @PenielJoseph theemancipator.org/2025/01/2…
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20 Jan 2025
Coronation day on Capitol Hill.
🎨 by Jeremy Nguyen
#inauguration #Inauguration2025
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15 Jan 2025
Queer nightlife has a radical history, as a space where Black and Brown people love freely and express themselves, Malavika Kannan writes for The Emancipator.
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15 Jan 2025
This story is a slice of joy in challenging times. Words ✍🏽 by Malavika Kannan, stunning photography 📸by @MaryKang23
15 Jan 2025
Queer nightlife has a radical history, as a space where Black and Brown people love freely and express themselves, Malavika Kannan writes for The Emancipator.
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9 Jan 2025
"When Black adults want to teach Black kids how and why to love themselves, they will reach for art, and when they reach for poems, it is very possible you might get a Hughes poem when you are being taught to see and love Blackness." theemancipator.org/2025/01/0…
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7 Jan 2025
Preparing for #MLKDay. Will I need this again?
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6 Jan 2025
"Throughout [US] history, periods of transformative change are inextricably linked to violent uprisings and displacements of people. As painful and shocking as Jan. 6 was, it was not an outlier, but part of a historic continuum." - @Carrasquillo
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18 Dec 2024
.@ProPublica is hiring an Executive Producer, Audio to oversee investigative audio projects and partnerships.
🎧 7 years experience as a producer/narrative storyteller
📌 Remote friendly
💰 $150K-$175K
DEADLINE: Jan. 14, 2025
Apply here: grnh.se/25f3cbde6us
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4 Dec 2024
Our small but mighty newsroom is committed to exploring the deep connections between policy, race, and justice, and providing clarity in a time of confusion. #GivingTuesday #GivingNewsDay
Support our work: bit.ly/3CWkJRr
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28 Nov 2024
Peabody Award-winning journalist @rebeccanagle sets the record straight on whitewashed American stories of Native past.
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