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-…
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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
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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/
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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
mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-…
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We have a student on Maui. I talked to her and wrote a thing. bu.edu/articles/2023/maui-na…
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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.…
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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
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This is huge--no, HUGE--news for people with Type 1 Diabetes. A new pocket-sized bionic pancreas that delivers automated insulin has been cleared by the @US_FDA It was invented in a @BU_Tweets lab in a remarkable story. bu.edu/articles/2023/fda-cle…
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Justice #KetanjiBrownJackson offered #BULaw2023 lessons from her favorite musicals. Referencing @HamiltonMusical, Jackson advised, “Find something you care about, & get yourself into the room where it happens.” Watch her address: spr.ly/6013OleeS Photos: John Gillooly
ALT Justice Jackson delivering the BU Law commencement address.
ALT Gabriela Awilda Rosario (’23) delivers the JD address.
ALT Folakè Stéphanie Atchade (LLM ’23) kisses her daughter. They walk down the aisle together.
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Why isn’t anyone talking about this case filed against @RudyGiuliani and the possibility that he was selling Trump pardons for $2 mil (and splitting the $ w Trump)!
iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbe…
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Once Again, Our Nation Is Forced to Talk to Children about Guns, Deaths, and the impact of Trauma on them. BU Today @BU_Tweets talks to three experts about this tragedy. bu.edu/articles/2023/nashvil…
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It was an amazing to be w/ Pulitzer Prize journalist @DanRBiddle & Murray Dubin (journalist for + 34 yrs). They shared their journey of writing their brilliant book on Octavius V. Catto, “Tasting Freedom & answered all my questions! I’m excited to record my next body of music!
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Compelling read: The untold story of how Eric Lander’s sharp elbows spurred MIT’s Nancy Hopkins to start a gender revolution
Adapted from new book #TheExceptions by @kzernike
statnews.com/2023/02/27/eric… via @statnews
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Why do some international students choose English first names? @bualumni magazine Bostonia asked @BU_Tweets students; here's what they had to say: bit.ly/3Y5DlmQ
