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Joy-Ann Reid
@joyannreid
Writer, TheReidout host & doc maker about town.
These are tough times for America, with fascism and nazism on the rise as we make the long, tough transition to a mulitiracial democracy. I plan to stay woke and fight for a better country til the last zombie goes down.
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Real talk: Rush Limbaugh did everything in his power to ruin America (and he absolutely ruined talk radio by turning into a racist, ugly, hatefest. I wrote a thing about courage — from Medgar Evers to Alexei Navalny The Supreme Court is waging war on young Americans, because a majority of them, Black and White, are progressive. Ladapo to Florida kids: go ahead and get measles!
Joseph Ladapo ... I won't call him "doctor" ... is an absolute madman. Shame on Ron Desantis for empowering him to work his insane experiments on Florida children and seniors. God help that declining state. Guess who was mingling openly at this year's CPAC? Nazis. That's who. Nazis. By Vassia Barba & Rudi Kinsella Donald Trump has been branded as the worst US President in history for a third consecutive time by a group of political scholars. Top academics have repeatedly crowned him with this dubious title on the basis of their expert insights into US preside I'll be interviewing this doctor tonight on @thereidout. What he experienced in #gaza is painful to read and to hear about, but we need to know what's being done with our tax dollars and in our name. Hope you'll tune in tonight at 7pm ET. Spoke with my friend @deanobeidallah about #medgarandmyrliw for @salonofficial #salontalks . Check it out! Thank you, @davidcorn !!! Perhaps a bit late in coming but this is a good explainer about the conflict to end all conflicts ... Medgar and Myrlie makes the @NYTIMES list of new books to check out in February! Finally saw American Fiction and it is MARVELOUS, but special shoutout to my sister Erika Alexander. The whole cast is incredible, but I wholly endorse this take on my sister. See this film! Medgar and Myrlie makes The Root's February book list
Thank you so much @TheRootDotCom for including #MedgarandMyrlie in your list of February books to read!! What great company to be in with these amazing authors. One love and happy reading, all! Check out my new op-ed!
If you've got a few minutes, please check out my new op-ed in the New York Times, in support of my new book: Medgar and Myrlie. Happy MLK Day Eve! Worth a read, from Ha'aretz... PONTIFEX with a sobering Christmas message for Israel and Gaza. This is wrong. Just simply wrong.
What's being described here by Mr. Ignatius, in the most urbane and gentle way possible, is blatant land theft and apartheid. The settler movement in the occupied West Bank (and in their dreams, soon in Gaza again, as well as expanding to parts of Lebanon, Syria and into Egypt to See it while it’s still legal
Michael Harriott on why everyone should see South Carolina’s groundbreaking International African American History Museum… while it’s still legal. A modern day Dr Howard…
Thinking about Dr T.R.M. Howard today… Prepping for my roundtable with VP Harris today marking one year post-Roe v Wade. Among our guests will be Shannon Brewer, who ran the clinic: Jackson Women’s Health — which was the last abortion clinic in Mississippi — and whose lawsuit tri Happy Juneteenth!
This is the only Juneteenth article you need today. Also happy Juneteenth to all who accept and promote accurate American history. To everyone else: happy Monday. 😬