Clyde McGrady
@camcgrady.bsky.social
New York Times national correspondent https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/29/us/politics/black-church-gen-z-attendance.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
White House stands by State Department nominee who complains that "white Americans are increasingly second-class citizens," warns of "white erasure" and says "the Jews love to see themselves as oppressed." @camcgrady.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...
Trump Nominates an Apostle of ‘White Erasure’ for the State Department
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In the litanies about the Post layoffs, everyone keeps forgetting to say features. Twas ever thus at the Post, but those stories about the seizing of American cultural institutions? They don't report and write themselves.
A Virginia school board is being sued by the NAACP for reinstating the names of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson on two of its schools after stripping the names in 2020. I went to the hearing where it felt like the Confederacy itself was on trial. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
The Confederacy Goes on Trial, Along With Schools Named Jackson and Lee
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“This level of attack is unsustainable for Chicagoans.” President Trump claimed that crime-afflicted Black residents begged him to intervene in Chicago. Six weeks into the crackdown, the attack on crime that he promised hasn’t happened, and many in the city’s Black population haven’t been won over.
Trump Said Black Chicagoans Wanted His ‘Blitz.’ Many Disagree.
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Yes. Excellent story by @camcgrady.bsky.social in @nytimes.com . www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/u...
Where D.C. Crime Is Bad, Residents Question Trump’s Motives
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jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 12mo agolook what happens when you actually speak to the people living in these neighborhoods instead of ventriloquizing them to make an ideological point: you get a good story www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/u...
look what happens when you actually speak to the people living in these neighborhoods instead of ventriloquizing them to make an ideological point: you get a good story www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/u...
Where D.C. Crime Is Bad, Residents Question Trump’s Motives
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🎧 Listen to the podcast! Five years after the murder of George Floyd, we spoke with @newsbysamuels.bsky.social and @camcgrady.bsky.social about who Floyd was and where the struggle for racial justice is headed. 🔗:
Remembering George Floyd and the Racial Reckoning He Sparked
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🎙️ ON AIR: We're speaking with @newsbysamuels.bsky.social, @camcgrady.bsky.social and professor Yohuru Williams about who George Floyd was and where the struggle for racial justice is headed. ❓ What does George Floyd's life and death mean to you five years later? 🎙️ Listen:
Remembering George Floyd and the Racial Reckoning He Sparked | KQED
We’ll talk about who George Floyd was and where the struggle for racial justice is headed.
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FRI at 10AM: @newsbysamuels.bsky.social, @camcgrady.bsky.social and professor Yohuru Williams join to talk about who George Floyd was and where the struggle for racial justice is headed. ❓ What does George Floyd's life and death mean to you five years later?
5 Years After George Floyd’s Murder, the Backlash Takes Hold
The Black Lives Matter movement, kicked into high gear after Mr. Floyd’s murder on May 25, 2020, has given way to the politics of “white grievance” championed by President Trump.
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Only 19 percent of students at Howard University are Black men. There are now about as many non-Black students attending HBCUs as there are Black men. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/u...
At Black Colleges, a Stubborn Gender Enrollment Gap Keeps Growing (Gift Article)
Only 19 percent of students at Howard University are Black men, whose enrollment levels at four-year colleges have plummeted across the board.
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“We finally got you.” Jeanette Vizguerra, who made national news evading deportation in a church basement, is the latest activist to be taken into custody by federal immigration agents. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/u...
‘We Finally Got You.’ Immigrant-Rights Advocate Arrested in Colorado.
Jeanette Vizguerra, who made national news evading deportation in a church basement, is the latest activist to be taken into custody by federal immigration agents.
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This gulf story has everything: a map-maker debating the name change, an oceanographer listening to whales, a Venezuelan mom on a gulf-side bus ride to an immigration appt — all bookended by Margaritavilles (Key West & S. Padre Island) and, of course, SpaceX. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Trump wants it known as the Gulf of America. How American is the gulf?
Oil! Rockets! Migrants! Margaritavilles! Meet us at the edge of a nation on the brink.
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D’Wayne Wiggins, a founding member and the lead singer of the R&B trio Tony! Toni! Toné!, which had three platinum albums and a slew of hits in the 1980s and ’90s, died on Friday. He was 64.
D’Wayne Wiggins, One Third of the R&B Group Tony! Toni! Toné!, Dies at 64
As a paragon of the New Jack Swing sound, the band recorded three platinum albums and a slew of hits, including “Feels Good.”
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Rose Girone, who was believed to be the oldest survivor of the Holocaust, died this week at 113. She fled Nazi Germany in 1939 with her husband and baby only to be forced into a Jewish ghetto in Shanghai. Still, she would often say, "Aren’t we lucky?" Read more: nyti.ms/3Xlk3fM
February 1 is the beginning of Black History Month, which for decades has recognized the contributions of Black people to American civic life and culture. With President Trump’s furious assault on diversity programs, the celebration takes on new significance.
Amid Trump’s Anti-Diversity Effort, Black History Month Takes On New Meaning
Feb. 1 marks the first day of Black History Month, and suddenly the study of the Black experience may feel like an act of defiance.
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Today is MLK Day as Trump acknowledged. I talked to Martin Luther King III about it: “Dad has been used like a smorgasbord…” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/u...
The Search for Lessons in Trump’s Return on Martin Luther King Day
The dual celebrations of a second Trump inauguration and the civil rights leader’s birth raise profound questions about Black leadership and progress toward the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream...
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