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Nicole Carr

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Digital Expat. Journalist. Speaker. Morehouse College Visiting Asst.journalism professor. Book writing 📚 + Globetrotting 🌎+ Searching for the ancestors with my own legacies 👧🏽👧🏽👦🏾 🇺🇸🇯🇲✨💕💚 FORTIFY Newsletter: nicolefcarr.substack.com Website: www.nicolefcarr.com

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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · Mar 16

It's Black Press Day. And the historic Black press understood what it was like to be targeted, surveilled, charged with crimes, even jailed. As similar threats loom, we should take a look at this history. Read/Listen/Share/Subscribe to Fortify here: nicolefcarr.substack.com/p/the-histor...

The historic Black press and the attempt to criminalize journalists

I've long thought about the potential for U.S. journalists to be jailed in America for doing our jobs. We should remember how the government came after Black journalists in the not-so-distant past.

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Capital B Atlanta @capitalbatl.bsky.social · 52m

Late mortgage payments. Car loan defaults. No child care. Dwindling savings.

These are just a few of the issues that federal workers told Capital B Atlanta they will be facing as the federal government shutdown drags on.

Atlanta Federal Workers Struggle amid Government Shutdown - Capital B News - Atlanta

With many living paycheck to paycheck, TSA and CDC workers fear losing their homes and cars if a resolution isn’t reached in Congress.

atlanta.capitalbnews.org

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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 2h

2/2 Then, I would point to how the anti-DEI movement would strike special education services by definition of DEI. That’s what’s happening within our Department of Education…Don’t “other” folks or think the wrath doesn’t come for you and yours next.

Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 2h

1/2 When I would speak at journalism conferences about my reporting on school boards/anti-DEI/“parental rights” movement, I’d ask the audience if they knew of or had children with IEPs.

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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 2h

Attended the soft opening for my friend/soror’s new Atlanta bookstore.
Dr. Key has Double Tax right next to the cash register! @itsafronomics.bsky.social ✨

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 17h

This article I had published at @motherjones.com in January feels very relevant with federal special ed office layoffs. Project 2025 targeted disability education services. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Project 2025's plan to dismantle public education—and screw over disabled kids

Nearly nine million students rely on DOE-backed disability accommodations.

www.motherjones.com

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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 1d

Black journalists. The six percent.
To bear witness and speak in a room full of ancestors and descendants…
Last week’s “Journalism in Crisis” conversation at Morehouse College was necessary.
Thank you to everyone who took time to be in community with us.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 1d

This is beyond ridiculous and demonstrably untrue. A lie.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 4d

Can’t wait to share this time with you!

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Mc Nelly Torres ☕️ @watchdogdiva.bsky.social · 4d

Dear @ire.org: AccessFest is here! I'm joining the fabulous @nicolefcarr.bsky.social at 10 a.m. ET Friday Oct. 10. Nicole's writing shows how Black journalists have contributed to journalism from day one because history matters. I write about my journey as a Latina producing investigations. Join us!

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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you for replying. I have lots of thoughts on this (industry-wise). And I’m grateful for all of those who continue to bear witness.

Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 4d

This is great reporting.
Can I ask you something?
Totally understand the need for a second source in your own reporting, but given where we are today with all the indecent norms (and where we’ve been in this country), why did this concept of separation by race seem too insane to be true?

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 4d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 5d

Spoke about race, media, industry and America with April Ryan’s USC “Fact-Based Reporting and the Rise of Independent Journalism” study group. April is the longest serving Black member of the White House Press Corps. What a conversation. Grateful for students who have the fire for these times.

Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 5d

Foxx has been doing this for some time…

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Morgan Elise J @morganelisej.thetriibe.com · 6d

FINALLY signed my 75-year-old uncle up for @thetriibe.com. He got a welcome email and cussed me out because
1) The email didn’t address him as “Uncle Johnny.”
2) A physical paper doesn’t come with the membership

Anyway…this is a huge win for me 😂

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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 6d

It is reasonable-even NECESSARY-to be critical of news coverage. But what we’re not going to do on this Internet is talk about issues not being covered when they appear on A1 and in the A-block. Media literacy in this country is 🗑️ and can be included in the dumpster of daily crises we face.

Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 6d

Absolutely.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 6d

I had a liberal centrist — a professional — once tell me that they engage with more diversity at a Bari Weiss dinner party than they do in any mainstream media event.

I mention this because, just as it is true in politics at the moment, some of the calls are coming from inside the house.

Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 6d

Funniest part of this memo involves an ahistorical account of the “founding of the media” and its purpose.
*Stares in historic Black press…

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 6d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 6d

JUST IN: Chicago journalistsa re suing DHS and ICE over force used against reporters:

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 8d

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows

The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 7d

“…the operation’s name closely resembles “Operation Blitzkrieg",a WW II-era Nazi Germany combat approach that describes “offensive warfare designed to strike a swift, focused blow at an enemy using mobile,maneuverable forces.. armored tanks and air support.” nicolefcarr.substack.com/p/what-about...

What about the children now?

They routinely shout about protecting children and families. But a party that backs violent, dehumanizing ICE enforcement tactics has yet to decry how gov't is traumatizing kids at home and school.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 7d

Just noticed the Conservatives’ British ICE proposal also involves using mass deployment of facial ID – still an unproven and unreliable technology that particularly struggles with non-white faces – to enable deportations.

Which would inevitably mean false positives leading to detention of citizens

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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 7d

Before you can narrate an accurate story, you must demand to unmask ICE. Or at least recognize that agents are masked.

Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 7d

We all have one. Or, two.

Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 7d

I recently encountered one of my nemeses and update: he is still a nemesis. This man cannot help himself. We are peers but he cannot keep from negging me to my face. In front of people. He smiles and says some slick, backhanded shit and smiles some more. One day…one day i will pop off.