miami herald
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A Pulitzer Prize-Winning Columnist Was ‘Swatted’ but Survived. Here’s What He Has to Say About That
Leonard Pitts Jr., a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Miami Herald, was laying in his bed in Bowie, Md., early on Sunday morning when he woke up to a phone call. It was the police. The police told him they received a 911 call that he had murdered his wife. They instructed him to come…
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Miami Herald Backs Trump on Cuba
Others Call New Policy Counterproductive An Appeal for Calm After Minnesota Verdict Administration Cutting Back on Rights Enforcement Mayor Landrieu Says He Might Have Black Blood How False Tweets Blew a Story Out of Control Cliff Harrington Named Editor in Rock Hill, S.C. How to Fix Journalism’s Broken Hiring Process Nominate Diversity-Friendly J-Educator This Week…
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Why Miko Grimes’ Flavor of ‘Bou-ghetto’ Is Just Right for Me
I don’t like words like “ratchet” or “ghetto.” In short, they are reductive, marginalize a community, and tend to assign race to behaviors that are demeaning and demoralizing. Furthermore, they’re stereotypical language that tends to segregate us. I believe it’s elitist to sit back and ascribe language to a person’s behavior and attribute that to a class…