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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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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 1d

Can’t wait to share this time with you!

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Mc Nelly Torres ☕️ @watchdogdiva.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

Foxx has been doing this for some time…

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Morgan Elise J @morganelisej.thetriibe.com · 3d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

Absolutely.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 5d

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 · 3d

“…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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

We all have one. Or, two.

Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 4d

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.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 4d

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 4d

There would not be wall-to-wall coverage because America has a fear and and an appetite for this.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 4d

If what was happening in Chicago was happening in NYC, there would be wall-to-wall cable news coverage

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John Robinson @jrobin.bsky.social · 4d

“In your local coverage, include a collection of reporting in your stories about how government statements are not meshing with reality.”

This👇is important.

Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 4d

I wrote about children facing trauma in ICE raids led by the party that claims to protect children. In Chicago, the mission name closely resembles that of a Nazi Germany war mission title. And protective norms have been broken. Let’s re-examine how we center coverage: substack.com/@nicolefcarr...

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.

substack.com

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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 4d

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.

substack.com

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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 5d

A portion of this touches on what I wrote about in a newsletter earlier this year. This is through the lens of the historic Black press: open.substack.com/pub/nicolefc...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 6d

When you recall that political reporters ran interference for Trump over his "opposition" to Project 2025, remember that even AT THAT TIME there was a hidden camera interview with Vought where he said that was bullshit and he didn't mean it. www.mediamatters.org/russ-vought/...

In undercover interview, Project 2025 architect gets candid on the initiative’s radical goals and connections to Trump

In an undercover interview with reporters from the British non-profit organization Centre for Climate Reporting, Project 2025 architect and MAGA ally Russ Vought admitted to the project's strong ties ...

www.mediamatters.org

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 7d

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 6d

This week I moderated a “Crisis in Journalism” panel at Morehouse College. Our panelists were NABJ National President, @errinhaines.bsky.social , AJC EIC (1st Black editor in paper’s 157-year history) Leroy Chapman + @idabwellssociety.bsky.social ED, Dr. Robbie Morganfield. More to come in Fortify.

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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 6d

Rapid fire with @erniesuggs.bsky.social @jewelwickershow.bsky.social @mikejordanatl.bsky.social for #morehousejournalismweek