Charles M. Blow
NYT columnist. Author of #FireShutUpInMyBones Bookings: wmespeakers.com/speaker/charle… Instagram instagram.com/charlesmblow/
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How the University of Texas Turned to Meritocracy to Slow Integration
Long-hidden documents show the school’s blueprint for keeping out black students during the civil-rights era.
The Met Will Stage Its First Opera by a Black Composer
The company is making plans to bring Terence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” to New York.
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Charles M. Blow
OMG! OMG! OMG! My opera is coming to the Met!!!! “In its 136-year history, the Metropolitan Opera has never staged an opera by a blk composer. But that will finally change: The company said on Thursday that it would present ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones,’...”
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Birds Are Vanishing From North America
The number of birds in the United States and Canada has declined by 3 billion, or 29 percent, over the past half-century, scientists find.
Clarence Thomas friend: Joe Biden told Thomas that he didn't believe Anita Hill's sexual harassment claims
A close friend and former colleague of Justice Clarence Thomas, echoing new revelations from former Senator Orrin Hatch R-Ut., that Joe Biden did not believe Anita Hill when she accused Thomas of sexual harassment.
Charles M. Blow
WTH is this?! Team Biden, please come out and shut this down immediately if it’s not true. Otherwise… fxn.ws/2NlFGKL #FoxNews
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Claiming to be Cherokee, contractors with white ancestry got $300 million
Companies in 18 states, including California, got more than $300 million in contracts set aside for minorities even though their owners were white.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s family benefited from U.S. program for minorities based on disputed ancestry - Los Angeles Times
A company owned by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s in-laws received millions in federal contracts based on disputed claims of Cherokee Indian heritage, a Times investigation has found.
Referee suspended after forcing teen wrestler to cut dreadlocks or forfeit match
Other officials were ordered to undergo anti-bias training to "help prevent such discrimination in the future."
NYPD says anti-Semitic vandalism is on the rise ahead of the Jewish High Holy Days
There were 155 anti-Jewish crimes as of Sept. 15 — compared to 97 during the same time period last year. That’s a 60% jump, according to NYPD statistics.
Anti-vaccine protesters are likening themselves to civil rights activists
The approach reflected the level of desperation among families staunchly opposed to vaccinating their children.
Rep. Jackson Lee: I believe Lewandowski has been in contempt of Congress
The House Judiciary Committee began impeachment inquiry hearings on President Trump today, and the first witness is former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee of the Judiciary Committee weighs in.
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Balancing Work and Family: How to find that day-to-day commitment
Crystal Mason's ballot was never counted. Will she still serve five years in prison for illegally voting?
Her lawyers say if her sentence stands, it could discourage low-information voters from going to the polls at all.
Legendary journalist and political commentator Cokie Roberts dies at 75
Veteran ABC News journalist and political commentator Cokie Roberts has died at the age of 75.
Trump in New Mexico: 'Who do you like more — the country, or Hispanics?'
The president made a rally pitch for Hispanic voters in a state he lost by 8 points in 2016: “Nobody loves the Hispanics more,” he said at a rally here Monday night.
8 Years of Trump Tax Returns Are Subpoenaed by Manhattan D.A.
Investigators demanded the president’s personal and corporate tax returns as they examine hush money paid to Stormy Daniels.
‘People Actively Hate Us’: Inside the Border Patrol’s Morale Crisis
Overwhelmed by desperate migrants and criticized for mistreating the people in their care, many agents have grown defensive, insular and bitter.
All The Lies Brett Kavanaugh Told
The Supreme Court nominee fibbed throughout his entire confirmation hearing. Republicans don't seem to care.
Brett Kavanaugh Fit In With the Privileged Kids. She Did Not.
Deborah Ramirez’s Yale experience says much about the college’s efforts to diversify its student body in the 1980s.
Charles M. Blow
“During his Senate testimony, Mr. Kavanaugh said that if the incident Ms. Ramirez described had occurred, it would have been ‘the talk of campus.’ Our reporting suggests that it was.”
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