entrepreneur | journalist | morgan state alum
Brooklyn, NY
Joined September 2019
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The Root 100 List is live! Read The Root's annual list of the most influential African Americans in the fields of arts, community, business, entertainment, media, politics, and activism. #presented by @martell
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Happening today! Tune in at 7 p.m. ET for "Afrofuturism: Imagining Beyond 2024," a discussion on how we can create a world where Black folks thrive, with Word In Black's managing director @losangelista and our friends @UnerasedBWS.
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The amount of journalists of color who are losing their jobs just a few short years after newsrooms worldwide made commitments to better reflect the communities we cover. Journalists, who without them, coverage will lack proper nuance and inhibit community trust.
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The debate over that viral list of slang a teacher banned has been HOT. What do you think? If a student can’t say or write “standing on business” is that censorship/shaming or academic excellence? Education reporter @AziahSiid has more: wordinblack.com/2024/01/teac… #edchat
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🎙️: Last week, I led a conversation on racial health disparities in my hometown of Pensacola, Fla; a place where racism continues to negatively impact the health of Black families, including my own.
📍Pensacola State College
Aziah Siid retweeted
Less sleep for teens brings mental health struggles, bad grades, and crashes. Science shows later school times help. But opposition is really about logistics and costs, not science.
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📝LAST CHANCE: Do you have 5 minutes to spare? Take our audience survey to tell us how you feel about Word In Black before the survey closes today. Your input will go a long way to improving our reporting and community outreach. Thanks in advance!
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In case you have yet to hear, the Debt Collective canceled Morehouse College students' debts. These were balances due directly to the school.
New from me: "Morehouse Men Get $10 Million in Student Debt Forgiven by Activist Group"
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Loving the blue and orange ballons to make our Morgan State University family feel welcomed. 🖤🐶💛🧡🐻💙@BowieState @MorganStateU
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The shooting is part of America’s gun violence epidemic, and raises the question why the good things about HBCUs don’t make national news.
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Thrilled to see our work cited in the latest article by #VoiceAndViewpoint 🙌. Gratitude to @aziahsiid for the mention. It’s an honor to contribute to such vital conversations. #ResearchAcknowledged #CommunityJournalism
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"What started in 2019 as just a group of ladies looking for ways to create the best safe space for their Black + Brown students to grow eventually transformed into a network of over 300 families..." - @AziahSiid + @wordinblack
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Finance reporter @briaovers talked to folks in Minneapolis about what happened with the "system of mutual aid groups that came together after Floyd’s murder." wordinblack.com/2023/05/mutu…
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Education reporter @AziahSiid looked at how "Some districts — some more than others — attempted to change" the way they taught and talked about race in schools. wordinblack.com/2023/05/unpa…
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Black journos: how supported do you feel in your newsroom?
Working on a story for @WordInBlack. You can DM me privately. Feel free to RT & share. ✨
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@WordInBlack & @AziahSiid want to hear from you!
Our education reporter is looking to tell stories for National Teenage Pregnancy Prevention Month in May.
Please fill out the survey if this relates to you and feel free to share with those you know.
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Lessons on climate justice need to include the industrial revolution, reparations, environmental racism, and resistance say @JessedHagopian & Bill Bigelow in this “Earth Day Every Day” @WordInBlack article by @AziahSiid for #EarthDay2023
Read ⬇️
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Hip-hop culture moves the world — but can it save it, too? In celebration of Earth Month, join us and @HipHopCaucus for a discussion on how Black Americans are affected by climate change and how hip-hop is part of the fight for climate justice.
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I’m honored to have been chosen as @MorganStateU's keynote speaker for its 146th spring commencement! Speaking to the brilliant young Black minds at this HBCU is an honor I don’t take lightly. I can’t wait to meet the graduates who will change the world! fal.cn/3xfss
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“What I thought environmentalism was didn’t look like me,” says @wawagatheru. That's why she founded @blackgirlenviro to amplify more Black women's voices in the climate justice movement.
wordinblack.com/2023/03/meet…
