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@jarvisdeberry
@MSNBCDaily
opinion editor. Formerly
@illuminatorLA
,
@clevelanddotcom
,
@nolanews
. "I Feel to Believe: Collected Columns" by
@unopress
. linktr.ee/jarvis
Media Personalitymsnbc.com/author/jarvis-…Joined July 2009
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Point of clarification: Did the retired high school coach win a state championship?
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Michael Harriot
@michaelharriot
Put these cookout attendees in chronological order of plate fixed 1 Pastor 2 Elementary school principal 3 A grandma, but she’s 46 4 Certified member of an usher board 5 Retired HS coach 6 The aunt who made the macaroni (also has the Holy Ghost) 7 man who gotta get back to work
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Keturah Kendrick
@HappySingleGal
A country that has normalized kids preparing for the time when they might be shot dead like animals while they are IN school is a country so deeply unwell that I wonder what else to say about this place at this point.
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Jarvis DeBerry
@jarvisdeberry
We don't have to choose between a Uvalde type shooting and schools traumatizing our children with poorly thought out lockdown drills. Scaring children doesn't help them. My column: msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-
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MeredithB-S
@MBennettSmith
It's the anniversary of #Uvalde. America is scarred, and scared — especially our children. Read
@jarvisdeberry
's moving column on what it's like to be the dad of a child who worries she won't be able to text her parents goodbye during a school shooting:
msnbc.com
Opinion | Not even tragedies like Uvalde excuse traumatic school lockdown drills
A year after a teenager killed 19 fourth graders and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, there are increasing objections to the harm some lockdown drills may be causing.
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@jarvisdeberry
Follow this thread and
@IlluminatorLA
. FYI, the man convicted of first-degree murder in a trial I covered in St. Tammany Parish in 1998 remains on death row.
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Greg LaRose
@GregLaRose
The @LouisianaHouse Criminal Justice Committee is now debating @RepKyleGreen's proposal to eliminate the death penalty in Louisiana.
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Ida Bae Wells
@nhannahjones
Many of y'all do not seem to know that Florida has always been a Deep South state with a long, torrid history of suppressing its Black population and democracy with breathtaking acts of terrorism. This Pulitzer Prize-winning book just touches the surface. amazon.com/Devil-Grove-Th
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@jarvisdeberry
In that day's Picayune, I presented 5 first person accounts of mothers grieving children who'd been murdered in New Orleans. Then there was the Mother's Day parade shooting that wounded (and eventually killed) Deb. What an awful day.
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Tim Morris
@tmorris504
A powerful story from @RichardAWebster and a heart-warmingly beautiful photo from our friend @KevinAllman tinyurl.com/2j8dcjya
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@jarvisdeberry
Do the people laughing at Trump shaming the woman he was just found liable of sexually abusing realize their faces are on camera? Do they care?
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@jarvisdeberry
His work was already called into question when, after “Roots,” he was accused of plagiarism by two different writers, including the esteemed Dr. Margaret Walker Alexander. She lost. But the other plagiarism suit from Harold Courlander succeeded.
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Wesley
@WesleyLowery
This is stunning - truly a bombshell. This criticism from MLK of Malcolm X is a key foundations upon which the two men's relationship has been understood. It calls into question the work of Alex Haley -- and the accuracy of the Autobiography of Malcom X washingtonpost.com/history/2023/0
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@jarvisdeberry
This sentence at the end of the CNN story about Rep. George Santos facing criminal charges has me laughing as I imagine the reporting process. "Hello? Hi, I'm a reporter at CNN.  I'm calling about a claim from your former roommate that you stole his scarf. Did you steal it?"
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Jarvis DeBerry
@jarvisdeberry
I’d forgotten this. Here’s the thing: Everyone expecting a check gets mad when it’s late. The idea that a person on welfare has no standing to be mad at a late check suggests a) she’s not human and b) she doesn’t really need it.
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Jay Willis
@jaywillis
Your periodic reminder that Clarence Thomas used to smear his own sister as a shiftless, welfare-dependent layabout in speeches to his Heritage Foundation pals, and when reporters tracked her down, his story turned out to be extremely fake greensboro.com/thomas-sister-
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@jarvisdeberry
Yeah, it would only have been a threat if people had been injured or killed.
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Sherrilyn Ifill
@SIfill_
Bill Barr is speaking in Cleveland. C-Span is carrying it. Barr: “The people on the right are not a threat to democracy.The threat is coming from the progressive side.” Q: Did you feel that way on Jan. 6th? Barr: “Yes. I thought Jan. 6th was a clown show.There was no threat.”
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@jarvisdeberry
The 2001
@NABJ
convention in Orlando, specifically at Disney World, featured a keynote from Harry Belafonte who said at the start, “What a curious thing: Mickey Mouse and Black journalists.” Y'all.
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@jarvisdeberry
As a kidney transplant recipient, I thank you for this. I hope you're surrounded by friends and family during the time you have left.
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Amy Silverstein, author
@ajsilverstein16
I will be closing down my Twitter in 2 weeks. Meanwhile: My Transplanted Heart and I Will Die Soon nytimes.com/2023/04/18/opi
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