John K. Blake
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John Blake is a senior writer at and author of "More Than I Imagined: What a Black Man Discovered About The White Mother He Never Knew."
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What it's like to be a white woman named LaKiesha
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It can be strange but illuminating to go through life as a white person with what's called a "black-sounding' name. Here's LaKiesha's story
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Black writers and filmmakers are reinvigorating the horror genre - CNN
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There's nothing more frightening in America today than an angry White man - CNN
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Trump is bringing more change than Obama ever could - CNN
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What both the left and the right get wrong about my neighborhood in Baltimore - CNN
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Joe Rogan's use of the n-word is another January 6 moment - CNN
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Derek Chauvin: Why the look on his face was something worse than hate - CNN
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Mickey Guyton's 'Black Like Me': 2020's powerful -- and unlikely -- racial anthem - CNN
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I'm a black man in a Covid-19 hotspot. I don't have sympathy for people of color who refuse to social distance - CNN
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An 'imposter Christianity' is threatening American democracy - CNN
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What to know about digital blackface in social media - CNN
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July 4th: Is it worth celebrating America this year? - CNN
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I appreciate the response to my CNN article today about my mom. In the meantime, please consider reading the full story about my mom in my new memoir, "More Than I Imagined: What a Black Man Discovered About The White Mother He Never Knew." It comes out this Tuesday
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White supremacy, with a tan - CNN
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I covered the Rodney King and Freddie Gray riots. This moment feels different, and that's why I'm afraid - CNN
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A White state trooper pulled over a Black woman and her father. The two men shared a surprising act of kindness | CNN
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Fear of black men in public spaces is one epidemic we may never find a vaccine for - CNN
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I Was With Family. Suddenly, a White Man Appeared with a Gun. This an extraordinary powerful essay that hits hard. It may be the best take I've read so far on the Arbery verdict and the moment we're in now. Check out the author's new book, too
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What Trump's four years taught me about the two White Americas - CNNPolitics
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Critical race theory: Conservatives actually love it -- when they turn the subject to 'oppressed' White people - CNN
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African Americans: The Second Amendment's Second-Class Citizens
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'Lord of the Rings' TV series: What happens when 'wokeness' comes to Middle-earth - CNN
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We need more 'trauma-free Blackness.' Here's a start - CNN Style
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Why Christian music's biggest stars refuse to change their tune for the Trump era - CNN
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These White people grew up surrounded by racism. But they chose a different path - CNN
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I'm not sure a lot of people would link what's happening to Venezuela to socialism; in fact everything I've read and talking to people from there attributes there collapse to other problems.
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There's a sobering truth to Trump's racist tweets that we don't like to admit - CNN
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The Easter story helps an outcast preacher find her way back home
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My profile of one of the world's most gifted preachers on Easter, Barbara Brown Taylor
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Ukrainians are giving Americans two lessons about democracy we've forgotten - CNNPolitics
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Check out this article: Hi all, this is an excerpt from my new book, "More Than I Imagined: What a Black Man Discovered About The White Mother He Never Knew." It's the prologue to the memoir and the first published excerpt.
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Pastor William Barber says Christian nationalism is 'a form of heresy' | CNN
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It's what I can't see in the Ahmaud Arbery shooting video that also terrifies me - CNN
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Analysis: The most shocking part of the racist yearbook photo is unseen - CNN
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Harris dropped a bomb on Biden that's bigger than politics
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People keep talking about Harris' takedown of Biden as a political game-changer. I think it's bigger and here's why...
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The evangelical church is in a 'state of emergency' because of the pandemic and politics, Andy Stanley says - CNN
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I'm Black But Look White. Here Are The Horrible Things White People Feel Safe Telling Me. via
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It's one of the most radical and prophetic speeches in American history. And nobody knows about it | CNN
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Analysis: Tony Bennett sang in a key that Jason Aldean’s song can’t reach | CNN
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The painful question about Obama's legacy that we still can't answer - CNNPolitics
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MLK's 'I Have a Dream' speech was his most radical -- because of how America has changed | CNN
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Thank you Leonard so much. One of my favorite lines in the piece is that ignoring racism is an act of racism. That's how racism perpetuates - good people looking the other way
@JohnBlakeCNN
Such a well written article. I couldn’t agree with you more. I have lost a lot of friends because I am under the opinion that if they vote for Trump they are racist as well. You cannot stand next to a man who is a racist and claim you are not.
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When the dreaded 'other' is an angry white man - CNN
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Hi everyone, please join me next Wednesday night for the book launch for my memoir, "More Than I Imagined: What a Black Man Discovered When He Met the White Mother He Never Knew." I'll share stories from the book, and not in them, and take any questions from the audience!
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Martin Luther King Jr. and the one thing people keep missing about his greatness - CNN
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So fortunate my memoir, "More Than I Imagined," got a shout-out for one of the most perceptive authors on race today...
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The Methodist Church is probably going to split in two over homosexuality, and that's bad for all of us - CNN
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Biden just dethroned the Welfare Queen - CNNPolitics
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@ambermruffin
Those who read my entire piece will understand the context. The analysis specifically addresses why classifying a child as X% black is a trap. It’s the language & racial ideas from the Jim Crow era. That‘s the exact point of the our actual headline. Read:
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Like Washington and Jefferson, he championed freedom. Unlike the founding fathers, he freed his slaves - CNN an incredible slice of history few know. Well done!
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Clint Smith's book "How the Word is Passed" is not only one of the best books on slavery I've read but one of the best books about race, denial, and memory. Here's my talk with Smith:
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'You are more powerful than you think.' Why one man says it's too soon to write off democracy in America - CNN
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Harry Belafonte, radical activist and entertainer with a 'rebel heart,' dies at 96 | CNN
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@gordie813
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I hear you Gordon. I prefer slower happier change but look at history. No civil rights movement without fire hoses and dogs attacking children. No New Deal without the Great Depression. True systemic change doesn't come "without heat and dust."
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Why recent deadly attacks in the US are modern-day lynchings - CNN
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Opinion | The GOP tried to tar Judge Jackson. Cory Booker celebrated her. - The Washington Post
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John Blake, journalist on religion and race, goes personal with new memoir via
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Adelle Banks, one of the country's best religion reporters, talked to me about my new book, and what inspired it. Check it out.
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Despite recent anti-Semitic comments, Jews and Black people have long been allies - CNN
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Always good to hear a word from one of my favorite writers.
There's lots of truth here from
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. Maybe the only way for America to face up to its deep well of racism in the 21st century was to thrust a racist like
@realDonaldTrump
front and center, to hold up a mirror, force people to decide if that's what we really want to be.
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50 Republican senators, not just Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin, killed democracy via
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@KellyHughes
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What an honor to be interviewed by Jemar Tisby. He’s a bridge builder between the black/white divide and one of the most perceptive voices on race and faith today.
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Of Course there were Africans in Middle Earth, Just as there Were in Medieval England via
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We’ve Finally Begun to Confront White Christian Nationalism; But What About Its Source Text?
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'Jim Crow 2.0' is shaping this presidential election - CNN
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How a family’s racial history made this journalist rethink racial justice via
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"There's one elemental lesson that those who try to address racism often forget: "Facts don't change people; relationships do."
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The Clarence Thomas myth that refuses to die - CNN Since Thomas is back in the news as Some Black Ga. lawmakers object to a statue being built in his honor I thought it would be useful to resurface this story
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They lost their loved ones to Covid. Then they heard from them again - CNN
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Black Southerners are wielding political power that was denied their parents and grandparents - CNNPolitics
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What white people need to know, and do, after Ferguson
http://t.co/fQ7XbYczc1
best essay I've read on Ferguson.
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Second Amendment is not about guns -- it's about anti-Blackness, a new book argues - CNN
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Juan Williams: 'Parents' rights' is code for white race politics
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Not another 'Great Mixed-Race Hope'
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The royal birth is a lovely story but there's another side to it that could feed into a dangerous myth
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This library lets you borrow people instead of books. It just may help bridge our bitter divisions - CNN
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CNN reporter from West Baltimore discovers his interracial roots, bonds with white mother he never knew /The Baltimore Sun just did a story on my memoir, "More Than I Imagined: What a Black Man Discovered About The White Mother He Never Knew."
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My book isn't on sale until starting tomorrow but some have already read it. Here's what the author and poet, Clint Smith, said after reading it:
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Did Black lives matter to Abraham Lincoln? It's complicated - CNN
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This forgotten president should terrify Trump - CNNPolitics
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@DavidDark
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Nothing declared off limits before the interview. I’ve talked to Stanley several times over the years and I’ve never known him to duck a single question
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What causes armies to lose the will to fight? Here's what history tells us, and what Putin may soon find out - CNN
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A Marine who hated Muslims went to a mosque to plant a bomb. His intended victims ended up saving his life | CNN
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A 42-year-old fitness fanatic was 'beating himself up' over his decision not to get vaccinated during his final days, his family said via
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Street violence: An election scenario that should terrify everyone -- especially Black America - CNN
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Opinion: Black history observance began as a single week. It's time for a full season | CNN
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Dave Chappelle insulted a group that no one mentions - CNN
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