Emmanuel Felton
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Race and ethnicity reporter at The @WashingtonPost, writing The Search for Black Mecca for @harperbooks, teaching journalism at @yale and @hunter_college
New York via New Orleans
Joined March 2012
This is the book I've been wanting to write since I started my career in journalism more than ten years ago. Thanks @JennyMHerrera, @JennyyXu and @harperbooks for believing in this project as much as I do. I'm so excited to tell these stories about Black America's search for home
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RT @NiallStanage: This exit poll data is wild: White men, white women, Black men, Black women, Latina women ALL tracking their 2020 numbe…
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The cursive people are going to have a field day with this
Nevada’s secretary of state, seeing high number of rejected ballots in Clark and Washoe, says one of the biggest issues is that the signatures of younger voters don’t always match what’s on their driver’s licenses: “It’s mostly the fact that young people don’t have signatures these days. And when they did register to vote through the automatic voter registration process, they signed a digital pad at D.M.V., and that became their license signature.”
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The media (and Democrats for that matter) have not done a good job explaining that the United States is by no measure in a recession but is, by seveal gauges, in the middle of an affordable crisis that feels like a recession to a lot of people.
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RT @AngelaDWrites: On the scene for @TNLookout Knoxville College, East Tennessee’s only HBCU is on fire tonight. Leaders have been working…
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Like with recent polls focued on just Black voters (, Youth-focused polls have shown a far less dramatic shift in the last four years than the big national surveys. The Harvard Youth Poll found Harris up by 60-32 in the 18-29 demo.
Trump got 28% of the youth vote in 2016. Right now the Cook’s polling average shows him getting 41.5% of the youth vote. That’s 18-29 year olds.
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RT @jsrailton: WILD: actual photo of Musk-hired door knockers being driven around #Michigan. This group of mostly-black workers were drive…
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My latest: The song "Dixie" was played at Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden. In recent years, “Dixie” has been banned by a number of institutions, including Ole Miss, because of its history as the unofficial national anthem of the Confederacy.
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RT @Avi_WA: The @PhillyInquirer did a great analysis of the areas in Philadelphia that shifted most toward Trump in 2020. See that deep re…
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@jodyrosen Right, American Trilogy is a mashup of three songs: Dixie, The Battle Hymn of the Republic and All My Trials. It was supposed to be a song of unity. They, however, played the Dixie part alone tonight.
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Realizing people don't know Dixie: It was written for minstrel performers in blackface singing about how good slavery was and the defacto national anthem of the Confederacy, Senator Jesse Helms is said to have whistled it at Carol Moseley Braun, the 1st Black woman in the Senate
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Realizing people don't know Dixie: It was written for minstrel performers in blackface singing about how good slavery was and the defacto national anthem of the Confederacy, Senator Jesse Helms is said to have whistled it at Carol Moseley Braun, the 1st Black woman in the Senate
A lot of people seemed to have miss this tonight. I went back and checked, they indeed played Dixie
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@RayRayAfrika The song was originally written for minstrel shows where performers in blackface played slaves singing about how good slavery was
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RT @yashar: So remember that black insurrectionist account on here that was repeatedly promoted by powerful people including US Senator Ted…
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RT @AshleyAtTimes: IT TURNS OUT: Javier Rodriguez, the Bronx barber with a $15,000 utility bill, is the unlucky victim of a billing error,…
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I wrote about the Democrat's real Black voter crisis: Between 2012 and 2020, Black voter participation in Wisconsin fell from 78.5 percent to 43.5 percent, the largest drop in Black voter turnout in the nation.
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RT @craigtimes: A historic Black enclave in #Florida fought for flood controls. It may not survive. Residents fear their community & its im…
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RT @josephvlee: 🔔PRE-ORDER MY BOOK NOW🔔 I’m so excited to share that my book NOTHING MORE OF THIS LAND will be out July 15, 2025 @OneSignal…
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