Black Press and Black Journos
Labor of love, work in progress The Black press and Black journalists are crucial. Help me build this one.
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@cvbell.bsky.social
@merlisa.com
Award-winning journalist, freelance writer and author of the book: Serena Williams: Tennis Champion, Sports Legend and Cultural Heroine. Creator of Courtside Coffee Substack, highly-caffeinated tennis coverage. https://courtsidecoffee.substack.com/
@samsanders.bsky.social
Podcast maker. LA based, and Texan forever. TWO shows! The Sam Sanders Show: every FRIDAY wherever you get your pods, and on YouTube. Vibe Check: every WEDNESDAY with my friends Zach and Saeed. Also, I’m cuter on instagram: @samsanders
@michaelharriot.bsky.social
Journalist, writer, former member of the Six Heartbeats. Author of Black AF History: The Unwhitewashed Story of America. Never reneged; never will.
@thetriibe.com
Black-owned publication from Chicago to the 🌍 Reshaping the narrative in pursuit of truth and liberation. 💻: thetriibe.com 📩: https://thetriibe.com/newsletters/
@thebwstimes.bsky.social
The Black Wall Street Times is an independent news organization focused on issues impacting the Black community and marginalized groups.
@wordinblacknews.bsky.social
'Black America's Digital Daily' — innovating on the near 200 year legacy of the Black Press.
@glamgirl08.bsky.social
🩷💚 Marvel nerd. Fashion addict.Travel aholic Tech Exec Aspiring career coach www.sallysboy.com
@jasperjsmith.bsky.social
Reporting fellow at The Chronicle of Higher Education covering HBCUs, race on campus, and university legal drama. Reality TV enthusiast, cookbook collector, cat mom. She/her. Reach me jasper.smith@chronicle.com
@tarynitup.bsky.social
award-winning journalist | a lil country | impeccable taste in all things
@cheyenneroundtree.bsky.social
Entertainment Investigations @rollingstone Tips? Email croundtree@rollingstone.com
@adriawalkr.bsky.social
race & equity reporter covering the deep south & elsewhere at guardian us 〰️ mississippi vs all y'all 🍄🐊
@adamlmahoney.bsky.social
I am a climate journalist and a 2025 winter resident at the banff centre. I live in new orleans. 📧: adam.mahoney@capitalbnews.org pre-order: The Problem with Plastic: https://shorturl.at/y3f9e
@corli.thetriibe.com
(She/Her/Foe Nem) Chicago journo 🖊️Community Investment Reporter for The TRiiBE via Report 4 America | previously Crain’s Chicago Business
@juanitatolliver.bsky.social
food is my love language Author of A More Perfect Party: The Night Shirley Chisholm and Diahann Carroll Reshaped Politics MSNBC political analyst Opinions in theGrio she/her link.me/juanitatolliver
@brandicd.bsky.social
Author of Black Skinhead: Reflections in Blackness & Our Political Future. Cat mom (Ella & Satchel). Researcher. Techno optimist in an antitrust goth phase. Chicago is my ❤️, Baltimore is my 🏡. https://linktr.ee/BrandingBrandi
@veritenews.org
Nonprofit news for New Orleans elevating voices from communities that have been historically dismissed or ignored to create thoughtful, solution-based coverage on crucial topics. Sign up for our newsletters here: https://veritenews.org/newsletter-signup/
@jamilahlemieux.bsky.social
Writer (Vanity Fair, The Cut, Slate), editor, cultural critic and amateur stand-up.
@jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social
Abolitionist & political scientist who researches Black politics, feminism, gender & sexuality, policing, and threat. 🔗: linktr.ee/jennmjacksonphd 📚: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/673883/black-women-taught-us-by-jenn-m-jackson-phd/
@nathanpcollins.bsky.social
beat reporter covering Dallas City Hall for North Texas NPR member station KERA 🎙️✍🏾 www.keranews.org/nathan-collins
@momoshaty.bsky.social
Genre Lecturer, Writer, Journo & Prod, EIC of @nighttidemag.bsky.social: Diverse Horror Perspectives, Host of From Inside the House Pod, Member of Nyx Horror, 13 Minutes of Horror for SHUDDER NY-er in London https://nighttidemag.com/ http://momoshaty.com
@drewcostley.bsky.social
black, trans, disabled. asst. managing editor for @veritenews.org. journalist covering the lgbtqia+ community, environmental, health, science. signal is drewcostley.12 AP, OneZero/Future Human, SFGate, East Bay Express, UCBSOJ, UDC and Howard alum.
@nhannahjones.bsky.social
TIPS: Email me at nhannahjones@nytimes.com or send a Signal nhannahjones.67 //Founder Center for Journalism & Democracy at Howard Univ// Staff writer at NYT Mag// Creator #1619Project// History blerd//Smart and Thuggish
@maddyfitz.bsky.social
rva | former rugby player | she/her | newsletters + social media + tech policy news + etc at @stateline.org and @statesnewsroom.com
@trevellanderson.bsky.social
They/Them. Journalist. Critic. Authoress (WE SEE EACH OTHER: A BLACK, TRANS JOURNEY THROUGH TV & FILM; HISTORICALLY BLACK PHRASES). World Changer. slayzhon.com
@karenhunter.bsky.social
The Architect. Pulitzer. Host of "The Karen Hunter Show" on @urbanviewradio.bsky.social and "#KHIA: https://womens-empowerment-network.simplecast.com Founder of Knarrative.com #Knubia, www.theglobalmajority.com AND www.karenhunterpublishing.com (WHEW!)
@danyelsmith.bsky.social
author; see above | journalist; mostly at the New York Times Magazine | creator + host; mostly of the Black Girl Songbook podcast | go Celtics 🔆 https://www.danyelsmithwriter.com/ https://shinebrighthq.substack.com/
@thejournalista.com
I write. I tell stories. I'm funny. I'm cute. I'm fat, but don't worry, baby. You still love me. I promise. www.thejournalista.com www.thejudgereport.com
@nabjlaofficial.bsky.social
📢YOUR VOICE MATTERS! @NABJ Los Angeles Chapter, serving Black journalists and the community, in SoCal since 1980.
@hassankanu.bsky.social
Covering courts/regulatory law/antitrust @politico. Priors @TheProspect @reuters @blaw. Sierra Leonean 🇸🇱. Continuously depressed Wizards fan. Alum @DukeLaw @Morehouse
@mylesmichelin.com
Photojournalist @baltimorebeat.bsky.social Documenting life, culture, and music one shot at a time. 🎶📷🌎 Link to recent article ⬇️ https://subscriber.ultrarunning.com/archive/article/3692c11e-44e1-4c94-9625-36a9faa6c2bd/share#22
@kendrawrites.com
What's the opposite of apocalypse? Trying to chronicle that. Climate reporter based in NYC. Only speaking for myself. Tips? Reach me on Signal kendrawrites.04
@blacknandv.bsky.social
NABJ Black News & Views is a destination site for the best in journalism on issues that affect the Black community in the United States and around the world.
@daniellemoodie.bsky.social
Host of The Danielle Moodie Show on YouTube; co-host of The Daily Beast’s The New Abnormal; MTM’s #democracyish and #WokeAF Daily (2017-2024) 🖼️ Navi Robins
@rosasparks.bsky.social
Shuri's mom. Publisher of Fabulize; a pop culture feminist mag for BIPOC nerds. Cannabis lover. Neurospicy creative. Emerging comic book writer and novelist. 🏳️🌈Ignatz Awards nominee subscribe: https://mailchi.mp/f0796697386b/fabulizemagsubscribeme
@elishabrown.bsky.social
I write a newsletter called Reproductive Rights Today for States Newsroom. Subscribe: https://t.co/MhXxW1pLfr
@baltimorebeat.bsky.social
Baltimore Beat is the city’s paper of record. A Black-led, Black-controlled nonprofit newspaper and online media outlet for all of Baltimore.
@simonesnews.bsky.social
Truth, above all else. Former Washington Post & Capital B. Proud SMBC. Blaxit 🌍✌🏽
@victoriastmartin.bsky.social
Deputy national editor at Capital B News | Journalist & educator | Past: Inside Climate News, The Washington Post | Mom, storyteller, survivor
@capitalbgary.bsky.social
News we need. One of @capitalb.bsky.social local newsrooms! Join us at http://gary.capitalbnews.org.
@capitalbatl.bsky.social
News we need. The first local newsroom of @capitalb.bsky.social
@nicolefcarr.bsky.social
Digital Expat. Journalist. Speaker. Morehouse College journalism professor. Book writing 📚 + Globetrotting 🌎+ Searching for the ancestors with my own legacies 👧🏽👧🏽👦🏾🇯🇲🇺🇸✨💕💚 FORTIFY Newsletter: nicolefcarr.substack.com Website: www.nicolefcarr.com
@aallyahpatrice.bsky.social
I write about Black rural America for Capital B 🌎 2025 IRE Chauncey Bailey Journalist of Color Investigative Reporting Fellow 🥳 Mississippi 4eva. 🌻 https://capitalbnews.org/author/aallyah-wright/
@joyannreid.bsky.social
Writer, podcaster, documentary filmmaker and professional blerd 🤓💋. Fan of democracy and OG hater of fascism and apartheid.
@katstafford.bsky.social
Global Race and Justice Editor | Reuters UofM Knight-Wallace Fellowship alum Past: AP investigative race writer Detroit girl Send tips: Kat.Stafford@thomsonreuters.com
@freeblackgirl.bsky.social
OG Black feminist journalist and editor • Cofounder @theflytrapmedia.com • Award-winning author • Steward of movement and culture storytelling • Always standing in the gap with and for Black + queer folx
@capitalb.bsky.social
News we need. Join us at http://capitalbnews.org. Local newsrooms in Gary and Atlanta: @capitalbgary.bsky.social & @capitalbatl.bsky.social
@joelanderson.bsky.social
aka Joel from Mo City | Senior staff writer, The Ringer | Co-host, The Press Box podcast | Former host, Slow Burn seasons 3, 6, 8 | Nation’s fastest 10-year-old in 1988.
@jelaniya.bsky.social
your new neighbor from your old neighborhood. dean. writer. left-hander & occasional photographer. known to frequent the new yorker and columbia journalism school.
@polgreen.bsky.social
New York Times Opinion Columnist. The world, especially the global south, migration, inequality, the human future, queer stuff.
@theferocity.bsky.social
Poet and cultural critic. Also, I co-host the podcast VIBE CHECK. Artist-in-residence at Harvard rn. BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World. saeedjones.substack.com
@brandontensley.bsky.social
Now: National Politics Reporter, Capital B, a Black-focused independent newsroom. Before: National Political Writer, CNN. Writing a book on Whitney Houston's I'm Your Baby Tonight for 33 1/3. Email: brandon.tensley@capitalbnews.org | Signal: btensley.53
@jemelehill.bsky.social
I’m the same everywhere. Link to my new podcast + TV show https://linktr.ee/jemelehill?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=55ca250f-2ec3-4d57-afd4-9281b33b8bef
@candicefrederick.bsky.social
Culture Journalist for hire | Formerly: Senior Culture Reporter at HuffPost | Other Bylines: The Daily Beast, Time, New York Times, Washington Post, ELLE and Harper's Bazaar | reeltalkonline@gmail.com | candicefrederick.contently.com
@battymamzelle.bsky.social
writer, critic, producer, full-time bisexual ✨ I used to write about movies. now I make podcasts and write about movies.
@angelicabastien.bsky.social
Critic and Essayist, New York Magazine. Southern broad. https://linktr.ee/angelicabastien
@aishaharris.bsky.social
🎙️/ ✍🏾 : NPR’s POP CULTURE HAPPY HOUR 📖: WANNABE: RECKONINGS WITH THE POP CULTURE THAT SHAPES ME: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/wannabe-aisha-harris https://linktr.ee/aishaharris
@812filmreviews.com
Associate Editor at RogerEbert • Contributor: The New York Times • Screen Daily • IndieWire • Member: CFCA & AAFCA •
@janecoaston.bsky.social
Host of Crooked Media’s “What A Day.” Contributing writer at the New York Times. Previously: host of The Argument. Go Blue means Go the University of Michigan.
@phillewis.bsky.social
detroit native. deputy editor at huffpost. WABJ president. check out my free newsletter! --> https://www.whatimreading.net/
@ositanwanevu.com
Contributing Editor | The New Republic Columnist | The Guardian Author | The Right of the People (2025) Newsletter | ositanwanevu.com
@theemancipator.org
The Emancipator is a digital magazine dedicated to examining and confronting racism and the inequities it creates. Visit our website: https://theemancipator.org
@perrybaconjr.bsky.social
Government and policy writer. Views are my own. perry.bacon@washpost.com. https://www.washingtonpost.com/newsletters/follow-perry-bacon-jr/
@edeggans.bsky.social
NPR TV critic/analyst. This fall, I start teaching as Knight Professor of Media Ethics at Washington&Lee U. Blerd. Drummer. Author: Race-Baiter: How the Media Wields Dangerous Words to Divide a Nation. Media bloviator.
@karenattiah.bsky.social
Global. Columnist at Washington Post. Artemis = feline guardian. Rogue Radical Professor at Resistance Summer School Join the Fall Waitlist for Race, Media and International Affairs 101! https://forms.gle/6LoPuLUUjPT6Tang8
@jamellebouie.net
The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group. Send me your mutual aid requests.
@britnidanielle.bsky.social
Writer. Sr. Editor and Digital Lead at ESPN's Andscape. 📽 Producer: "Hip-Hop & the White House" on Hulu & "Greater Than Ourselves: The Legacy of #SGRho" South Central LA vs everybody https://britnidanielle.com/contact/
@sorayanadiamcdonald.com
I write about culture, history, and power. Pulitzer finalist for criticism. currently: working on a book previously: The Undefeated, WaPo (Pre-Bezos, mostly) she/her | sorayanadiamcdonald.com
@jamilsmith.bsky.social
Journalist and audio host. Editor-in-chief, The Emancipator. @theemancipator.org
@cvbell.bsky.social
🇯🇲Culture critic, media & politics prof and researcher. I 💙 Art & Democracy. Bylines: NPR, Boston Globe, IndieWire, LATimes, NYTimes, Washington Post, Oprah Daily, The Emancipator and BookPage. UNC J-School PhD. Linktr.ee/Cvbell