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Karen Attiah

Karen Attiah

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Kendrick Lamar’s performance was as Black and subversive as all get-out

11.02.2025 90

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Karen Attiah

The assault on DEI? It’s aimed at resegregation.

08.02.2025 200

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Karen Attiah

For Tulsa victims, this ‘apology’ stings

30.01.2025 6

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Karen Attiah

I talked to Meta’s Black AI character. Here’s what she told me.

08.01.2025 4

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Karen Attiah

I’d fight either president over Gaza. I’d rather fight Harris.

Two days before Halloween, as the sun set on the Ellipse in the capital, Vice President Kamala Harris found an opportunity to conjure up the...

05.11.2024 4

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The true roots of The Post’s endorsement policy

In 2015, I walked into editorial page editor Fred Hiatt’s office for guidance. New to journalism, I was interested in learning to write editorials,...

28.10.2024 40

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Karen Attiah

It was Ta-Nehisi Coates who asked the tough questions on ‘CBS Mornings’

It’s our job to ask the tough questions. That’s the journalist’s creed that was widely invoked in the wake of the controversial interview this...

15.10.2024 60

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A painful divide in Black feminism will be a reckoning for Harris

Keeping silent on Gaza is too steep a price to pay for electing the first Black woman president. Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign bus stops...

19.08.2024 1

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Karen Attiah

At NABJ, Trump was both a missile and a mirror

At the convention, Donald Trump was given a forum to attack and degrade us while we listened politely. Key takeaways Summary is AI-generated,...

01.08.2024 1

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Karen Attiah

The senseless police killing of Sonya Massey is a call to action

Harris should lead on the intolerable pattern of Black women being fatally shot by police. Edward Ward, left, and Rev. Chauncey Brown join marchers...

29.07.2024 8

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Karen Attiah