The slave trade shattered Black families, tearing husbands from wives, parents from children. In the 1880s, a blacksmith placed an ad, hoping to find his people. Today, more than a century later, his descendants are still trying to reunite the family. They need your help. Edward Taylor was just three when the Jesuits sold him, his mother and siblings in the 1838 sale that saved Georgetown. He was sold again, torn from his relatives and shipped to Louisiana in 1846. He was only 11 years old. He never forgot his family. nytimes.com/2016/04/17/us/…

What happens when you hire an award-winning investigative journalist who happens to be Latina to run your investigations? Check out the @markup where @elarrubia is overseeing powerful stories that expose racial bias in tech & the automated algorithms used by the mortgage industry Her team's piece about bias in the mortgage industry dropped today, a complex statistical analysis of more than two million mortgage applications that highlights "new, devastating" disparities themarkup.org/denied/2021/08…

This powerful reporting exposes what many people of color encounter when they try to buy their “personal American dream.” Lenders were 80 percent more likely to reject Black applicants for home loans than similar white applicants. themarkup.org/denied/2021/08… The @themarkup also found striking racial disparities for other groups: Lenders were 40% more likely to turn down Latinos for home loans, 50% more likely to deny Asians and 70% more likely to deny Native Americans than similar white applicants.

In 2016, I received an email that knocked me off my feet. It was a tip about Jesuit priests who sold 272 people in 1838 to save Georgetown University. This wasn't news to historians, but it it astounded me. Catholic priests participated in the slave trade? Why didn’t I know? Some might have asked: Was an 1838 slave sale even a story for the New York Times? I will be forever grateful to my editors @marclacey and @michaelluo for their support. I knew immediately that this was a story. What I didn’t know was where it would lead.

This is America. A prominent black jazz musician is staying in a boutique hotel in SoHo. And a white woman accuses his young son of stealing her phone. Watch! (Her phone was later found in an Uber.) nytimes.com/2020/12/27/nyr… I am taking a deep breath.

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The announcement of one award today by @PulitzerPrizes moved my heart. It's a special citation from the Pulitzer Board for Ida B. Wells. "For her outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans during the era of lynching." Many of us celebrate her now, the crusading African-American journalist who reported on lynchings around the country. But she received little applause from the media establishment when she was risking her life to expose the truth.

It's at times like these that the vast disparities in wealth seem so painfully clear. Who can avoid crowded subways? Who can work from home and still receive a paycheck? Who can stock up on medicines and extra food? Which folks have laptops at home so the kids can learn remotely? How will folks who only get paid if they show up for work manage school closures? What about folks with disabilitis? Parents of children with special needs?

Nearly two centuries ago, the Jesuit priests who founded and ran what is now Georgetown University sold 272 people to keep the college afloat. Men. Women. Children. Babies. Many wept as they were loaded onto the ships. Three years ago, I told their story. nyti.ms/1qwGoor This week, Georgetown announced that it would establish a fund to benefit the descendants of those enslaved people. It is the first major American university to take a stab at reparations. I never thought I would see this in my lifetime. nyti.ms/2q2aKEU

As an African American, I have to be hypervigilant about my presence in the world in ways that are often unimaginable to my white colleagues. I can rage about it. I can weep about it. But it is real.
bit.ly/2OCUGE1 As a black woman, people make assumptions when they first see me. So my clothes are my armor.

Bob Hutchinson was a white advertising executive in his fifties. He thought he knew his bloodlines. Then he took a DNA test. (1/6) His mother had said she was Italian/Swedish. The DNA test showed she was African American. She had hidden her heritage for decades. (2/6)