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Rachel Swarns

@rachelswarns

NYU professor. NYT contributing writer. Author of THE 272: The harrowing story of the Catholic Church and slavery and one family’s indomitable will to survive.

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TNR is hiring an experienced journalist to cover class politics in America. Minimum salary of $125K, and there's a travel budget. tnr.bamboohr.com/careers/144

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So thrilled to start the New Year in the archives! I dove right back into 1840s Louisiana this week, plantations, cotton, sugar, planter fortunes and glimpses of the enslaved people whose forced labor powered it all.

So thrilled to start the New Year in the archives! I dove right back into 1840s Louisiana this week, plantations, cotton, sugar, planter fortunes and glimpses of the enslaved people whose forced labor powered it all.
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Do you have a biography or a memoir that you’ve been dreaming about writing? Join us in Montgomery, Al. on March 21-22 for the first national Black biography conference in 40 years! biographersinternational.org/montgomery-bio…

Do you have a biography or a memoir that you’ve been dreaming about writing? Join us in Montgomery, Al. on March 21-22 for the first national Black biography conference in 40 years! biographersinternational.org/montgomery-bio…
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News: "Bloody Saturday" for Voice of America and other U.S.-funded international networks Mass indefinite suspensions at Voice of America, Radio/TV Marti Federal contracts severed for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia & more My NPR story npr.org/2025/03/15/nx-…

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From the Interim President of Georgetown University: Over the past few weeks, the lives of thousands of public servants have been disrupted with reductions in staff at federal agencies. Facing this, deans and program leaders have asked themselves, “How should we live Georgetown’s mission

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Carl Forsman, drama professor at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, says that while he used to expect his students to move to New York City after graduation, he is “increasingly unconfident” that it’s the best decision for aspiring actors. What do you think?

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🧵 (1/3) As part of my graduate studies at NYU Journalism (for Rachel Swarns class), I'm working on a feature about the experiences of Cuban immigrants in the U.S. Since the pandemic, a record number of over 1M Cubans have fled, and 850K have come to the U.S., per University of Miami

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I am honored, if also a bit stunned, to have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Yesterday, I felt my foremothers gathering, nodding their approval. This is in honor of them. amacad.org/news/new-membe…

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Hidden legacies! Our new American pope was born in Chicago, but his maternal ancestors were Creoles of color from New Orleans, according to Jari Honora, a genealogist and family historian at the Historic New Orleans Collection. #PopeLeoXIV facebook.com/share/p/18aZxi…