Such resolve and clarity of purpose have sustained Alcindor throughout her journalism career. The child of Haitian immigrants, she was inspired to enter the field as a teenager by the story of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old boy who was brutally murdered in 1955 after a white woman falsely accused him of whistling at her. “I wanted to be a professional witness,” she says.
To these stories, she often brings to bear her own life experiences as a woman of color and the child of immigrants, such as a piece she wrote about immigrants experiencing PTSD over Trump’s refusal to acknowledge the election results. “I know firsthand how immigrants who had come to America seeking a democracy that was functioning were feeling when they were seeing this democracy tested,” she says. where she’d covered the Trump and Sanders campaigns.
Then throws softballs to the guy she voted for. Not a journalist.
Love her
kaitlancollins take note. This is how we do it 💯
It was wonderful to see POTUS treat her with the respect she deserves as a journalist, and human being, at today's press conference.
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