History and a Homecoming

Last week my family and friends were among Black college graduates across the nation who returned to their cherished stomping grounds for a HBCU…

Oct 20 • 

Nicole Carr

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What about the children now?

They routinely shout about protecting children and families. But a party that backs violent, dehumanizing ICE enforcement tactics has yet to decry how…

Oct 4 • 

Nicole Carr

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September 2025

Hot on the Mic: A conversation with WABE's Rose Scott and Morehouse Journalism

We're a few days out from hosting Journalism Week at Morehouse College. The crisis before us could not be clearer. Listen to the future of journalism…

Sep 25 • 

Nicole Carr

2

Why I'm a journalist pursuing a Ph.D.

Last Fall I sat in my father's house and decided to pursue a Ph.D. in the Humanities. This is why I see my new studies as essential to my body of…

Sep 1 • 

Nicole Carr

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July 2025

The judges: "Carr delivers a tour de force that traces an unbroken line from Freedom’s Journal in 1827 to today’s media crisis following the…

Last night I received notice that I'd won the 2025 American Society for Journalists and Authors Op-ed writing award. My winning piece was a…

Jul 22 • 

Nicole Carr

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Dear Dr. Saddler: A tribute to my late HBCU journalism professor

Earlier this month I received news that my undergraduate journalism professor journeyed to the other side. A score of journalists owe our success to her…

Jul 20 • 

Nicole Carr

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June 2025

When Texas newspaper contributors used Jamaica to defend slavery in the U.S.

After the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation & in the wake of Juneteenth, TX newspapers published racist tropes about the island's freed Black…

Jun 19 • 

Nicole Carr

12

May 2025

The racial politics behind Memorial Day

In the wake of the Civil War, Black people created rituals for the modern Memorial Day remembrance. A Black studies professor's archival discovery…

May 26 • 

Nicole Carr

10

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On World Press Freedom Day

We're in the fight of our lives to hold the line and demand the protection of a free press. Part of holding that line requires us to face ourselves.

May 3 • 

Nicole Carr

5

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April 2025

Borradura

Using an iPhone 13, my journalism students and I produced a short film to explore the concept of Black history erasure in Panamá.

Apr 24 • 

Nicole Carr

1

Barbados, plantations and Black creatives

I retreated to Barbados with my beloved group of Island Scribes. While completing book manuscript edits in solitude, I was surrounded by the history of…

Apr 22 • 

Nicole Carr

12

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To Bear Witness

W.A. Scott III understood his WWII assignment required him to bear witness to crimes against humanity. This was a gift to the historic record and a…

Apr 6 • 

Nicole Carr

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