Carole V. Bell

Carole V. Bell

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Media researcher, culture writer. I ❤️ Books, TV, Film & Democracy. Bylines: NPR, Boston Globe, IndieWire, Washington Post, NYTimes, Oprah Daily, BookPage and The Grio.
UNC J-School PhD. Harvard College alum. linktr.ee/Cvbell

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Is no one going to talk about how JD Vance and Ron DeSantis have almost identical profiles -- military background, Ivy league educated pseudo populist culture warriors. And the one thing that gave JD a leg up was being strategic about when and how to shape shift? How hard is RD grieving right now?

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Just going to put this one here: "Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance argues against need for rape and incest exceptions in abortion laws" - WaPo 2021

Breaking News: Donald Trump selected J.D. Vance, the Ohio senator and “Hillbilly Elegy” author, to be his running mate. nyti.ms/4d1NIjo

New. And coming in hot. I’m excited to announce that I’m joining Julie Moody-Freeman as cohost for the entire fourth season of THE BLACK ROMANCE PODCAST. This season’s focus is on “Pathbreaking Books and New Directions.” Here’s a preview.

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Find the famous romance author in this video! youtu.be/tvzZQH_w118?...

Miss America 1986 Parade of Statesyoutu.be Miss America 1986 Opening with Parade of States. Susan Akin of Mississippi won that year

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Hey media folks, please spread far and wide: The Boston Globe is hiring a TV critic. Probably doesn't need to be said but these job openings are hella rare these days. Heartening to see this gig is available, pls let folks know TVsky! : bostonglobemediapartners.applytojob.com/apply/OLsbys...

TV Critic - Boston Globe Media Partners - Career Pagebostonglobemediapartners.applytojob.com The Boston Globe seeks a full-time TV critic to join our staff

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If anyone wants to do the OpEd project course to get starters, DM me. I will pay the fee. www.theopedproject.org

Junior Scholars: Project 2025 is now breaking through to public consciousness. The more people learn about it, the more they hate it. Now is a great time to search that website, go to the section of your expertise, and write an oped. Keep the drip of bad news for them coming, all the way to Nov.

The OpEd Projectwww.theopedproject.org The OpEd Project's mission is to increase the range of voices and quality of ideas we hear in the world. We provide trainings, fellowships, and resources to amplify underrepresented voices, and chan...

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So…I’m currently writing a book about Black mediamakers and US democracy. I have interviewed many inc. current+former employees of you know where. I’ve done years of research. I just want to say: you have no f-ing idea from the outside the fight these folks are fighting to try to save you chill out

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"Teaja Adams, a rising senior at Edgewood High School. She said in a statement that referring to the class as “divisive” means they are uncomfortable with learning about the past “unless it’s whitewashed,” but what’s really divisive is not being honest about history." Teaja Adams knows what's what.

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It cannot be stressed enough that adjusting the size of the Supreme Court in the 19th c. was a serious solution to serious concerns about how the Court functioned. As @earlymodjustice.bsky.social points out, reform often addressed imbalances. And these imbalances were often about REPRESENTATION. 1/

Seven times between 1801 and 1869 Congress changed the size of the court, going from a low of five justices in 1801 to a high of ten in 1863. In most of those cases, as in 1801 and 1863, the size went up and down in order to fix an imbalance or overreach by the Supreme Court. My latest

The Case for Expanding the Supreme Court Has Never Been Strongernewrepublic.com Biden has repeatedly refused to endorse “court-packing.” The right-wing justices’ ruling on presidential immunity ought to change his mind.

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"What the report finds is that Biden held on to 94% of the people who said they would support him before the debate. For Trump, 86% of people who said they would support him before the debate said they would do so after the debate." news.northeastern.edu/2024/07/09/b...

Biden's poor debate performance had almost no impact on voter preference, new report saysnews.northeastern.edu A new report shows that despite Biden’s debate performance – poor as it may have been – voter preferences haven't been impacted.

If you’re in the market for a A terrifying fictional dystopia built from our own past and present, I have the book for you!! It’s actually a thrilling escape.

Cheers to weird and politically provocative spec fiction. Mateo Askaripour’s terrifyingly imaginative new novel THIS GREAT HEMISPHERE draws a future world even scarier than our own. A dystopia that is both chilling and familiar. My review for the Boston Globe: www.bostonglobe.com/2024/07/09/a...

A terrifying dystopia built from our own past and present - The Boston Globewww.bostonglobe.com In Mateo Askaripour's new novel, a violent and divided world is redeemed only by love.

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Cheers to weird and politically provocative spec fiction. Mateo Askaripour’s terrifyingly imaginative new novel THIS GREAT HEMISPHERE draws a future world even scarier than our own. A dystopia that is both chilling and familiar. My review for the Boston Globe: www.bostonglobe.com/2024/07/09/a...

A terrifying dystopia built from our own past and present - The Boston Globewww.bostonglobe.com In Mateo Askaripour's new novel, a violent and divided world is redeemed only by love.

Cheers to weird and politically provocative spec fiction. Mateo Askaripour’s terrifyingly imaginative new novel THIS GREAT HEMISPHERE draws a future world even scarier than our own. A dystopia that is both chilling and familiar. My review for the Boston Globe: www.bostonglobe.com/2024/07/09/a...

A terrifying dystopia built from our own past and present - The Boston Globewww.bostonglobe.com In Mateo Askaripour's new novel, a violent and divided world is redeemed only by love.

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Just finished the Queenie series and really enjoyed it. I finished reading Black Girls Must Die Exhausted last month, so initially I got some of the plot confused, but they go in fairly different directions. They complement each other well.

So thrilled to wrestle with "Queenie" -- the book and the series on Hulu for NPR. I wrote about why I think the adaptation translates and expands on the novel in necessary ways. My review: "Queenie’s second life on screen expands its original vision." www.npr.org/2024/06/11/n...

Queenie’s second life on screen expands its original visionwww.npr.org Like the 2019 novel by Candice Carty-Williams that it’s based on, the Hulu series Queenie – which premiered Friday – explores the quarter-life growing pains of lonely South Londoner, Queenie Jenkins.

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In the exact same nine day period that Biden and his White House and campaign have been flailing, Trump has offered voters a window into his own mental state and vision for term 2 It’s not great! www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

QAnon Memes, F-Bombs, and Tribunals: As Biden Faltered, Trump Amped Up the Crazywww.rollingstone.com Trump quietly had his own week from hell while the media was hounding Biden

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“It is not just that my side — the ideas I believe in like bodily autonomy, economic justice and diversity — are losing in the marketplace of ideas. It is that many of the ideas that I believe in absolutely kill in the marketplace of ideas, and *it does not matter.*” thank you, Tressie.

Clear eyed as always by Tressie McMillan Cottom "...our electoral politics no longer care about representing the winning ideas." www.nytimes.com/2024/07/06/o...

Opinion | Whoever the Democratic Candidate Is, Americans Have Already Lostwww.nytimes.com The American Republic feels fragile.

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I don’t think major editorial boards are wrong for suggesting Biden step aside. I think they’re wrong for not demanding* the same of the one anti-democratic candidate who is a convicted felon. That’s the egregious part. *notably exception is Philly Inky

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Our new Very Specific Goal will bring Romancing the Vote to the absolutely mind-boggling lifetime total of $950,000 Game on, auction snipers.

Lots of interesting facts in the British election results. It is the Conservative party's worst result in almost 200 years. "Our country has voted decisively for change," Starmer says, and "the work of change begins immediately". The handover starts within hours. BBC: www.bbc.com/news/live/cn...

UK general election results live: 'The work of change begins immediately,' says Keir Starmer in first speech as prime ministerwww.bbc.com

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It’s been so interesting watching political scientist friends try to figure out what is best for American democracy this week. The one point of consensus esp after the SCOTUS ruling, is that the stakes could not be higher and that American democracy is unlikely to survive a Trump presidency in tact:

Gavin Newsom’s latest media play? A podcast with an NFL legend. The California governor says the show isn’t about politics. It’s just debuting months before the presidential election. 🤔 www.politico.com/news/2024/07...

Gavin Newsom’s latest media play? A podcast with an NFL legendwww.politico.com The California governor says the show isn’t about politics. It’s debuting just months before the presidential election.

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Me, last Friday: “I can’t think of a single class I less want to teach this fall than strategic political communication. Not in this election season. Not again.” Me, now: “well AT LEAST I’m not teaching Con Law.”

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Beware the temptation to downplay the SCOTUS ruling and to deny its potential implications. We've been down this road before.

Congrats! Looking forward to this.

A joyous #JenkinsJuly to all those who celebrate! To kick it off, I’m happy to announce that our podcast, Black Romace Has A History, is live and this season we’re focused on that fateful summer of 1994, The Summer of Black Love! Subscribe! Show notes and more: blackromancehistory.com

Black Romance Has A Historyblackromancehistory.com

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Wanna see something fun? Find your nearest academic, tell them it's July 1st, and then ask them how their writing project is going.

YIKES.

People over 50 with anxiety may be up to twice as likely to develop Parkinson’s disease as their peers without anxiety, a new analysis suggests.

Study suggests connection between anxiety and Parkinson’s diseasewww.washingtonpost.com Researchers compared people 50 and older who were diagnosed with a first episode of anxiety between 2008 and 2018 with a control group without anxiety.

The best thing I’ve read in a long time. A clear-eyed and compassionate assessment of where we are politically by The New Yorker’s David Remnick. www.newyorker.com/news/daily-c...

The Reckoning of Joe Bidenwww.newyorker.com For the President to insist on remaining the Democratic candidate would be an act not only of self-delusion but of national endangerment.