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‼️This still feels surreal but I’m writing a book. Thank you to @TheAtlantic for giving me the space & time to write in first place. 🥹
Jenisha Watts
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Jenisha Watts
@JenishaWatts
Staff writer @TheAtlantic
- Some personal news: Today is my first official day as general editor for culture at ESPN's The Undefeated. Inbox open for pitches: [email protected]
GIF - Drop everything ASAP & read this piece by @JasonReynolds83 Eleven minutes: A call from #Kobe Bryant undf.td/2SmrocQ
- Nikki Giovanni felt moved to write a #poem to Vanessa Bryant after watching the memorial at Staples Center undf.td/3c7o9im
- My thoughts on Sonya Massey. “Sonya Massey’s tax dollars had contributed to the salary of the officer who killed her. That’s the insanity of being Black in this country.”
- The essay that planted the seed for my memoir. And a great reason to subscribe to @TheAtlantic! Support great journalism.When @JenishaWatts moved from Kentucky to New York to become a journalist, she hid her past. In 2023, she wrote about her harrowing childhood and the freedom that writing offered her: theatln.tc/AHJrfnn5
00:00 - “You are paid to win basketball games, yet immediately after you win or lose, you are right there in front of the world talking about systemic oppression and radical possibilities.” @KieseLaymon on @KingJames theundefeated.com/features/lebro…
- It’s still wild to me that I get to work with words & stories for a living. I hope you spend some time this weekend with the recent pieces published for @TheAtlantic’s Inheritance project.
- Grateful that words LITERALLY changed my life & to be able to share my story with students from my hometown … what a moment, what a day. ❤️Jenisha Watts, senior editor at The Atlantic and FCPS alumni, visited Crawford Middle today to speak with students about the importance of reading, critical thinking, and believing in yourself.
- “I was heartbroken to be leaving my mother and sister, relieved to be free of the Taliban, but also furious at the United States and the world for abandoning my country. What would happen to me?” @bushra_seddique
- So I wrote this essay for #BreonnaTalyor & all the other Black women & girls cause Breonna is all of us
