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Diahuebs 24 Februari 2022

US House candidate sorry for intoxication during sleepover

(AP) — A U.S. House can- week that she was disap-
didate in Oklahoma has pointed that Broyles had not In a statement provided to
apologized after reports reached out to the girls to The Associated Press on
that she became intoxi- apologize. Tuesday, Broyles said she
cated at a Valentine’s Day doesn’t believe she would
weekend sleepover for “For someone who pon- have said the things she’s ac-
middle-school-aged girls, tificates to be undyingly pro cused of saying and that she
berated several of the woman, I am disgusted by has no plans to drop out of
children and vomited in a your behavior and find it ap- the race.
hamper. palling you couldn’t under-
stand why their parents are “The things I’m accused to
Democrat Abby Broyles, 32, angry,” Matthews wrote. have said are not who I am.
told television station KFOR They’re not a reflection of
that she had an adverse reac- Broyles, who initially denied my beliefs at all,” Broyles
tion after drinking wine and to NonDoc that she had at- said. “It’s clear this media
taking sleep medication given tended the party, apologized smear campaign is politi-
to her by a friend. last week during her inter- cally backed, and I won’t stop
view with KFOR, a news fighting for Oklahomans.”
“Instead of helping me sleep, channel for which she used
I hallucinated,” Broyles told friend from law school who Broyles used profanity and to work as a journalist. Broyles, an attorney who was
the station in a televised in- was the mother of one of the berated several of the 12- and the Democratic nominee
terview. “And I don’t remem- girls. 13-year-old girls at the party, “I want to say sorry from the for U.S. Senate from Okla-
ber anything until I woke up commenting on one girl’s bottom of my heart, I apolo- homa in 2020, announced
or came to, and I was throw- Parents and at least one of acne and another’s Hispanic gize for any hurt or damage last year she planned to run
ing up in a hamper.” the girls who were at the ethnicity. or trauma that my behavior, against Republican U.S. Rep.
sleepover told the online when I didn’t know what I Stephanie Bice for the 5th
She said she was invited to news outlet NonDoc, which The parent of one of the girls, was doing, caused,” Broyles Congressional District that
the slumber party by a good first reported the story, that Sarah Matthews, tweeted last said. “I’m deeply sorry.” includes Oklahoma City.

Abolition newspaper revived for nation grappling with racism

(AP) — America’s first Jonesborough, Tennessee, by can help them imagine a dif- ular culture, film, music and building, The Emancipator
newspaper dedicated to iron manufacturer Elihu Em- ferent world.” television and, as the pan- published an interview with
ending slavery is being bree, with the stated purpose demic eases, look to host live a Harvard social justice pro-
resurrected and reimag- to “advocate the abolition of Other projects have also re- events around Boston. fessor and commentary from
ined more than two cen- slavery and to be a repository cently come online taking the a Boston College poetry pro-
turies later as the nation of tracts on that interesting mantle of abolitionist news- “Every time someone twists fessor.
continues to grapple with and important subject,” ac- papers, including The North words, issues, situations or
its legacy of racism. cording to a digital collection Star, a media site launched experiences, we want to be It also posted on social media
of the monthly newsletter at in 2019 by civil rights activ- there like whack-a-mole, a video featuring Ibram X.
The revived version of The the University of Tennessee ist Shaun King and journalist whacking it down with the Kendi, founding director of
Emancipator is a joint effort library. Benjamin Dixon that’s billed facts and the context,” Doug- BU’s anti-racism center and
by Boston University’s Cen- as a revival of Frederick Dou- las said. author of “How to be an An-
ter for Antiracist Research Before Embree’s untimely glass’ influential anti-slavery tiracist,” reflecting on white
and The Boston Globe’s death from a fever ended newspaper. Another critical focus of the supremacy. Kendi co-found-
Opinion team that’s expect- its brief run later that year, publication will be spotlight- ed the project with Bina Ven-
ed to launch in the coming The Emancipator reached Douglas said The Emanci- ing solutions to some of the kataraman, editor-at-large at
months. a circulation of more than pator, which is free to the nation’s most intractable ra- The Boston Globe.
2,000, with copies distrib- public and primarily funded cial problems, added Payne,
Deborah Douglas and Amber uted throughout the South through philanthropic do- who joined the project after And while the new Emanci-
Payne, co-editors-in-chief of and in northern cities like nations, will stand out be- working as a managing editor pator is primarily focused on
the new online publication, Boston and Philadelphia that cause of its focus on incisive at BET.com and an executive the Black community, Doug-
say it will feature written and were centers of the abolition commentary and rigorous producer at Teen Vogue. las and Payne stress it will
video opinion pieces, multi- movement. academic work. The publica- also tackle issues facing other
media series, virtual talks and tion’s staff, once it’s ramped “There are community communities of color, such
other content by respected Douglas and Payne say draw- up, will largely eschew the groups, advocates and legis- as the rise in anti-Asian hate
scholars and seasoned jour- ing on the paper’s legacy is typical quick turnaround, lators who are really taking during the global coronavirus
nalists. The goal, they say, appropriate now because it breaking news coverage, she matters into their own hands pandemic.
is to “reframe” the national was likely difficult for Amer- said. so how do we amplify those
conversation around racial icans to envision a country solutions and get those sto- They argue The Emancipa-
injustice. without slavery back then, “This is really deep report- ries told?” she said. “At the tor’s mission is all the more
just as many people today ing, deep research and deep academic level, there’s so critical now as the debate
“I like to say it’s anti-racism, likely can’t imagine a nation analysis that’s scholarly driv- much scholarly research that over how racism is taught has
every day, on purpose,” said without racism. The new en but written at a level that just doesn’t fit into a neat, made schools the latest po-
Douglas, who joined the Emancipator was announced everyone can understand,” 800-word Washington Post litical battleground.
project after working as a last March, nearly a year after Douglas said. “Everybody is op-ed. It requires more ex-
journalism professor at De- the killing of George Floyd invited to this conversation. cavation. It requires maybe “Our country is so polarized
Pauw University in Indiana. by Minneapolis police in We want it to be accessible, a multimedia series. Maybe that partisanship is trump-
“We are targeting anyone May 2020 sparked social jus- digestible and, hopefully, ac- it needs a video. So we think ing science and trumping
who wants to be a part of tice movements worldwide. tionable.” that we are really uniquely historical records,” Payne
the solution to creating an positioned.” said. “These ongoing cru-
anti-racist society because we “Those abolitionists were The publication also hopes sades against affirmative ac-
think that leads us to our true considered radical and ex- to serve as a bulwark against The project has already post- tion, against critical race the-
north, which is democracy.” treme,” Douglas said. “But racist misinformation, with ed a couple of representative ory are not going away. That
that’s part of our job as jour- truth-telling explanatory vid- pieces. To mark the one-year drumbeat is continuing and
The original Emancipa- nalists — providing those eos and articles, she added. anniversary of the Jan. 6 in- so therefore our drumbeat
tor was founded in 1820 in tools, those perspectives that It’ll take a critical look at pop- surrection at the U.S. Capitol needs to continue.”