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A tale of two media women
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Me, left, and Bari Weiss, right, in 2017.
Back in 2017 I was part of a panel moderated by a New York Times Opinion...
Starved, smashed and bloodied: The violence at ICE’s Delaney Hall
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Protesters and ICE agents outside Delaney Hall Wednesday evening. (Marisa Kabas)
Doremus Avenue is a two and half m...
Kat Abughazaleh shows us how to fight fascists
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For the last seven months, Kat Abughazaleh wasn’t allowed to go to Alaska. It’s not that she had any particular reas...
Hating AI is good, actually
[Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt while being booed]
Jonah Peretti is very lucky. Buzzfeed—the viral media company he founded 20 years ago and was once valued at $1.6 billion—was running out of cash when billionaire Byron Allen agreed to buy 52%...
From Selma to Montgomery, Alabama marches for civil rights once again
This is a guest post written and reported by Solomon Crenshaw Jr.
Crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge, May 16, 2026. (Photo by Solomon Crenshaw Jr.)
Drive from Birmingham to Selma on Alabama’s Highway 22 and you’ll certainly pass Selma Root...
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Authors
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Hello! I’m Marisa Kabas, a Brooklyn-based independent writer and reporter. After watching the journalism infrastructure crumble over the last decade, I decided that I needed to have a place where I could share my work and thoughts no matter what. Thus, The Handbasket was born. When I launched in Ju... more
Solomon Crenshaw Jr. is a Birmingham, Alabama native who is a veteran of 48 years in journalism. The son of a Baptist pastor, he worked 37 years for The Birmingham News and AL.com and now operates under the banner of his business, SCJr. Content Providers, writing stories, snapping photos and shootin... more
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