Karen Attiah

United States

Columnist and Newsletter Writer at The Washington Post

Ghanaian. Nigerian. Texan. Amateur fighter. Lifter of Weights. Insta: @karenattiah Columnist: @washingtonpost

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Articles

With his marathon speech, Cory Booker showed us how to fight

2 weeks ago | phillytrib.com | Karen Attiah

Anyone who has been a fighter knows that cardio wins fights. You can have the skill, the size and the muscles — but if you gas out before your opponent does, you’ll probably lose. For more than 25 hours, from Monday at 7 p.m. until Tuesday at 8:05 p.m., Sen. Cory Booker, D-New Jersey, displayed a historic level of legitimate cardio — stamina — speaking on the Senate floor against the Trump administration’s onslaught against everything Washington. His marathon address broke the record set by Sen.
With his marathon speech, Cory Booker showed us how to fight

2 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Karen Attiah

With his marathon speech, Cory Booker showed us how to fight (washingtonpost.com) With his marathon speech, Cory Booker showed us how to fight By Karen Attiah 2025040320495600 Anyone who has been a fighter knows that cardio wins fights. You can have the skill, the size and the muscles — but if you gas out before your opponent does, you'll probably lose. For more than 25 hours, from Monday at 7 p.m. until Tuesday at 8:05 p.m., Sen.
We ignore the civil liberties boomerang at our peril

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Karen Attiah
Trump's segregationist agenda is a reaction to Obama

2 months ago | karenattiah.substack.com | Karen Attiah

Welcome back to A Luta Continua. In this week’s audio column, I discuss my latest op-ed for the Washington Post— language as resistance, why journalists should stop falling for the muddied anti-DEI rhetoric and call a spade a spade. We are not dealing with anti-DEI officials. We are dealing with a virulently segregationist regime.
Civil rights orgs sue Trump, A$AP Rocky verdict, Marla Gibbs honored

2 months ago | whatimreading.net | Phil Lewis |Craig Jenkins |Karen Attiah

President Donald Trump has railed against diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, but those who lead Black businesses say those programs never went far enough to truly help anyway, despite the good intentions. "DEI isn’t for us," Casey Cooper, who works in the long-haul trucking industry, told Reuters. "It looks good on paper, but that money doesn't go to us anyway."As news geared toward Black Americans shrinks, newsletters like this work to inform our community.
Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime performance was as Black and subversive as all get-out

2 months ago | phillytrib.com | Karen Attiah

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Assault on DEI is aimed at resegregation

2 months ago | phillytrib.com | Karen Attiah

A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research looks at what U.S. adults think about weight-loss drugs like Ozempic or Wegovy. (AP Video: Laura Bargfeld).
Kendrick Lamar's performance was as Black and subversive as all get-out

2 months ago | washingtonpost.com | Karen Attiah

"The revolution's about to be televised / You picked the right time / But the wrong guy."These were the words of Kendrick Lamar during his epic performance during the Super Bowl halftime show. And perhaps it's fitting that during the country's most-watched sports event, he artistically reminded us all that the place of Black people in America has always been under threat. And now, with an unmistakably white-supremacist administration at the helm, this is the right time.
The assault on DEI? It's aimed at resegregation.

2 months ago | washingtonpost.com | Karen Attiah

Across the United States, in government agencies and private corporations, leaders are scrambling to eliminate DEI programs. President Donald Trump is not only destroying any trace of diversity work within the government: He has ordered a review of federal contracts to identify any companies, nonprofits and foundations that do business with the government and keep their diversity, equity and inclusion programs, he has warned that they could be the target of investigations.
For Tulsa victims, must justice delayed be justice denied?

2 months ago | phillytrib.com | Karen Attiah

A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research looks at what U.S. adults think about weight-loss drugs like Ozempic or Wegovy. (AP Video: Laura Bargfeld).