
Karen Attiah
Columnist and Newsletter Writer at The Washington Post
Ghanaian. Nigerian. Texan. Amateur fighter. Rogue Radical Professor: Resistance Summer School Columnist: @washingtonpost
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washingtonpost.com | Karen Attiah
The budding bromance between authoritarianism and tech (washingtonpost.com) The budding bromance between authoritarianism and tech By Karen Attiah 2025052911304500 When he started as a Post contributing columnist in the fall of 2017, Jamal Khashoggi was trying, constructively, to pierce the futuristic illusions about Saudi Arabia that Mohammed bin Salman was selling to the world.
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phillytrib.com | Karen Attiah
Singer André 3000 showed up with a grand piano strapped to his back, perhaps a reference to his carrying true music on his back for decades. But I have to say it was Black women who stunned the most at the recent Met Gala, one of fashion’s biggest nights of the year. Lupita Nyong’o brought out a light-blue suit with a flowing cape. A pregnant Rihanna showed off her baby bump in a formfitting skirt-suit with a cropped tuxedo jacket and dramatic wide-brimmed hat.
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1 month ago |
washingtonpost.com | Karen Attiah
The Met’s celebration of Black dandyism has a dark side (washingtonpost.com) The Met’s celebration of Black dandyism has a dark side By Karen Attiah 2025050617255400 Singer André 3000 showed up with a grand piano strapped to his back, perhaps a reference to his carrying true music on his back for decades. But I have to say it was Black women who stunned the most at Monday's Met Gala, one of fashion's biggest nights of the year.
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washingtonpost.com | Karen Attiah
‘Sinners’ is a Black challenge to white Christianity (washingtonpost.com) ‘Sinners’ is a Black challenge to white Christianity By Karen Attiah 2025043013300400 The great, pioneering Afrobeat musician Fela Kuti once said: "Music is a spiritual thing — you don't play with music. If you play with music, you will die young.
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karenattiah.substack.com | Karen Attiah
When I got the opportunity to teach at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) in the fall of 2023 for the spring 2024 semester, I was elated. My dream of teaching in a global environment had come true.
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