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Suzette Hackney

National Columnist at USA Today

National columnist @USATODAY. Truth seeker. Deep thinker. Storyteller. @michiganstateu Spartan. @butleru MFA alum. Dave Matthews Band extremist. DMs are open.

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  • 2 weeks ago | usatoday.com | Suzette Hackney

    I often think about the tree I planted – with the assistance of my maternal grandmother – in the back yard of my childhood home. I brought the sapling home from school. My third-grade teacher, Mrs. Stevens, always had a side-hustle project for those of us interested in learning about nature and how to grow things. We would stay after school, feeding our caterpillars milkweed plants, and watching them eventually metamorphose into a chrysalis and finally into a Monarch butterfly.

  • 2 weeks ago | usatoday.com | Suzette Hackney

    DEMING, Washington – The knock came exactly at 5 p.m. on April 1. The loud bang-bang seemed to suck all the oxygen out of the three-bedroom, 1,200-square-foot ranch home. I watched as Elizabeth Oshiro shuddered and then took a deep breath, trying to reclaim some of that oxygen, before walking to the door. Oshiro, 56, knew the time had come to let go. She had to say goodbye to a house where she cared for her aging parents until they died.

  • Jan 19, 2025 | msn.com | Suzette Hackney

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  • Jan 19, 2025 | usatoday.com | Suzette Hackney

    The date was Aug. 28, 1963. An quarter of a million people came to Washington D.C. on a sun-filled day to march for jobs and civil rights. The peaceful protest culminated with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and delivering a stirring speech that would forever change America. In August as he ran for president a third time, Donald Trump compared his crowd size on Jan. 6, 2021 to the throngs who gathered to hear Martin Luther King Jr.'s iconic speech.

  • Dec 9, 2024 | usatoday.com | Suzette Hackney

    Days after the presidential election, Kelley Glover started having nightmares that would jolt her from sleep. Her subconscious conjured large monsters that were chasing people. But she did nothing to help them escape to safety. She looked on with sadness from a distance. “They weren’t after me – they were going after everybody else,” Glover said of the creatures in her dreams.

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Suzette Hackney
Suzette Hackney @suzyscribe
5 Mar 25

RT @idreesali114: WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 04: U.S. President Donald Trump arrives for his speech to a joint session of Congress as Rep. Mela…

Suzette Hackney
Suzette Hackney @suzyscribe
28 Feb 25

RT @kaitlancollins: The Ukrainian ambassador had her head in her hands by this point. https://t.co/AhnsgWbqOb

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Suzette Hackney @suzyscribe
28 Feb 25

My god.