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Mary C. Curtis, a columnist and podcast host at Roll Call, is an award-winning journalist and educator based in Charlotte, N.C., and Washington, D.C. Her coverage specialty is the intersection of politics, culture and race.
She has contributed to NBC News, NPR, The Washington Post, MSNBC, CNN, The Root, ESPN and talks politics on NPR-affiliate WFAE in Charlotte. A former Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, Curtis has worked at The New York Times, the Charlotte Observer, the Baltimore Sun, and the Associated Press, and was national correspondent for AOL’s Politics Daily.
Recent
Six Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police officers are at risk of being fired in the wake of racist text messages. The officers have been suspended without pay while they await hearings. The messages included use of the N-word and were found during an investigation into former CMPD officer Seth Elliot’s misuse of Flock...
Mary C. Curtis joins Neil Parekh as a Guest Co-Host for The Sunday NYTReadalong this week. (I will be traveling.) They’ll offer a remembrance of Dolly Parton, particularly her philanthropic work and the candor with which she discussed her struggles with depression; discuss Meta’s $17.1 Billion dollar settlement and the...
Rebellion and activism have always been necessary to move America toward progress, with always present obstacles to overcome, including violent opposition from those with their own view of what makes the country great. That truth, with all the contradictions that arise when ideals fail to match reality, is explored in...
Decorum. It’s a loaded word. According to one Merriam-Webster definition, it means “propriety and good taste in conduct or appearance.” According to Republican legislators who own a supermajority in their state house, it’s what their Democratic colleagues are lacking. Senate Speaker Randy McNally used the word in calling out, as he...
There was certainly a lot on the agenda when Pope Leo XIV recently met with Marco Rubio: The Pontiff sharing the message of the Gospel; the U.S. Secretary of State, a Catholic, trying his best, no doubt, to make peace after the American president dragged the Pope into a back-and-forth on war...
When Black women show up – as election workers, activists, advocates, voters – they make a difference. So, when they step forward, why do they so often meet resistance, not just from opponents, but also from supposed allies? And why has that never stopped them. Atima Omara’s new book, “The...