Kelly Macias's Profile
Staff Writer at Daily Kos focusing on racial justice, social justice and gender issues.
Groups: Black Kos community, LatinoKos, Connect! Unite! Act!, SOS Puerto Rico
Twitter: @kelmacias
Diaries published: 801 (1936 days since last diary on Fri Mar 01, 2019 at 11:38 AM PST)
Comments posted: 234 (1944 days since last comment on Thu Feb 21, 2019 at 02:31 PM PST)
Diary frequency: frequent
Comment frequency: often
Total Recommends: 41
Total Comment Ratings: 0
Most Recommended Diary: 'He was a quiet and normal kid': The infantilization of young, white, male domestic terrorists, 465 comments, 469 recommends
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Though Brown v. Board of Education established that segregated schools are unconstitutional back in 1954, we’ve made little progress toward improving educational opportunity for students of color in America since then. According to writer and MacArthur...
by Kelly Macias
 58 comments
on Fri Mar 01, 2019 at 11:38 AM PST
with 87 Recommends
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Dr. Bill Jenkins devoted most of his professional life to addressing racism in health care. While he had many accomplishments over the course of his extraordinary career, he was best known for trying to put an end to the Tuskegee Experiment, an...
by Kelly Macias
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on Tue Feb 26, 2019 at 02:40 PM PST
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In 2019, it’s hard to believe that we are still dealing with measles outbreaks in the United States. After all, the disease was officially declared eliminated almost 20 years ago. Since that time, cases have been relatively few in number and contained,...
by Kelly Macias
325 comments
on Tue Feb 26, 2019 at 10:41 AM PST
with 146 Recommends
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For the last 20 years, abortion has been a major focus in Matt Bowman’s life. But he has not been on the side of protecting abortion access and reproductive justice. Between 1996 and 2001, Bowman ...
by Kelly Macias
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on Mon Feb 25, 2019 at 05:10 PM PST
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Women’s reproductive health is in jeopardy all across the country, but is especially precarious in Texas. In 2016, the state made headlines for a study by the Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Task Force which claimed the state had the highest...
by Kelly Macias
69 comments
on Mon Feb 25, 2019 at 03:24 PM PST
with 136 Recommends
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Spike Lee gives moving Oscar acceptance speech and egomaniac Trump whines, calling it a 'racist hit' At last night’s Academy Awards ceremony, Spike Lee won the Oscar for best adapted screenplay for the movie BlacKkKlansman. It was the director’s first-ever competitive win, though he has been nominated multiple times and was given an honorary award for...
by Kelly Macias
207 comments
on Mon Feb 25, 2019 at 09:23 AM PST
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- As executive director of the New Georgia Project, Nse Ufot is making remarkable strides in reshaping the political landscape in Georgia. She oversees NGP's efforts to expand the voting power and political influence of black, Asian, and Latinx people by...10 comments 81 Recs
- The National Week of Action to End Southeast Asian Deportations began on Saturday, Jan. 19. Thirteen organizations across the country are uniting in 15 cities to uplift Southeast Asian-American communities as they continue to be terrorized by mass...163 comments 233 Recs
- Every election cycle, I hear (and voice) complaints about Democratic leadership's utter failure to connect with Black voters. They often don't spend the time building relationship with us before they need our votes. It feels like they parachute into...63 comments 141 Recs
- Less than a month before the midterm elections, the U.S. Supreme Court denied the Native American Rights Fund’s (NARF) emergency application to stop North Dakota from implementing a discriminatory law requiring that a physical address be listed on each...171 comments 484 Recs
- In January of 2006, as dozens of anti-gay marriage amendments were sweeping through the states, I began covering the LGBTQ movement for a local New York City paper. With the darkest days of a decade-long plague that decimated our community behind us,...79 comments 201 Recs
- This post was written and reported by freelance contributor A. Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez through our new Daily Kos freelance program. The United States has faced a lot of polarizing issues in its history, but few have been as significant as the...8 comments 73 Recs
- When I flew to Washington, DC, on Monday, to protest Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation hearings, I wasn't sure what my role would be. A number of organizations planned dozens of events and actions, so I signed up to volunteer and help out...151 comments 386 Recs
- Have you ever noticed how people in charge love to point to the notion of “civility” when things are getting out of their control? This is exactly the game that the Right has been playing since the most uncouth man of all became the leader of the...7 comments 24 Recs
- As Labor Day was winding down, I noticed an uptick in posts about Nike and Colin Kaepernick. The football player, who was essentially ostracized by the NFL once his kneeling protests during the national anthem drew ire from angry white people, is the...119 comments 53 Recs
- Campaign Action Wildfires continue to ravage California. Instead of hiring firefighters to put out the fires, the government is turning to incarcerated people for labor. More than 3,400 prisoners risk their lives every day to tackle the wildfires....77 comments 90 Recs
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