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Marissa 💃🏾

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Journalist. Illustrator. Californian. Love traveling, baking, films, painting, books, stationery, archives, museums + hot wings.

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Marissa 💃🏾

3 years

My dear father Gary Evans died of COVID-19/pneumonia complications Jan. 29. He was 70. I wrote for @latimes about what his death has meant for me as a daughter and health reporter. He was my biggest fan. I’ll be heartbroken until the end of my days.

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The way we lose Black men never makes sense. Losing my father to COVID is another example

Marissa Evans' father began 2022 eating apple pie and feeling like it would be their family's year. He died of COVID-19 before the end of January.

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Marissa 💃🏾

3 years

If we really want to fix journalism we should provide trauma informed training for entry level reporters before sending them to knock on doors of people who just lost loved ones. We treat it like a rite of passage when in reality it’s traumatizing for all parties involved.

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Marissa 💃🏾

4 years

Been thinking a lot about the heaviness of grief among Black folks in 2020. I wrote for @TheAtlantic about the Black bereavement crisis we’re facing and what it means to not have the privilege or time to grieve in a year amplified by losses.

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The Relentlessness of Black Grief

We are in the middle of a Black bereavement crisis, and we do not have the privilege or time to grieve.

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Marissa 💃🏾

4 years

After a decade away I’m going back to my home state to be an @latimes health reporter. I’ll be doing enterprise reporting on race, public health + more in Los Angeles + statewide. It’s a job family, friends and mentors have said: “Marissa, this is you.”

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Marissa Evans joins The Times as a health reporter focusing on communities of color

Evans comes to the L.A. Times from the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, where she writes about social issues and has been at the center of both their pandemic coverage and reporting on the killing of...

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2 years

I spoke to @Oprah for @latimes about executive producing @SmithsonianChan ’s #thecolorofcare , the pandemic and her reflections on how her privilege has shaped her healthcare for better and for worse. Thank you Ms. Winfrey for being so kind and candid.

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A doctor told Oprah to 'embrace hunger.' How it changed her view of medicine forever

Ahead of a new documentary about racial inequities in healthcare, the TV host opens up to The Times about her own experiences.

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Marissa 💃🏾

4 years

2020 will be marked as a particularly trying year of Black mourning from family/friends lost to COVID-19 plus George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Kobe Bryant, Chadwick Boseman to countless other folks. The stresses of grieving folks we know personally or afar is real.

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2 years

How did this interview with @Oprah for @latimes come about? She read my essay about my father’s death. She noted she is the same as he was where birthdays are not a big deal. But she was struck realizing he died on her birthday.

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The way we lose Black men never makes sense. Losing my father to COVID is another example

Marissa Evans' father began 2022 eating apple pie and feeling like it would be their family's year. He died of COVID-19 before the end of January.

www.latimes.com

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Marissa 💃🏾

5 years

Really curious about a follow-up story on how many state attorney general offices go after people for price gouging hand sanitizer and masks when health care workers are rationing the ones they have amid the shortage.

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2 years

Can’t begin to tell y’all how much it breaks my heart to see Black men dying in their 50s like this.

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Los Angeles Times

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Rapper Coolio, a Compton native known for hits "Gangsta's Paradise" and "Fantastic Voyage," is dead at 59.

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3 years

When I read two years ago about @DrBurkeHarris becoming California’s first surgeon general I knew I wanted to write a profile on her. For @latimes I talked to her about leading in a pandemic, health inequities and how she was born to be a doctor.

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'Heartbreak on top of heartbreak': California's first surgeon general navigates the pandemic

Dr. Nadine Burke Harris has become one of the nation's most influential public health figures while guiding California's efforts during the pandemic.

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Marissa 💃🏾

4 years

It’s my first day today working for @latimes ! 🎉 Send hello and your health related hot takes, scoops, tips, public records ideas: marissa.evans @latimes .com

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1 year

I wrote for @latimes about my love for @Beyonce and watching her perform on her birthday at a time when too many Black women don’t get to grow older or be celebrated for who they are. The BeyHive protects her because her existence and music is a refuge.

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Beyoncé's birthday Renaissance show celebrated the depths of Black womanhood

Watching Beyoncé at the Renaissance tour is an exercise in ripping open and throwing aside the boxes of ourselves and leaving them strewn among folding fans and silver sequins.

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Marissa 💃🏾

4 years

Wrote for @zoramag about my mom working for JCPenney’s catalog department after years as a stay at home mom + how retail stores closing means women losing a chance at economic independence and launching their careers. Big thanks to my editor @Tapperific .

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What We Lose When Retail Stores Disappear

Second-act careers for women vanish with the demise of department stores and malls

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4 years

I’m aware the Biden-Harris transition plan website is newly up but as a housing reporter I immediately noticed there’s nothing on there about how they’ll address the eviction crisis that’s coming because of the pandemic.

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Marissa 💃🏾

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Thrilled I'm going to be @StarTribune 's social issues reporter starting April 8. I'm covering public health, housing, affordability + equity. Lots of enterprise reporting awaits. Excited to call the Midwest home again (thank goodness I still have my winter coats from MKE).

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Marissa 💃🏾

2 years

I spoke with Emmett Till’s family for @latimes about calls for an “Emmett Till moment” after the Uvalde school shooting. They’re unsure if showing gruesome images of how the kids died will have the same effect as seeing Emmett’s face did in 1955.

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After Uvalde shooting, people consider an 'Emmett Till moment' to change gun debate

After Uvalde, relatives of Emmett Till are unsure releasing images of the dead children will help.

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7 years

Humbled to share my @TexasTribune project on why Texas women face pregnancy complications or death from childbirth. Took months of interviews to understand scope of how Texas got here, where Texas has failed women and how families are impacted.

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Is Texas doing enough to stop moms from dying?

The number of Texas women dying during or soon after giving birth has been rising, and The Texas Tribune spent months investigating possible reasons behind the increase. The bottom line: women’s...

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Marissa 💃🏾

3 years

The thing about @nhannahjones ’s statement is more Black women are saying “I refuse” when it comes to fixing institutional and structural inequities that institutions rigidly choose to not fix despite our blueprints and memos to solve them. I for one am here for this movement.

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Marissa 💃🏾

8 months

Last month I interviewed @Usher (!) for @latimes . He lit a candle, sat down next to me and we talked about his new album, the Vegas residency, his voice and his ideas around love and romance. I’ll be thinking about this interview for a long time.

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Marissa 💃🏾

4 years

Have long maintained Meghan Markle was a great writer and was admittedly sad when she went to the royal family that she likely wouldn’t be able to publish much anymore. Saddened by her NYT op-ed today but I wouldn’t be surprised if writing is a healing/coping mechanism for her.

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Marissa 💃🏾

4 years

If a manager tells you you’re “not ready” for an opportunity (a beat, a new skill, a longform story) ask them how they’ll help you get ready. Don’t let other people limit your ambitions.

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Journalists: Share one piece of advice you want to give to up-and-coming journalists about networking & professionalism

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6 years

“I was 218 pounds the day I gave birth to Rumi and Sir. I was swollen from toxemia and had been on bed rest for over a month. My health and my babies’ health were in danger, so I had an emergency C-section.”

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Beyoncé in Her Own Words: Her Life, Her Body, Her Heritage

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Marissa 💃🏾

4 years

Happy Monday. The loud sound of joy you're hearing is every Black woman in America shouting/screaming for @nhannjones winning a Pulitzer.

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Nikole Hannah-Jones of The New York Times

For a sweeping, provocative and personal essay for the ground-breaking 1619 Project, which seeks to place the enslavement of Africans at the center of America’s story, prompting public conversation...

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4 years

Kirstin Johnson-Nixon worried she might get COVID-19. Then her dad tested positive for it in May. Then her mom. Then her. Then her husband. Then their kids. My story w/ @MaryJoWebster @mikejcorey on @StarTribune front page w/ their data analysis.

People of color hit harder by COVID-19 in Twin Cities, ZIP code data confirm

Black and Hispanic Minnesotans are far more likely to be infected than white Minnesotans, state data show.

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Marissa 💃🏾

3 years

For now, ending this thread with a glorious photo of my parents young and in love in Brooklyn. I wish I could ask my father about his hat in this photo. I only ever saw him in baseball caps.

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Marissa 💃🏾

3 years

Being Black in America is a daily exercise in enduring trauma of the past and present and hoping there will be enough strength left for the future.

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Marissa 💃🏾

4 years

The Atlanta shooting is highlighting the barriers to mental health care Asian communities face: lack of Asian mental health workers, language barriers and ignorance about traumas they’ve faced in America. My first @latimes story on today’s front page.

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After Atlanta-area attacks, Asian communities reckon with mental health crises

The emotional toll of the Atlanta-area attacks and COVID-19 grief is amplifying longtime inequities in mental health care available for Asian communities.

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Marissa 💃🏾

6 years

@Nicole_Cliffe @kevinpokeeffe @redroomrantings I screamed.I need this level of competitiveness going into 2019.

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To have @Beyonce AND @serenawilliams not only LANDING THE COVERS OF @voguemagazine but also opening up about their pregnancy complications as black women within MONTHS of each other is powerful and wild and shows black women maternal morbidity is unkind to so many black moms.

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4 years

The POCs at @StarTribune have been doing a lot of work in recent weeks to reimagine diversity, equity and coverage in our newsroom. Humbled to be part of that team + write opening words of the diversity blueprint we’re releasing today. Change is coming.

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Marissa 💃🏾

8 years

Apparently @MillerForTexas deleted his tweet using the c-word. No worries, we have screenshots/receipts.

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8 years

Shout out to @nytimes for this well said news alert on Carrie Fisher. Translation: She didn't just do the thing, she did the damn thing.

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3 years

My father was retired. He was learning Spanish and French on Rosetta Stone and YouTube. He had just started working on his novel last summer. He still wanted to take our mom to Spain. I don’t care what anyone says, 70 feels too soon to be gone.

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3 years

Really wild after all of these years writing and reading about maternal health that it’s considered a health innovation to save Black mothers from dying of childbirth. Just save Black mothers. Just listen to Black mothers when they say something is wrong.

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The New York Times

3 years

Normalizing masks. Safer childbirth for Black mothers. mRNA vaccines for cancers. Robot surgeons? In the last century, the average human life expectancy doubled. Here's @NYTMag 's list of 43 innovations that could help us do it again — maybe.

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6 years

Lyft driver: “You on your way to school?” Me: *cackles* I’m on my way to work. I’m a journalist with @TexasTribune . Her: “WOW. You go girl!” **points out @TexasTribune sign as we pull up** Her: “Dang girl, that’s a big building!” She will forever be my favorite Lyft driver.

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4 years

This reminds me of all of the times I’ve been told I “wasn’t ready” for an opportunity and had to quadruple efforts to prove myself. I wish journalists of color were extended this kind of grace, potential and right to correct period.

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Marissa 💃🏾

3 years

I keep looking at this photo I took of my father the day before my birthday in December. A copy is now in my living room and I keep looking at it and saying “I’m really just supposed to go on without you?”

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3 years

DMX’s death is heartbreaking and speaks to how addiction is an ongoing journey and how often Black people are not always given the grace they deserve when dealing with addiction.

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7 years

@Nicole_Cliffe One comment says "I would suggest getting therapy and learning how to be an empathetic and compassionate person - right now you are not a good person." I almost need to save this somewhere.

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8 months

It’s never the best time to announce this but been meaning to share I received a layoff notice from @latimes last month. Not ideal, some feelings about it, but alas, we move. A quick thread on what I’m thinking about next. Walk with me. 🧵

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4 years

My story on grief/trauma in the black community after George Floyd died is on @StarTribune front page today. Grateful for radically honest conversation @_nessiethegreat and I had about this and what it means. Will be thinking about this interview often.

"I'm in danger just living in America": For black community, Floyd's death brings more grief and...

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3 years

One more thing about vaccine side effects issue: Rest is considered a luxury for people with low-income. It shouldn’t be but in our capitalist society, it is. It’s unsurprising someone who isn’t vaccinated yet might delay because it’s deal with side effects or be short on rent.

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Marissa 💃🏾

3 years

I moved back to California in June. Whenever I visited my parents’ house my father would say “bring it in, bring it in” and give me a big hug. He only ever gave me two nicknames in life. “Peach” because I always chose her in Mario Kart and “Front Page” because of my stories.

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Marissa 💃🏾

3 years

A reminder for those who need it that you don’t have to watch the Adam Toledo, Daunte Wright or other footage if you don’t want to. Bearing witness isn’t just watching videos, it’s also for feeling the pain and trauma of those impacted by these events. That’s oftentimes enough.

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7 years

Puts the whole “it is not the end of the world to be attacked as the bigot he surely is” line into mad perspective.

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Marissa 💃🏾

3 years

As I wrote in @latimes : “How much longer could [Black boys and men] live if they knew the world wanted them to have openly human experiences of breathing, crying, grieving, being cared for and being heard?”

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Marissa 💃🏾

3 years

The Olympics has a lot of news coming out of it but one of the running themes I’m seeing is women competing and expressing their agency to the fullest about what they need to compete and making sure they’re heard regardless of outcome.

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Marissa 💃🏾

4 years

@JessicaValenti There’s a lot going on here but the gag is he assumes that she’ll forgive him and thinks she should. This is the second or third AITA post in recent months about men policing /mansplaining how menstrual products work. What a time.

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Marissa 💃🏾

3 years

Grieving has been lonely, disappointing and many moments of deep sadness, crying and dishes piling up. I’m eating but little tastes good. I’ve stared at trees and birds hoping to see a sign of my father. The pain of those first days without him hits me out of no where.

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Marissa 💃🏾

3 years

I’m sharing my family’s ordeal with COVID-19 because it’s important to show how heartbreaking it is to lose a loved one in this way. What’s more, I know how much my father wanted to be heard, understood and seen when he went to the doctor. He deserved that and more.

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Marissa 💃🏾

3 years

My father had pre-existing conditions so he was at risk if he had COVID-19. He was vaccinated + boosted. Despite the moments the healthcare system had let him down before the pandemic, my father still attempted to have faith. I’m angry we were robbed of him.

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3 years

My father was endlessly proud of me. There are many strangers who walked in Seaport Village or Balboa Park who happened to talk to a Black man with a Marquette hat who had three kids, including one who is “an award winning journalist.” He said he “had to throw that in there.”

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Marissa 💃🏾

2 years

@Phil_Lewis_ Born and raised in El Cajon! 🙋🏾‍♀️We’re not near the tourist spots/beaches, we’re more inland so El Cajon, La Mesa, Lemon Grove, Spring Valley, Chula Vista, etc. But we do exist 😂

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Marissa 💃🏾

3 years

The International Swimming Federation using “natural form of the head” sounds alarmingly like something out of medical journals in the 1800s when white physicians were testing if enslaved Black people felt pain and actually comparing their skull sizes.

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Marissa 💃🏾

3 years

I’m resharing my 2018 @TheAtlantic story on Black women and swim caps given the news cycle we’re in.

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Swim Caps Are Keeping Black Women Out of Pools

Their limited design is yet another contributor to America’s racial disparities in swimming.

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Marissa 💃🏾

3 years

After seeing @Grammarly on TV I tested it for a project I’m working on. The program suggested I consider “simpler alternatives” for words like intersectionalities and microaggressions. It also suggested using “farm” or “ranch” when I referenced plantations. I just…

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3 years

He was supposed to hold up the bookstore line to show people when I wrote my first book. We needed more long phone calls. My father would say “Marissa, I could talk to you all day.” I just learned to make chicken pot pies so he wouldn’t buy the bad frozen ones. I’m devastated.

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Marissa 💃🏾

6 years

Made it through my @ONA Awards speech without ugly crying to talk about how proud I am @TexasTribune supported + believed in Dangerous Deliveries. Big hugs @CEssig @AlexSamuelsx5 @dkharmon and all who helped bring this to life. We hope it continues to help moms + families. #OJA18

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7 years

Wondering how diverse the candidate search will be to replace @CecileRichards . Lots of convos happening around bringing more women of color into the fold/activism around reproductive rights. Will be curious to see if that extends to putting more in leadership roles.

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4 years

Everyone say hi to my editor @JamesEliShiffer .

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Do you work in a newsroom? Be like @marissaaevans 's editor.

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Marissa 💃🏾

3 years

We’ve lost four family members since the pandemic started including my mom’s uncle, my maternal grandmother, my father + an aunt. My father and aunt died from COVID-19. Half of the people we’ve lost since 2020 have died from COVID. I know other families have lost so many more.

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3 years

My father loved the Weather Channel and told me the weather in places I used to live in like Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Austin and DC. He loved baseball and his favorite player was Roberto Clemente. His favorite book was “The Hobbit” but he read “Lord of the Rings” multiple times.

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3 years

My father grew up in 1950s Bed-Stuy Brooklyn. He survived a heart attack, a stroke, kidney cancer and prostate cancer. He had always pulled through other health issues. We hoped and planned as if he’d walk out of the hospital ICU, breathing on his own and COVID free.

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Marissa 💃🏾

6 months

Last year I watched @BLACCHYNA ’s video showing her filler removal and was moved by how assured she was during the procedure. I knew I wanted to write a profile about her. Grateful for our conversation for @latimes about beauty, sobriety, faith and more.

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3 years

To be clear, even with this verdict Minneapolis will be working to heal for a long time and it truly might not happen in our lifetime. This city is forever changed.

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Marissa 💃🏾

2 years

I really wonder how much history is tucked away in an unmarked folder that’s in a box in some courthouse or government office.

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philip lewis

2 years

Wow: A original 1955 warrant for the arrest of Carolyn Bryant Donham, the white woman who accused 14-year-old Emmett Till, was found in the basement of a Mississippi courthouse Till's relatives want authorities to finally arrest her nearly 70 years later

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3 years

Waited two weeks and I’m fully vaccinated as of today. I got the Johnson & Johnson vaccine through a local CVS in a Target dressing room stall (very poetic for folks who know my love for Target well). I know the value of hearing other people’s experience so wanted to share. 🧵

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2 years

The discussion about Abbott Elementary doing an episode on school shootings is another example of how often people hope Black women will “say the thing” or “do the thing” like the odds are inherently in our favor when we speak up with or without a platform.

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Marissa 💃🏾

3 years

I applied to be EIC of my college newspaper. Had ideas, had more internships (five!) than the other white male candidate and wasn’t chosen because of “concerns” from the board I wasn’t collaborative. Would’ve been the first Black woman to have the role in its 100 year history.

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How many Black journalists — Black people in general— have experienced being told or insinuated that they didn’t deserve a role or opportunity?

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3 years

I’ve been a health reporter for almost a decade and the foundation of my work has always been my father. The spark came in summer 2010 when my father told me in a Little Caesar’s Pizza parking lot that he had kidney and prostate cancer. (Delivering bad news wasn’t his thing)

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6 years

Judge Ezra issues a permanent injunction on Texas' fetal remains rule. Says the rule is "well-intentioned" but "problematic and presently unworkable" and would be "catastrophic" for women in Texas. #txlege

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3 years

In Minneapolis right now and just heard my neighbors screaming as the verdict notifications came through.

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Los Angeles Times

3 years

Breaking: The jury in the trial of Derek Chauvin convicted the former Minneapolis police officer of murder in the death of George Floyd

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6 years

@TracieHunte She’s that high level, next level scammer. Like, she may have just changed the game!

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Marissa 💃🏾

2 years

Gentle reminder to folks that you don’t have to watch the video of Tyre Nichols if you don’t want to do so. You’re not in less community with others for not watching it and taking care of yourself. For those who are planning to watch it, please take care of yourself.

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Marissa 💃🏾

2 years

Months before my father died I learned to make chicken pot pies so he wouldn’t buy the frozen ones and he really loved them. I made a chicken pot pie to mark what would’ve been his 71st birthday this past week and Father’s Day (it was one of my best 🥧). I love you, Dad.

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Marissa 💃🏾

3 years

My dear father Gary Evans died of COVID-19/pneumonia complications Jan. 29. He was 70. I wrote for @latimes about what his death has meant for me as a daughter and health reporter. He was my biggest fan. I’ll be heartbroken until the end of my days.

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Marissa 💃🏾

6 years

I’m mindful not every black woman gets attention when she dies from or endures pregnancy complications but I’d argue having @Beyonce + @serenawilliams sharing their stories in TWO @voguemagazine issues is going to bring more attention to black maternal mortality/morbidity.

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Marissa 💃🏾

3 years

I wish “Live Laugh Love” Twitter would leave us all alone with the toxic positivity. Yes, we are attempting to survive a pandemic but we can still acknowledge things are a mess right now.

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Marissa 💃🏾

3 years

I wish more fellowship programs realized some fellows just need funding rather than forcing mentorship, group reflection and extra assignments/tasks on them. Forms of guidance and resources should be offered but fellows should have autonomy on how they use these tools.

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Marissa 💃🏾

4 years

TW: Suicide attempt I wrote for @elemental about how suicide attempt survivors navigate the stress of their medical debt, an important but underreported topic. Big thanks to the survivors and experts who spoke to me + my editor on this @acsifferlin .

How Suicide Fuels Medical Debt

Americans who attempt to end their life are often sent medical bills for subsequent care that create financial turmoil and more stress

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Marissa 💃🏾

4 years

It’s official: @StarTribune is capitalizing the B for Black from this day forward. We still have work to do on diversity and equity in the newsroom but this is a start.

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Marissa 💃🏾

3 years

Dad informed me he downloaded the @latimes mobile app. Me: “You did?!” Dad: “You work there! Of course!”

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Marissa 💃🏾

6 months

Yesterday was my last day with @latimes . I’m looking forward to answering the big question ahead. Who will I be now that I am free? I’m excited to find out while freelance writing + illustrating. You can keep up with me with my newsletter here:

Marissa Evans Newsletter

A newsletter on media, health, culture and some illustrations in between.

marissaevans.myflodesk.com

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Marissa 💃🏾

8 months

It’s never the best time to announce this but been meaning to share I received a layoff notice from @latimes last month. Not ideal, some feelings about it, but alas, we move. A quick thread on what I’m thinking about next. Walk with me. 🧵

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Marissa 💃🏾

4 years

I just want to know how in the year 2021 someone in editorial leadership could have the confidence to tell a candidate this and not blink. Make the publication public and let journalists of color and others who care about diversity decide if they want to work for this org.

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Matt Krupnick

4 years

The editor went on to explain why he was reluctant to bring in diverse journalists. "I don't want them writing about racial justice and stuff like that. That's not what we do here." 3/

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Marissa 💃🏾

3 years

Education is a beat that deserves to be elevated in more newsrooms. It’s no accident some of the best reporters in the industry right now are education reporters or have a strong background in education reporting.

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Lily Altavena

3 years

Wow, just a classic example of a man dismissing education as "women's work" or not important. I can't stand one more day of people disregarding education journalism because of their own internalized misogyny.

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Marissa 💃🏾

3 years

The journalists sharing stories debate is also arguably a media literacy issue too. Audiences don’t always realize not all newsrooms allow that practice and not all journalists ask if an interviewee has ever been interviewed before to make sure they understand the process.

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Marissa 💃🏾

3 years

Sacrifice implies he had a choice.

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Alex Moe

3 years

. @SpeakerPelosi speaking at presser with CBC: Thank you George Floyd for sacrificing your life for justice...Because of you and because of thousands, millions of people around the world who came out for justice, your name will always be synonymous for justice.

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Marissa 💃🏾

4 years

This is a renaissance period for Black women in media and I’m proud to bear witness to it. Let Black women lead and watch what happens.

@TheCut

The Cut

4 years

We’re thrilled to welcome Lindsay Peoples Wagner back to @TheCut , where she’ll be editor-in-chief

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Marissa 💃🏾

3 years

For @latimes subscriber exclusive and on the front page today I talked to COVID-19 vaccinated parents delaying weaning — and mixing human milk in their kids’ cereal — to pass on antibodies. To them, it’s the best protection they can give younger kids.

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Breastfeeding and vaxxed: Parents delay weaning children to pass on COVID-19 antibodies

Vaccinated parents say they are continuing to give human milk to their young children beyond six months or a year to protect them from COVID-19.

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Marissa 💃🏾

4 years

Friends: Thanks to my @StarTribune story on how hospitals in Minnesota can take tax refunds for unpaid medical debt, just got word a reader has officially paid off Jean’s last payments for her debt. This is why local news matters.

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Marissa 💃🏾

4 years

Jean Hehn is making payments on $3,400 in medical debt. Using Minnesota’s Revenue Recapture program, the private hospital she’s paying back filed to get Hehn’s state tax refund. She hasn’t seen her refund in four years. My story for @StarTribune .

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Marissa 💃🏾

5 years

Even in just this small snippet you can see the genuine pain she’s felt. Good for @tombradby to ask her.

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ITV News

5 years

"Not many people have asked if I’m ok ... it’s a very real thing to be going through behind the scenes." Meghan reveals to ITV's @tombradby the intense media spotlight has left her struggling to cope while becoming a mum #HarryAndMeghan

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Marissa 💃🏾

6 years

“She’s never ladylike enough. No matter how many times she twirls girlishly with her trophies, she’s never dainty enough. She’s never white enough. And what’s more, she refuses to shrink away in shame, or be anything other than herself.”

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Serena Williams is owed an apology for much more than a penalty

It’s a tale as old as the legend of the Williams sisters: Anticipating the animus they would face if they ever became successful on the world stage, their fathe…

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Marissa 💃🏾

3 years

Did not steal anyone’s son at the wedding I went to today but the selfies were too good not to post.

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Marissa 💃🏾

7 years

It's buffering.

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Marissa 💃🏾

3 years

You really couldn’t tell me anything as a little girl when I had a full set of flower and teddy bear hair clips in. AN👏🏾Y👏🏾THING👏🏾!

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zellie

3 years

I can hear this picture 😭

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Marissa 💃🏾

4 years

Our @StarTribune leadership has made good on one of our newsroom diversity proposals: Naming @KyndellHarkness our first assistant managing editor for diversity and community. No one better to lead and guide us in the revolution.

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Marissa 💃🏾

3 years

I think this is an important conversation to have in our industry. But as someone who has moved multiple times and swiped their debit card on a prayer to move across country, drained savings and dipped into their 401k, companies need to overhaul how they do moving expenses.

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Also if you are trying to become a journalist and you're not willing to move for your next job.... you are missing out on opportunities. Small/mid-sized markets deserve great journalism too and are great options to cut your teeth, try a new discipline or just make an impact.

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Marissa 💃🏾

4 years

Remember my @startribune story about how private hospitals in Minnesota can take people’s tax refunds for unpaid medical debt? Some #mnleg lawmakers were shocked seeing the story and have filed bills to end the practice. My friend @jessvanb has details.

Your source for Minnesota news today. Read articles, view photos or watch videos about news in Minneapolis, St. Paul, Duluth, St. Cloud, Rochester, and beyond.

www.startribune.com

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Marissa 💃🏾

4 years

Jean Hehn is making payments on $3,400 in medical debt. Using Minnesota’s Revenue Recapture program, the private hospital she’s paying back filed to get Hehn’s state tax refund. She hasn’t seen her refund in four years. My story for @StarTribune .

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Marissa 💃🏾

4 years

Making progress in the money in journalism conversation requires dismantling the idea journalism is solely “a calling” instead of a business and there’s supplementary work often required to achieve the time, resources and creative freedom desired to tell the stories you want.

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Marissa 💃🏾

3 years

I wrote for @latimes ’ front page today on COVID-19 vaccine rates for Black and Latino males in Los Angeles County are rising but not by enough. Part of the issue: they’re frustrated public health officials only pay attention to them in times of crisis.

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As more L.A. County Black and Latino men get the COVID-19 vaccine, distrust lingers

Vaccination rates are up, but there's fear Black and Latino men will continue waiting until they almost die from COVID-19 or watch people they know die before getting vaccinated.

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Marissa 💃🏾

6 years

@TracieHunte That’s the thing! It’s like, do you keep up the accent because the hot man likes it? Or do you show him who you really are? The plot twists are endless. I’ve never watched The Bachelor and I’m now a fan.

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