As the founding global opinion editor for The Washington Post, Karen Attiah believed her job had always been about assessing world affairs in a way that elevated a diverse range of perspectives.

“I’m not just a columnist,” she recently said.

But last week, the Post’s only Black female opinion writer revealed she had been fired over posts on Bluesky about violent white men in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s killing that the newspaper said violated its social media policy. After offering what she called an “honest reflection on the state of violence in America,” her 11 years at the Post came to an abrupt end.

“Being pushed out of the Washington Post for expressing myself — for not even expressing myself, for doing my job as a journalist — is really a deep, sort of cruel 180,” she told The Asso

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