Karen Attiah, The Washington Post’s only Black female opinion writer, said she was terminated after more than a decade at the paper for posts she wrote on social media addressing violence and the dangers of white extremism.

“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 Associated Press.

Her removal comes at a time when Black journalists already stand on fragile ground in an industry that continues to exclude them. According to the Pew Research Center’s most recent survey of American newsrooms , only 6% of reporting journalists in 2022 were Black, though Black people make up 12% of the population.

White journalists accounted for 76% of reporters, even t

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