HeyJaredPitch Rejects! -- Brea's Musings
Books, Politics, & More Imagination Hi, I'm Brea: a freelance writer with a B.A. in Political Science from Yale. My 1st book, ROOTED, explores Southern Black land ownership & reparations. My biography of Jazz Age nightclub owner, Bricktop, comes out '27
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The Reproductive Justice Case Against AI (opens the original)
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In 2016, I was a senior at Yale University when an eight-year-old named Mari Copeny sent a letter to Barack Obama. “I am one of the children that is effected by this water,” she began, “and I’ve been doing my best to march in protest and to speak out for all the kids that live here in Flint.” Within months, then-President Obama made a visit to Flint, Michigan to learn about the water crisis plaguing the community. There, he saw the yellow-brown water that poured out of
American Industry Runs on Black Bodies and Southern Land (opens the original)
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Richmond, Virginia was once the capital of the Confederacy. Brutal battles were fought and lost there in an attempt to protect slavery as an industry and way of life. One hundred and sixty-five years later, new territories are being drawn with this Virginia back at center stage. “Data Center Alley” the state is being called, on account of its more than 300 already operational data centers — the greatest concentration in the world. But this isn’t the Confederate Virginia that is saddled by that w
Books to Help You (Actually) Understand and Critique AI (opens the original)
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I’ve always been wary of AI, even before I understood it. Whenever the wealthiest people froth at the mouth, I take it as a warning sign. I didn’t need to know the mechanics of the technology to know nothing good comes from the powerful launching new technology. (The last digital boom eroded election security and platforms Trump.) As AI has traveled like kudzu consuming us from ChatGPT to AI startups in medicine, public safety, and education, the stakes have never been higher. Now we see the wri
To Love A Black Boy in the American South (opens the original)
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Asking me who my favorite author is is like asking me for my favorite Beyoncé song. There’s so much good out there that it really depends on the day, the way the wind is blowing, and what I need a book to say to me in any given moment. Sometimes it’s Octavia Butler’s peculiar knack for forcing me to live in the gray, like an escape room that I can only exit by wrestling with the liminality of it all. Often, I am sinking into Toni Morrison’s worlds, as a student does with a teacher or mentor. May
Pulitzer-Prize Pain (opens the original)
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White supremacists swarmed DC for the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Though extreme heat stopped the rallies and marches in their tracks, the mood in our nation’… Read more
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