I am a writer. LA → CHI → NO
co-author of THE PROBLEM WITH PLASTIC: http://shorturl.at/Otagc
currently writing NOTES ON FINDING HOME
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adam mahoney (he/him)
The community of Royal, Florida, is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, but not without restrictions. https://bit.ly/4xjPDen
The battle over Black political representation in the South continues to unfold, with a federal court rejecting a new Alabama House map.
This ruling is the latest development since the U.S. Supreme Court’s April decision eroding a key provision of the Voting Rights Act. https://bit.ly/4dsvg5H
NEW: For the Floyds, climate change isn't a flooded street. It is the investors’ photographers and developers at their door, and the N-word spray-painted across the mural facing their home after they refuse to sell.
on Black Miami and climate gentrification
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The community of Royal, Florida, is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, but not without restrictions.
Dominique Dawes became an Olympic champion in a gymnastics culture that often demanded pain and isolation. Thirty years later, she's trying to build something different: a culture rooted in joy, community, and belonging.
My latest. capitalbnews.org/dominique-da...
Now that Atlanta's Cop City is built, it's rare to see in-depth reporting on the impact it's actually having. Nice work by @adamlmahoney.bsky.social + Madeline Thigpen
capitalbnews.org/atlanta-cop-...
adam mahoney (he/him)
Why did LA Mayor Karen Bass empty out the city’s climate emergency office with the Palisades Fire so fresh in everyone’s memory? When ALL cities urgently need to adapt to the effects of rising heat on their residents?
From the always great @sammyroth.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/climatec...
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Some 10,000 homes were flipped in the five boroughs from 2021 to 2025, with the highest rates of activity in disproportionately Black sections of the city: gothamist.visitlink.me/MpJZfu
NEW: Louisiana has the nation's highest share of residents living in poverty & the nation's highest incarceration rate
Now the state wants to subject unhoused people to fines, jail time, or unpaid labor if they are found sleeping outdoors.
capitalbnews.org/louisiana-ho...
ONE YEAR AGO, the most destructive tornado in 15 years tore through St. Louis’ Black neighborhoods
Today, most blocks still look the same.
This is what disaster recovery looks like under Trump when it hits poor Black communities:
capitalbnews.org/st-louis-tor...
For the first time since the U.S. government began collecting the data, young Black men are dying by suicide at a higher rate than young white men.
capitalbnews.org/young-black-...
Through her academies, she hopes to build a happier, more inclusive vision of gymnastics — one rooted in fun and community as much as competition.
For the first time, the rate is surpassing that of their white peers. It's a generational warning that public health officials have yet to match with resources.
