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Donovan Ramsey

Los Angeles
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Covers:  personal finance, science, arts, polititcs, entertainment, culture, race, lifestlye, policy, education, long-form, breaking news
Doesn't Cover: sports
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Donovan X. Ramsey is a multimedia journalist who writes about all things social, political, cultural, financial and whimsical. His work has been featured in outlets including Ebony, JET, Diverse, MONEY, theGrio.com and Black Enterprise, among others. The Columbus, Ohio native earned his M.S. in magazine journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and B.A. in psychology from Morehouse College. He currently resides in New York City.

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Sharpton-led National Action Network rallies for missing autistic boy

Sharpton-led National Action Network rallies for missing autistic boy

HARLEM, NY - Rev. Al Sharpton joined the search for a missing autistic boy Saturday. He pledged his National …

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Bill de Blasio: New Joe Lhota ad is 'disgusting, inappropriate and divisive'

Bill de Blasio: New Joe Lhota ad is 'disgusting, inappropriate and divisive'

With just over two weeks before Election Day, and leading by more than 40 percent in the polls, you might thi…

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Captive Audience

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By Donovan Ramsey
| Substack
Take It From the Top — Derrick Adams, 2015. A famous person is online at three in the morning, posting with the frightening productivity of someone whose body has recently declared sleep optional. They have uploaded nineteen videos in forty-five minutes. Their pupils are negotiating separate treaties. Every sentence begins in one ZIP code and ends in another. The first people to arrive make jokes.
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Columbia, where the South drops the act

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By Donovan Ramsey
| The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Verified
You don’t go to Columbia for charm or spectacle. You go for the friction: bronze stars on the State House, ribs that defy Instagram and a raw calm carved from stubborn ground. If Charleston is the South dressed up for company, Columbia is what you catch when the South is in sweatpants at home. It’s not a city that tries to seduce you with facades or curated charm. It doesn’t need to. Columbia is a liminal space: between the rural and the urban, between a bloody past and a restless present.
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Birmingham is for lovers

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By Donovan Ramsey
| The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Verified
People come to Birmingham carrying a heavy script. They arrive expecting the gravity of the place to crush them. They expect the brick, the blood, the sermons and the steel. They treat the city like a crime scene or a classroom, a place you visit to pay respects to the struggle, to touch the scars of 1963. They are not wrong. That spirit is there. But often, the visitors miss the point of venerating it. They forget what the struggle was actually for.
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