Journalist. Author:The Woman's Hour:The Great Fight to Win the Vote (Viking/Penguin). Medill grad. MacDowell Fellow. Worried.
Baltimore, MD
Joined October 2017
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Elaine Weiss retweeted
North Carolina A&T students marched an hour each way to vote on the first day of early voting after their campus polling site was removed by the Guilford County Elections Board. Proud 👏🏽
Rest in power Dolly Parton. Her music, and her Imagination Library literacy program will be her legacy. Tomorrow is Women's Equality Day, marking the ratification of the 19th Amendment in her beloved Tennessee. Here's her song tribute to that moment: youtu.be/GPDY8MlT_T4?si=Mu6p…
Thrilled to learn that Spell Freedom is a finalist for the Benjamin Hooks Institute National Book Award. Honored to be included among these distinguished books and authors. @OneSignalPub @AtriaBooks @WMEBooks @NAACP_LDF #civilrights #votingrights #democracy
Elaine Weiss retweeted
Congratulations to Bess Wohl & the cast & crew of Liberation, which just won the 2026 #TonyAward for Best Play! 🎉🎭✊ This marks the first time in nearly 40 years an American woman has won the prestigious award, & makes Wohl just the 4th woman in history to win the award. #Tonys
Thank you @RyanHoliday for recommending #TheWomansHour as one of your BEST BIG BOOKS to read this summer on @MSNOWNews @Morning_Joe Thrilled to be included in a very fine list. @VikingBooks @WMEBooks #summerbooks #reading #voting
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Important essay by @dsallentess on the need for civics education to strengthen our democracy. Citizenship Schools powered the civil rights movement -could spark a new awakening today. #SpellFreedombook nytimes.com/2026/05/17/opini…
The struggle continues. It is our fight now. Stand up for voting rights. Our lose our democracy. #spellfreedom
The Fight for Voting Rights Returns to Selma #https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/us/selma-march-voting-rights-act-redistricting.html
Why Is There a Voting Rights Act? A Timeline nytimes.com/2026/04/29/us/vo…?
On this dark day in democracy--Good lesson on the origins and importance of VRA
Prominent Civil Rights Group Says It Is Under Federal Investigation nytimes.com/2026/04/21/us/po…
I write about this sort of government harassment of civil rights groups in "Spell Freedom".Proud that I'll be speaking at SPLC next week in Montgomery. @SPLC @NAACP_LDF @WMEBooks
Spanberger's historic swearing-in features local flair axios.com/local/richmond/202…
Congrats to Gov. Abigail Spanberger, first woman governor in Virginia's 400 yr history. Wearing a Suffrage White coat and thanking the women who fought for the vote.
Thrilling news: @WMEBooks
And just days after the VRA was signed, volunteer civil servants were deployed as election examiners to allow Black citizens to register to vote without Jim Crow literacy tests or harassment. @OneSignalPub #SpellFreedom @NAACP_LDF @SNCCLegacy
Sixty years ago today President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law, proclaiming: "Today is a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory that has ever been won on any battlefield." Today the battle for voting rights continues. #OTD #VotingRights #civilrights
My latest for The Contrarian. A lesson for spineless Congressional Republicans: Standing up in Congress open.substack.com/pub/contra…
@RepRaskin @CoryBooker @RepJeffries @Sen_Alsobrooks #votingrights
In March 1954, just before Supreme Cts Brown decision came down. southern segregationists used McCarthyite tactics to label civil rights advocates "Communist" and "subversive" Here is Myles Horton of Highlander Folk School being dragged out of a Senate hearing. #Padilla
On this 71st anniversary of the Supreme Court's Brown decision, explore what came next in this conversation about #SpellFreedom with Rashawn Davis on CSpan 2 Am. History TV at 4:25 pm EDT c-span.org/ahtv/
@NAACP_LDF @BlackVotersMtr @simonschuster
Elaine Weiss retweeted
#OnThisDay May 17, 1954: The U.S. Supreme Court decided Brown v. Board of Education, declaring racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
Today, the fight continues for inclusive, quality education for EVERY child.
#BrownVBoard #BlackGirlsVote
One Signal authors love their indie bookstores! Here in Baltimore, attended a support rally for our @UrbanReads , a Black owned store subjected to threats and harassment. Then enjoyed being a guest bookseller at my home @TheIvyBookshop. Support your indie!
Elaine Weiss retweeted
Happy Independent Bookstore Day! Today and every day, One Signal and our authors are proud to celebrate indie bookstores and the incredible work they do. ❤️📚✍️
Just finished recording an episode with Rick Wilson for his Enemies List show--great conversation.
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