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Join the Center for Black Church Studies as we speak with journalist Yamiche Alcindor. Alcindor is currently the White House correspondent for PBS NewsHour. She also serves as a political journalist on NBC and MSNBC. Alcindor will join us to talk about her vocational work as a journalist and about covering the Trump White House and the tumultuous election and post-election crisis.
Yamiche Alcindor is the White House correspondent for PBS NewsHour and a contributor for NBC News and MSNBC.
Before joining PBS NewsHour, she worked as a national political reporter for The New York Times where she covered presidential campaigns, Congress, and the impact of President Donald Trump’s policies on working class people and people of color.
Alcindor often tells stories about the intersection of race and politics as well as fatal police encounters. She’s also traveled extensively to closely cover the campaigns of Senator Bernie Sanders and Trump. Before joining The New York Times, she was a national breaking news reporter for USA Today and traveled across the country to cover stories including the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut; the death of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida; and the police-related protests in Ferguson, Missouri and Baltimore, Maryland.
She earned a master’s degree in broadcast news and documentary filmmaking from New York University and a bachelor’s in English, government, and African American studies from Georgetown University. A native of Miami, Florida, Alcindor is the daughter of Haitian immigrants who met while attending Boston College.
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