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Trymaine Lee

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Trymaine Lee

@trymainelee

Pulitzer Prize and Emmy Award Winner. Author: A Thousand Ways to Die 9/9/25

New York, NY

Joined December 2009

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Trymaine Lee
@trymainelee
Mar 3, 2025
Drumroll, please! 🥁 I’m beyond proud to reveal the cover of my forthcoming book, A Thousand Ways to Die: The True Cost of Violence on Black Life in America. Coming September 9th 🔥 Pre-orders are LIVE NOW! Go to trymainelee.com to learn more and get your copy.
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Trymaine Lee
@trymainelee
Feb 11, 2018
A public service announcement:
Trymaine Lee
@trymainelee
Aug 29, 2020
Let’s not take a single breathe for granted. Not a single blessing. R.I.P.
Chadwick Boseman
@chadwickboseman
Aug 29, 2020
Trymaine Lee
@trymainelee
Aug 12, 2016
"This medal is not just for me...its for all the people who believe they can't do it." Simone Manuel makes history.
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Trymaine Lee
@trymainelee
Jun 14, 2020
This brother @KadirNelson does it like no other. So strong.
Trymaine Lee
@trymainelee
May 25, 2023
I bet you had no idea that the modern emergency medical system and the first EMT’s were pioneering Black men from Pittsburgh who saved lives in more ways than one. This is the story of Freedom House. link.chtbl.com/obvkRMCh?sid=t…
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Trymaine Lee
@trymainelee
Jun 25, 2020
Tamir Rice would’ve been 18 today. Tamir Rice should’ve been 18 today. Remember 18? How young 18 was? How hopeful 18 was? How on the cusp of everything 18 was? How alive 18 was?
Trymaine Lee
@trymainelee
Apr 20, 2021
Derek Chauvin - Guilty on all counts. America can call Derek Chauvin what many have long believed. Murderer.
Trymaine Lee
@trymainelee
Jan 14, 2021
To understand how we got here, we have to understand where we’ve been. This week, we’re telling the story of the only successful coup in U.S. history. And yes... they were white supremacists. Listen here! link.chtbl.com/into_america
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Trymaine Lee
@trymainelee
Sep 30, 2020
“Stand down and stand by.” For many this presidential debate was an embarrassment. But be clear, there are people cheering right now, who feel affirmed. Those who relish in the bluster and bullying and lying and the refusal to denounce racists.
Trymaine Lee
@trymainelee
Feb 7, 2021
Black history is American history and needs to be treated as such. Not teaching it fully leaves huge gaps in the American story.
The Hill
@thehill
Feb 6, 2021
Utah school allowing parents to opt students out of Black History Month curriculum hill.cm/XjTO4Il
Trymaine Lee
@trymainelee
May 27, 2021
100 years ago a white mob destroyed one of the wealthiest Black communities in America, killing hundreds. It’s a tragedy that’s been buried for a century, but still felt. I went looking for the truth. Watch our doc, Blood On Black Wall Street on MSNBC this Sunday at 10pm ET
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Trymaine Lee
@trymainelee
Jun 15, 2017
Bravery/Irony. Agents David Bailey & Crystal Griner wounded protecting Rep. Scalise who once called himself "David Duke w/out the baggage."
Trymaine Lee
@trymainelee
Oct 22, 2019
This yr marks the 100th anniv. of the Red Summer of 1919, when hundreds of African Americans were lynched and murdered across the country. Thousands more would follow. Lynching was used to beat Black people as far back into slavery as possible. The president is not being lynched.