Bless the Mic - Terrell Starr

900 West Daisy L Gatson Bates Drive,Little Rock AR 72202

20 April, 2023

Description

Terrell Jermaine Starr is an independent journalist and founder and host of the Black Diplomats podcast. His work focuses on U.S. domestic politics, racism in the U.S. and abroad, Eastern European affairs, and other foreign policy issues. Terrell’s sixteen years in journalism include stints as FUSION’s national political correspondent covering the 2016 presidential campaign. From 2017 to 2021 he served as The Root’s national political correspondent. Among the many notable interview subjects, he interviewed while covering the 2020 presidential race and the 2018 midterm elections include political powerhouses Kamala Harris, Stacey Abrams, Bernie, Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren. Before that, he was a senior reporter at Foxtrot Alpha, a site that focuses on military, technology, and policy. He is also a contributor to Foreign Policy magazine, the Washington Post, Outrider, and O, the Oprah Magazine. Terrell was in Kyiv when the Russian invasion of Ukraine began in 2022 and his live, on-the-ground video stories for television networks such CNN, MSNBC, and Al Jazeera introduced his unique style of reporting to millions of people around the globe. Terrell has a master’s degree in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies where his work focused on the EU’s integration of former communist states and a second master’s in journalism from the University of Illinois. He earned his bachelor’s degree in English at Philander Smith College, a historically Black college in Little Rock, Arkansas. While based in Brooklyn, New York, Terrell spends much of his time in Ukraine and regularly travels to Central Asia and Western Europe for reporting assignments.