Biden has been working to shore up support among Black voters.
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By Erica L. Green
Along with the rest of the White House team, I cover the daily decisions, comings and goings and newsworthy events involving the president, the vice president and other members of his cabinet.
While I am particularly interested in social policy and civil rights, I cover a range of topics — domestic policy implementation, foreign policy decisions, and other deliberations from inside the White House. I’m also drawn to stories that illustrate how the decisions made on Pennsylvania Avenue impact the American people, and shape the dynamics of American society. I look to broaden my coverage from beyond the Beltway to ensure that Americans are represented alongside the administration, which I believe is crucial to holding them accountable to the people they are elected to serve.
I joined the White House beat in the summer of 2023 after covering education for 13 years, more than six of them at The Times.
I started at The Times in 2017 to cover former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and federal education policy. Many of my stories focused on the political tumult that the nation’s K-12 schools and higher education institutions navigated during the Trump years. I also reported a myriad other features and investigations on school districts across the country, with a focus on civil rights and marginalized student populations, including the dismal educational outcomes for Native American students; the disproportionate disciplining of Black girls in school; and the secret and illegal suspensions of special education students. I also coauthored a Times investigation exposing the leaders of a Louisiana school who abused students and falsified their college applications to get them into the Ivy League. The story was the debut episode on The Times’ television show “The Weekly,” and is the subject of an upcoming book. In 2022, I was recognized as the best education beat reporter in the country by the Education Writers Association.
Before joining The Times, I covered education at my hometown paper, The Baltimore Sun, for seven years. While there, I was also part of the team named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the death of Freddie Gray in police custody, and the riots that resulted. I coauthored a book about the riots, “Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City,” that documented the events.
I graduated from Goucher College with a bachelor’s degree in communications, and I received my master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University.
Maintaining journalistic independence is important for every journalist at The Times, which has an extensive ethics policy that I follow. I want all of my work to be accurate and fair. I go above and beyond to ensure that multiple viewpoints are heard and represented in my coverage, but I do not allow that to devolve into false equivalencies or distract from the irrefutable truths readers should know. I value the trust I build with my sources, and fiercely protect them. I do not accept gifts, money or favors from anyone who might figure into my reporting. I do not make political donations. When I am working, I always identify myself as a reporter for The Times. And I do not forget that with the great privilege of having a front-row seat to history comes the huge responsibility to report without fear or favor.
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By Erica L. Green
President Biden commemorated Brown v. Board of Education during one of a series of events over the next several days to highlight his commitment to the Black community.
By Erica L. Green
The United States among a handful of holdouts on the vote, which was widely seen as a rebuke of the Americans and Israel.
By Erica L. Green
Defiant Israelis have vowed to do “whatever is necessary” in the Gaza Strip despite the American president’s threat to withhold weapons.
By Adam Rasgon, Julian E. Barnes and Michael Levenson
The president has grown increasingly wary of a major assault in the densely populated city in southern Gaza.
By Erica L. Green
The president’s remarks underscore a growing rift over the war in Gaza. He also acknowledged that U.S. bombs have been used to kill Palestinian civilians.
By Erica L. Green
The president warned that the United States would withhold American weapons if Israel launched a major invasion of Rafah in Gaza.
By Damien Cave, Erica L. Green, Peter Baker, Aaron Boxerman and Russell Goldman
The president’s visit to Wisconsin celebrated the investment by Microsoft in a center to be built on the site of a failed Foxconn project negotiated by his predecessor.
By Erica L. Green
An Israeli incursion into the southern Gaza city did not appear to be the long-anticipated, full-scale invasion of the city, home to about a million displaced Palestinians.
By Isabel Kershner, Cassandra Vinograd and Michael Levenson
President Biden’s speech at a Holocaust remembrance ceremony came during weeks of protests on U.S. college campuses against Israel’s war in Gaza.
By Erica L. Green and Michael D. Shear