Courtland Milloy

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Courtland Milloy is an American columnist and former reporter for The Washington Post. He joined the Post in 1975 after working at the Miami Herald.{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/courtland-milloy/|title=Courtland Milloy|last=|first=|date=|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=March 4, 2019}} Milloy covers the Washington D.C. area's African-American community and highlighting issues in less affluent areas of Washington, D.C.{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/article/13039870/whats-tweeting-courtland-milloy|title=What's Tweeting Courtland Milloy?|last=Smith|first=Rend|date=November 26, 2010|work=Washington City Paper|access-date=March 4, 2019}} He is a critic of gentrification and urban cyclists. Milloy hosted the BET show For Black Men Only in 1992. He is one of the journalists interviewed in the documentary film The Newspaperman.

A former critic of Twitter, he later began tweeting.{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/city-desk/blog/13063872/courtland-milloy-myopic-little-twit|title=Courtland Milloy, Myopic Little Twit|last=Smith|first=Rend|date=August 2, 2011|work=Washington City Paper|access-date=March 4, 2019}} Milloy has been critical of cyclists and has drawn their protests with his columns.{{Cite web|url=https://ggwash.org/tag/courtland-milloy|title=Posts tagged Courtland Milloy|last=|first=|date=|website=Greater Greater Washington|access-date=March 4, 2019}}{{Cite news|url=https://dcist.com/story/14/07/10/photos-cyclists-protest-outside-was/|title=Cyclists Protest Courtland Milloy's Column Outside WaPo Headquarters|last=Cohen|first=Matt|date=July 10, 2014|work=DCist|access-date=March 4, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190922194654/https://dcist.com/story/14/07/10/photos-cyclists-protest-outside-was/|archive-date=September 22, 2019|url-status=live}}

He was a critic of the Washington Redskins team name{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/dec/30/editorial-another-nfl-season-ends-in-disappointmen/|title=Redskins' woes beyond the name|newspaper=The Washington Times}} and has written on issues including panhandling, recovery from drug addiction, reparations, and traffic fines. In the aftermath of the September 11th attacks, Milloy wrote a column addressed as a letter to his son, trying to explain why the attacks had occurred.{{Cite news |last=Milloy |first=Courtland |date=19 September 2001 |title=To Understand Terrorism, Children Must Learn of the Suffering It Thrives On |url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52675-2001Sep18.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010919223030/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52675-2001Sep18.html |archive-date=19 September 2001 |access-date=6 May 2025 |work=The Washington Post |pages=B01}}

On Dec. 19, 2023, Milloy published his farewell column.{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/12/19/milloy-goodbye-strivers-survivors-of-dc/|title=As I step away, I remember the strivers and survivors of our city|newspaper=The Washington Post}}