She missed the turning. 😳

Venezuela just can't catch a break. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...

‘Bold, truth-telling’: learning from the rich histories of pan-African journalism

Tracy Chapman - Give Me One Reason. 1988. En el programa Saturday Night Live.

Never did I think I would see a cure for sickle cell in my lifetime. A friend of mine in fifth grade died from this disease. My parents kept me home from the funeral because they thought I was too young to handle it. Modern science is a miracle. www.wafb.com/2026/06/23/n...

200,000+ Black New Yorkers have been forced out of NYC over the last 20 years because of costs. After rent, child care is the largest cost families face. So we’re making universal child care a reality. Families have until this Friday, June 26, to apply for a 2-K seat this fall at myschools.nyc.

Late Windrush victim’s compensation to fund prize for British Caribbean playwrights

B A R R Y R E A D S theliterarylifestyle.com/obamas-readi...

Ain't that something…

Michelle Obama: You were doing the people's work, rescuing our economy, expanding health care, ending a war, ordering the bin laden raid, saving an auto industry, winning a peace prize.

Michelle Obama: The lies about your birthright, your faith, your patriotism, the outrage when you stated the biological fact that if you'd had a son that he too would be black, yet you were unflappable at every turn, always focused.

Lionel Messi is now the joint top FIFA World Cup goalscorer 🔝📊, but Kylian is coming up the rear. 😉

The banks of the River Thames at morning tide seen from Battersea Bridge.

"Mirror journalist asks why violence committed by white men never seems to matter" www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Happy Obama Appreciation Day! The President, Husband, Father and true Patriot... #ObamaAppreciationDay

Glasgow now, there is no place in Scotland for racism or fascism.

Kemi’s job is to distance herself from racial minorities for fear of spooking the party into labelling her ‘Black’ - the same logic that makes every crime by a person of colour a verdict on the whole community and demands Black people permitted into white spaces prove they’re the exception.

In Japan, a gorilla 🦍 named Kiyomasa got into trouble with his mate. She kicked him out of their enclosure at the zoo, and he was later spotted sitting alone, seemingly thinking now what

Curse of the Mummy! 👀 www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

And to think the industry told me a magical HBCU story with a Black teen boy lead wasn’t “marketable”. Hmmph. 🫣 Want a signed copy? malikbooks.com/shop-1/ols/p... #booksky

Such sad news from a real journalist. @alzheimerssoc.bsky.social

The people who rallied against Poles during Brexit now use Henry Nowak’s murder as a rallying cry against the “mass invasion of migrants” - Nowak, British-born son of Polish immigrants, killed by Digwa, British-born Sikh. One is suddenly one of us. The other is proof of invasion. Make it make sense.

It appears from the footage that the cops did not realise the young man had been stabbed. This was an unfortunate misjudgment. It is unclear whether their different actions would have changed the outcome—condolences to the victim’s family and loved ones. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Lost in the back streets of Rotterdam, Dijkzigt, trying to find my way back to the DoubleTree Hilton Rotterdam Centre at Leuvehaven, where my room has the best showerhead I’ve ever experienced anywhere in my years of travel. But is Dijkzigt to Leuvehaven always this quiet?

One of the last of the pantheon of true giants has left us. A great originator. You do not learn jazz without learning Sonny Rollins. We’re lucky that we had him for so long, but the loss feels tremendous.

Black First, Leftist Second: What Vic Mensa Reminded Me About the Cost of the False Choice. Discussion & Analysis w/ @theconsciouslee.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JUJ...

Call for Papers: Black Histories Dialogues Journal special issue on Historical Perspectives of Black/African Masculinities. Seeking cross-disciplinary work on culture, history, politics, diaspora, embodiment, memory, and more. Abstracts (max 250 words) due 30 June 2026. #MasculinityStudies

Dialogue Books has acquired Derek A Bardowell’s “comprehensive guide to the people, places and politics that shaped dancehall,” Fire Inna Dancehall. 👇

Childhood best friends Jo Diop and Kush Burman, from Liverpool, have crossed the finish line first to become the series six winners of Race Across The World. 👏🏾 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

2Funky Arts seeks Black, African, and Caribbean artists for a performance showcase that will tour the Midlands during Black History Month. Artists selected will receive a £500 fee for developing & rehearsing their artistic piece, and £200 per performance. www.artsjobs.org.uk/events/79614

Missing HIV appointments happens. Getting back doesn’t have to be hard. THT Direct can help you take that first step back to a clinic. tht.org.uk/hiv/its-wort...

📽️ Hired in France as a Nanny, Trapped as a Slave | Black Girl (1966) #AfricanCinema #BlackSky #Film youtu.be/yVtnY2GGUhw

Man never giving up on his paralyzed dog pays off Original post

Currently watching: “Sankofa” (1993) youtu.be/TCSIiOFNyi4

A moment that changed me: My diagnosis seemed like a death sentence – how have I survived for another 40 years?

🎥 Orfeu Negro (1959) | The Palme d'Or Film Brazil Never Forgave youtu.be/d7pGInI56-E

Nice one, Kwame!

YouTube has launched a new partnership with the BBC and the National Film and Television School to create a skills and training program for TV producers, digital creators and journalists across the UK blog.youtube/news-and-eve...

AI feels like the Trojan horse of the twenty-first century. Invited in by big tech, trusted, and normalised by the people. Only once it’s inside do we realise what it carries: systems that quietly replace us, restructure work, and leave millions unemployed, wondering where they now fit.

This will be like the last pandemic, but worse: Most tasks that involve “sitting down at a computer” will be fully automated by AI within the next year or 18 months, he said, naming accounting, legal, marketing, and even project management as vulnerable. fortune.com/article/why-...

The work of Vivian Maier (1920-2009), prolific US street photographer whose work was unknown in her lifetime #WomensArt

"You can't put a Black actor in this movie! That's desecrating the story of that long dead author!" Brought to you by the same impressively stupid fuckers who think Jesus is white.

I love the iridescent #Hummingbird or the #DoctorBird as we used to call it when me was a boy.

Jason Collins, the NBA's first openly gay player who went on to become a pioneer for inclusion and an ambassador for the league, has died after an eight-month battle with an aggressive form of a brain tumor, his family announced Tuesday. n.pr/4dDbaqu

Couldn’t agree more. Spent years advertising Mitsubishi Motors and always thought modern car brands look basically the same. People couldn’t understand why I owned a Land Rover Defender II, which looked practically the same as it did when I was a child. #Cars #CarDesign #Automotive #OldCars