Jackie Summers
@jackfrombkln.bsky.social
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Griot. Brujo. America's first licensed Black distiller. James Beard Finalist. Creator Sorel Liqueur.
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Big liquor brands sold the story of authenticity without investing in the product integrity to back it up. Education raised the bar. The product limboed under it. Today on
@foodandwine.com
How 25 Years of Education Accidentally Created the Ultimate Brand Agnostics
www.foodandwine.com/flavor-is-th...
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What Comes After the Espresso Martini? A Flavor-First Drinking Era
Gen Z drinkers are reshaping the spirits world, favoring authentic flavor, sustainability, and story over high proof. Explore how modifiers like aperitifs and liqueurs — and upstarts such as Chinola —...
https://www.foodandwine.com/flavor-is-the-future-11761952
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I'm not anti-aging. I'm negentropic. The Physics of Joy vol. 58.
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The Physics of Joy, Vol. 58
Of course Black boy magic is real.
https://jackiesummers1.substack.com/p/the-physics-of-joy-vol-58
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You are future Ancestors. Act accordingly.
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The metaphor of taking a wrecking ball to the White House feels a bit on the nose.
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And this too: “This country needs and deserves to have the racial reckoning it clamors for. Can y’all do us a favor tho? Leave the Blacks out of it. This ain’t our fight. We’re already on the side of and justice for all."
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When The Race War Ain't Your War
Only structural anti-racism can undo structural racism.
https://jackiesummers1.substack.com/p/when-the-race-war-aint-your-war
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And this: "Freedom is not something you are given; it is something you claim. Equality is a prize torn from the blood-soaked hands of your oppressors."
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How To Beat White Supremacy And Save Democracy
Equality is a prize torn from the blood-soaked hands of your oppressors
https://jackiesummers1.substack.com/p/how-to-beat-white-supremacy-and-save
7 days ago
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Today feels like a good day to repost this: "When you’ve never had to bleed for freedom, you don’t know how to protect it. You expect laws to hold what only sacrifice ever could."
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The Price Of Freedom
If your freedom didn’t come with grief, it came from someone else’s.
https://jackiesummers1.substack.com/p/the-price-of-freedom
7 days ago
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This feels appropriate for today.
#NoKings
add a skeleton here at some point
7 days ago
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The best lie empire ever sold was convincing melanated people technology was real, while our traditions were superstition.
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The Alchemy of Blackness
Harry Potter and Hogwarts ain't got shit on Black and Indigenous peoples.
https://jackiesummers1.substack.com/p/the-alchemy-of-blackness
9 days ago
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Alexander Bernstein, the second child and only son of Leonard Bernstein, was a champion of education, a music enthusiast, and one helluva good man. He was the first investor in Jack From Brooklyn, and someone I came to trust as kin.
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In Honor of Alexander Bernstein
July 7, 1955-July 22, 2025
https://jackiesummers1.substack.com/p/in-honor-of-alexander-bernstein
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Her: My name's not easy to say. Me: Only for men who aren't good with their mouths.
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reposted by
Jackie Summers
Big liquor brands sold the story of authenticity without investing in the product integrity to back it up. Education raised the bar. The product limboed under it. Today on
@foodandwine.com
How 25 Years of Education Accidentally Created the Ultimate Brand Agnostics
www.foodandwine.com/flavor-is-th...
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What Comes After the Espresso Martini? A Flavor-First Drinking Era
Gen Z drinkers are reshaping the spirits world, favoring authentic flavor, sustainability, and story over high proof. Explore how modifiers like aperitifs and liqueurs — and upstarts such as Chinola —...
https://www.foodandwine.com/flavor-is-the-future-11761952
4 months ago
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reposted by
Jackie Summers
"To be Black in the U.S. is to live in a state of hyper-vigilance. In physics, things that can’t dissipate heat break down—or explode. Instead, we metabolize contradiction and transmute it into style."
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The Blackbody Problem
A Thermodynamic Field Equation of Emergent Coherence and Cultural Cool
https://jackiesummers1.substack.com/p/the-blackbody-problem
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reposted by
Jackie Summers
I keep hearing about how this country is 'more divided than ever' yet the division was never among Black people. We already know we're human and we stopped needing to prove that to anyone long ago.
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When The Race War Ain't Your War
Only structural anti-racism can undo structural racism.
https://jackiesummers1.substack.com/p/when-the-race-war-aint-your-war
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"To be Black in the U.S. is to live in a state of hyper-vigilance. In physics, things that can’t dissipate heat break down—or explode. Instead, we metabolize contradiction and transmute it into style."
jackiesummers1.substack.com/p/the-blackb...
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The Blackbody Problem
A Thermodynamic Field Equation of Emergent Coherence and Cultural Cool
https://jackiesummers1.substack.com/p/the-blackbody-problem
15 days ago
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Writing is seppuku. A good editor is your kaishakunin.
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If I’ve known you since my 40s technically you’re a childhood friend.
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If it’s going to matter in 150 years? Make it matter now.
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Every kiss leaves a scar đź’‹
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I keep hearing about how this country is 'more divided than ever' yet the division was never among Black people. We already know we're human and we stopped needing to prove that to anyone long ago.
jackiesummers1.substack.com/p/when-the-r...
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When The Race War Ain't Your War
Only structural anti-racism can undo structural racism.
https://jackiesummers1.substack.com/p/when-the-race-war-aint-your-war
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"Uncle Web worked in waste reclamation for NASA—he helped figure out how humans defecate and urinate in zero gravity, without soiling your instruments, or yourself. No one is making a movie about my great Uncle Web, it was literally a shitty job."
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Justice For Future Ancestors
Funding is what justice looks like in public.
https://jackiesummers1.substack.com/p/justice-for-future-ancestors
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9/11 is a GenZ native New Yorker. And they have opinions.
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9/11's First Drink(s)
Our collective day of grief is a GenZ native New Yorker and they have opinions.
https://jackiesummers1.substack.com/p/911s-first-drinks
about 1 month ago
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Who we support today transforms the future. Don’t wait until Black founders and innovators walk among the ancestors to honor their names and contributions. Fund them now. Protect them now. Platform them now.
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The Latimer Equation
If it will matter in 150 years, make it matter now.
https://jackiesummers1.substack.com/p/the-latimer-equation
about 2 months ago
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Hope is not a plan.
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The Perversity of Hope
Hope Is Not A Plan
https://substack.com/home/post/p-157254853
2 months ago
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The missing adjective is: hot. Otherwise I am staying in for the foreseeable future.
3 months ago
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In case any of y’all still play WWF đź«
3 months ago
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Said it six years ago. I would like to be wrong more often. Y’all predictable.
3 months ago
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From the archives, for those of y'all who not causing a fuss at Thanksgiving was a move.
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Jackie Summers
jensuths
3 months ago
went for some drams in lieu of making plans to go to tales (unless someone wants to pay cause my job won't lol) an old bottle of sorel
@jackfrombkln.bsky.social
but it tastes pretty good
#booze
#cocktails
#totc
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Enslaved Africans didn't gain freedom by sending stern letters to their enslavers.
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KJ Kearney on Substack
A bar.
https://substack.com/@kjbeenya/note/c-132146126?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=7p925
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Don’t dare call it freedom if it came without a receipt. If your freedom didn’t come with grief, it came from someone else’s. And if it feels free to you, it's because someone else already paid.
#IndependenceDay
#July4th
#Freedom
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The Price Of Freedom
If your freedom didn’t come with grief, it came from someone else’s.
https://jackiesummers1.substack.com/p/the-price-of-freedom
4 months ago
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Big liquor brands sold the story of authenticity without investing in the product integrity to back it up. Education raised the bar. The product limboed under it. Today on
@foodandwine.com
How 25 Years of Education Accidentally Created the Ultimate Brand Agnostics
www.foodandwine.com/flavor-is-th...
loading . . .
What Comes After the Espresso Martini? A Flavor-First Drinking Era
Gen Z drinkers are reshaping the spirits world, favoring authentic flavor, sustainability, and story over high proof. Explore how modifiers like aperitifs and liqueurs — and upstarts such as Chinola —...
https://www.foodandwine.com/flavor-is-the-future-11761952
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The “supreme” court Has Always Been Terrible: A Brief Retrospective 1857: Dred Scott v. Sanford Dred Scott held that African Americans, whether free men or slaves, could not be considered American citizens. Guess what: we are now, fuckers.
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Oh look unjust laws that's a first in this country đź«
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Ever wonderwhat you would tell a younger version of yourself? Before now no younger version of me was smart enough to listen. I’m finally at the age where I’m seeking my own advice. I finally trust myself; the field has coalesced enough density to hold not just math but myths.
#BarWorld100
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The US: what happens when you glimpse heaven, realize god is Black, and choose hell.
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Non-violent protest depends on knowing how to take a punch and not flinch.
#Protest
#BlackSky
#NoKings
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Viola Liuzzo. Google her. Understand the moment.
#BlackSky
#Protests
#NoKing
4 months ago
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Sometimes all you gotta do is stay in the game til there's .03 seconds on the clock.
#Pacers
5 months ago
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Is JD strangely quiet during all this or is just spending quality time with his couch.
5 months ago
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This ain't Drake v Drake. It's more like syphilis vs gonorrheađź¦
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Her: Looks at me, blinking. Me: Think of the story this will make one day.
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Hey Iowa
www.amazon.com/Dying-Whiten...
#Iowa
#DyingOfWhiteness
#WereAllGoingToDie
#BlackSky
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Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland [Metzl, Jonathan M.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
https://www.amazon.com/Dying-Whiteness-Politics-Resentment-Heartland/dp/1541644980
5 months ago
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So, where The Wild Things Are: they taking ex-pats or nah?
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Dear NYC transplants: Stay inside tonight. Knicks fans is out; y'all ain't safe.
#Knicks
5 months ago
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Why is there no cocktail called "I'd Like A Good Cry." I'd like two, actually.
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The first non-celebrity Black-owned potato chip company and the first licensed legal Black distiller combining ideation and resources across disciplines, markets, and geographic boundaries. Taste the generational excellence 👊🏾
#BlackOwned
#CEO
#Founder
#ForTheCulture
#EatSymphonyChips
#DrinkSorel
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5 months ago
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Her: You named your machete Kindness? What's your katana's name? Me: Boundaries.
5 months ago
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Built different.
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#MothersDay
#BuiltDifferent
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6 months ago
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My creativity? Dad's side. 100% of my emotional fortitude comes from my Mom. Built different, cause she made me that way.
#MothersDay
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Built Different
It’s been said one mom can take care of five kids, but five kids can't take care of one mom.
https://open.substack.com/pub/jackiesummers1/p/built-different?r=7p925&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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