#AuctionCatalogue | Contemporary Art is at auction June 4, 2026. Browse the complete catalogue and register to bid: www.swanngalleries.com/auction-cata...

Jerome H. Powell steps down Friday as chair of the Federal Reserve after running the world’s most powerful central bank through a pandemic, the worst inflation in 40 years, and an unprecedented assault on the Fed’s independence.

Amy Sherald: American Sublime has arrived at the High Museum of Art. As the last stop on the national tour, this powerful exhibition brings the work of a Georgia-born artist home, celebrating Black identity, beauty, visibility and the stories behind each portrait.

After Amy Sherald canceled her exhibit American Sublime at the Smithsonian last year over censorship attacks by the Trump administration, the exhibit is set to premiere at the High Museum of Art on Friday. https://atlanta.capitalbnews.org/amy-sherald-american-sublime-atlanta-exhibit/

‘Speak their names’: Jackson State community honors civil rights organizer slain in 1967 protest A new historical marker will honor civil rights organizer Benjamin Brown, who was shot when law enforcement officers fired into a crowd of protestors at Jackson State in 1967.

9pm: yawning 2:12am: time to become a scholar on uncontacted tribes

She was fighting for her life against that pillow 🤣

Honestly the camera work is incredible

I can’t believe I watched this

Fuck cancer

Again the plan....as always... silence Black voices & representation...and don't get it twisted the Counterproductives & Uncommitted are absolutely ok with this. It's why they "Left It Blank"....

The perception that Black representatives only care about the needs of Black constituents comes from decades of White representatives only caring about the needs of White constituents.

Jason Collins, the NBA's first openly gay player who has served as a global ambassador for the sport, has died from brain cancer, his family said. He was 47 www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...

Make a band out of two others? Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five Heartbeats

Today in Documentary 'Natchez,' which we named one of the best of 2025, airs on PBS via 'Independent Lens' 'Tucci in Italy' Season 2 premieres on National Geographic '96 Pounds of Dynamite' releases on VOD Find more to watch this week: www.nonfics.com/p/week-in-do...

How the Battle Over American History Is Playing Out in One Southern City • 'Natchez' looks at antebellum tourism in Mississippi.

"Every spring since 1932, tourists have flocked to the city of Natchez, Mississippi, to visit stately antebellum homes and gardens, where women in hoop skirts and men in Confederate regalia recreate a romanticized version of the Old South." #CivilWarMemory www.contrariannews.org/p/how-the-ba...

Legendary Bluesman Bobby Rush announces documentary feature film titled: "King Of The Chitlin’ Circuit" 🎶🎬🎶 Spanning Rush’s seven-decades career & filmed over the last 2 years. The doc will air on Mississippi Public Broadcasting in August. #music #documentary #blues deadline.com/2026/03/bobb...

TONIGHT at 10 on INDEPENDENT LENS: NATCHEZ The town of Natchez, Mississippi confronts the tension between preservation and truth as it wrestles with race, memory and identity.

Natalie Cole came out swinging with her debut album. It won her 2 Grammys, including Best New Artist. People stopped putting "Nat King Cole's Daughter" in front her name. 🗣This will be... an everlasting love

I remember when people said this in 2006 and look where we are

Catch a crop of ROADSHOW discoveries at scenic Grant’s Farm in St. Louis, Missouri. "Grant's Farm, Hour 3" premieres TONIGHT at 8/7c on @pbs.org and the PBS app.

The worst part is not that he keeps doing this only to women & minorities. The worst part is that the rest of the press corps doesn’t impose any consequences on him for doing so. Over & over again.

Honored to speak with Robert Costa for @cbssundaymorning.bsky.social about the history - and how history will judge - the SCOTUS gutting of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Lois Mailou Jones, The Musician, c. 1940

A first-rate, second rate man

Legendary hip hop producer 9th Wonder receives his degree from North Carolina Central University, 26 years after leaving to HBCU to pursue music

Contractions with 3 words: -she'd've -wouldn't've Contractions with more than 3 words: -y'all'll've -they'dn't've

Mississippi's Edward Blackmon Jr. was part of a generation of Black Americans across the South who fought to dismantle barriers to voting and achieve political representation. He is now resigned to the fact that the fight of his youth is not yet over.

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Note to self: Rest is part of productivity. Rest is part of productivity. Rest is part of productivity. Rest is part of productivity. Rest is part of productivity. Rest is part of productivity. Rest is part of productivity. Rest is part of productivity. Rest is part of productivity.

I'll just note that critical race theory predicts quite a lot about the current racial retrenchment and for being *correct* it was pilloried in the press and by some academics.

stg

Racists are the most miserable & heaviest people in the world. By heavy, I mean carrying all that hatred in them. Their minds, hearts, bodies & souls are consumed by hatred. It's their nourishment.

Nia Long serving glam dujour at the #metgala 🥰

The lead plaintiff in Callais v. Louisiana said on social media that he was at January 6:

Wisdom Kaye attends the 2026 #MetGala

@authormsbev.bsky.social just popped over to see if Ms Bev saw this Met Gala gown “Tessa Thompson in an indigo gown and indigo-stained fingers. A clear homage to Gullah-Geechee indigo slave workers, a powerful symbol representing forced labor and skin marked history.”

I've never seen this, until today. Had to share with fellow George Michael fans on the skyline.... George performing "Back To Life" with Lynn Mabry.... I miss him so much... it's been almost 10 years 🥹

Remembering James Brown on his birthday (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) 💙🕊 B.B. King, James Brown & Bobby “Blue” Bland… jammin’ 🔥 #Legends 🕊️🕊️🕊️

Unless it’s Kelly Rowland and her back muscles doing the hitting 😌

Created the hardest dance methodology EVER. What a queen 💙

Since 2020, the now 120-year-old Greenwood Leflore Hospital has struggled, falling steadily deeper into debt after the COVID-19 pandemic drained most of its resources. Some of its wings, such as its labor and delivery unit, are now permanently closed.

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