I can never looked at roosters the same after reading Prof. Zakiyyah Iman Jackson's "Becoming Human". She has a chapter that discusses Mister, the rooster in Beloved, in relation to Paul D.

I literally want to cry at the thought of all the brilliant human teachers they could have hired with that money. Instead they set it on fire.

People that believed there was an underground pedophile ring in the basement of a pizza parlor when the Epstein files drop

Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept." Astonishing thing for a judge to do.

As more academic names keep coming up in the Epstein files, I keep thinking about this NYT interview with the Bard president from a few years ago, and wondering how many people were rationalizing in similar ways. www.nytimes.com/2023/05/05/u...

Woman asked the bartender for ice. Bartender: “don’t say that word.” 😉😂

Sanford & Son is my comfort show — the one I watch when I just want to veg and chill. Lamont Goes African is my favorite episode. Rest in peace Demond Wilson.

“There’s no single answer that will solve all our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers—at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.” ― Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay

Composition in Gray (Rag-time) by Theo van Doesburg, 1919 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137437

Reminded of the time that a BBC World Service presenter asked their guest how long there had been a Latino presence in Los Angeles and I yelled at my car stereo, “The name of the city is **LOS ANGELES**!”

RIP Demond Wilson 💔 www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/d...

"Ser negro es la sensación de ser muy visible a la vez que hiperinvisible porque la gente no nos ve como una persona con deseos, ve nuestra raza, la negritud. El racismo no son solo los insultos, sino también las jerarquías de poder fundadas mediante mentiras"

Reshona Landfair is incredulous how society allowed a child to become a punchline: “If I were a Caucasian girl who got peed on, there would have been a different outcome...I was a mockery. I was never a victim, so I never saw myself as a victim." 🔗 www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

When I resigned as co-chair of the National Association of Black Journalists convention after their decision to platform Trump, I took a lot of heat for it. I was told “Black journalists are going to expose his racism and save America” Today, the Trump regime is arresting Black journalists.

They said "free speech" and "academic freedom" but never believed in either and now in texas you need a permission slip to mention race in class and they're fine with it. Might not have worked if people with large platforms weren't furious about marginal increases of black people in their offices

Union workers solved the trolley problem, you're welcome

For 4Columns, I wrote about the Wilfredo Lam show at MoMA. He was the first Cuban artist to enter the collection, but his masterpiece, The Jungle, hung near the coatcheck for years. It’s a great show about an artist who saw his practice as an act of decolonization. 4columns.org/d-souza-arun...

You know, yes, this is media diet and Netflix and whatever. But part of college — part of study in general — is understanding that not everything is *entertaining* all the time. And part of that is deciding you care about learning things! (1/2)

PETAPIXEL: Photography’s Truth Is Under Attack and Giving Up Is Not an Option petapixel.com/2026/01/29/p... @petapixel.bsky.social #journalism #photography #photojournalism

A federal judge warned Justice Department lawyers that their statements on a slavery exhibit display in Philadelphia were "horrifying." "You can’t erase history once you’ve learned it. It doesn’t work that way"

Michael "5000" Watts, the producer who founded Swishahouse and helped propel Houston’s "chopped and screwed" sound to international heights, has died at 52

They all owe Little Richard. He was a genius.

And Little Richard was influenced by Esquerita, born Eskew Reeder, Jr.. 🎶🎼 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esquerita

This seems bad for a peaceful global order!

Korematsu v. US was not overturned until 2018. In a counter-move *upholding* Trump's travel ban, Justice Roberts declared: "Korematsu was gravely wrong the day it was decided, has been overruled in the court of history, and to be clear has no place in law under the Constitution." 4/

"The past is never dead. It's not even past." On the 107th anniversary of Fred Korematsu's birth, Faulkner's words seem more apt than ever. Visit korematsuinstitute.org for more, or catch George Takei’s brilliant play “Allegiance.” 5/5 [The things they carried. Suitcases at @jamuseum.bsky.social]

Catherine O’Hara wardrobe polaroids from Second City, 1983. RIP an absolute legend & icon💔

“Mi hijo Liam me decía: 'Mami, ábreme la puerta', estaba aterrorizada ... y no lo hice por miedo a que mí también me arrestaran y dejara solo a mi otro hijo.” Can you imagine this pain? Your 5 year old begging you to let them in and being so afraid to lose your other child that you could not.

Habla la madre de Liam Conejo Ramos, el niño de 5 años detenido por ICE www.telemundo.com/noticias/not...

#WomenPhotographers Doreen Spooner was the first woman to work as a staff photographer on a Fleet Street newspaper during a forty-year career, mostly on the Daily Mirror. #Trailblazers #WomenYouDeserveToKnow #AdmirableWomen #photographers #photojournalism

Ask me how I know. It’s funny how when you ask my cohort about foundational films some of us say Boyz N the Hood and Do the Right Thing & others say RealityBites & Wall Street. Two completely separate realities except for our shared love of Madonna Prince MJ PE ATCQ & the Beasties.

The GenX split hinges on race & urbanism. If you were born in 1974 you lived through the Central Park 5 the Crack & AIDS epidemics, Rodney King, OJ & on & on before you were 25. If you were watching from some cul de sac none of that seemed real. But in the cities…

"It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it." - Fred Korematsu Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/

My Conversation with Ava DuVernay about Don Lemon & Georgia Fort & How we Respond to Our Current Times

"May it languish in that never-ending, DIY Black movie pit known as Tubi,” condemns @ @unclecrizzle.bsky.social about MOSES THE BLACK.

4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

So what I'm hearing is that, in the last five days, two Black Members of Congress have been assaulted in apparent support of the regime's deportation diktat (Rep Frost, punched at Sundance & told he'd be deported; Rep Omar at an ICE townhall) & the regime has arrested four Black journalists. Huh.

Pedro Pascal has paid tribute to Catherine O’Hara after her tragic passing “Oh, genius to be near you. Eternally grateful. There is less light in my world, this lucky world that had you, will keep you, always. Always ❤️ The one and ONLY Catherine O’Hara”

"Texas A&M offered a bachelor of arts degree, a bachelor of science degree, an undergraduate minor and a graduate certificate in women’s and gender studies. The program has 25 students seeking a major and 31 seeking a minor." www.texastribune.org/2026/01/30/t...

Please take 1 minute and 44 seconds to watch the effervescent genius of Catherine O'Hara and Fred Willard in their auditilon scene in Waiting For Guffman (also notice how she mouths all his lines, a tiny touch of her boundless brilliance)

Oh, COME ON!!!!!!

Every time y'all Millennials come for Gen X, I'll mutter "my Lord of the Flies ass generation" forever. Collectively, we were the product of Silent and Boomer adults "finding themselves." I was lucky because I grew up next door to my grandparents, and my parents were hyper responsible eldest kids.

Look at our movies. Read our books. Those only capture SOME of what it was like. It was hell growing up with some of those kids. HELL. Some were mean AF for no reason, and a few were even cruel. Adults just told us to "fight back." There was no Internet to vent on! You just had to deal with it.

Missed all the Gen X discourse yesterday, but those of us who are actually in the generation have explained this ad nauseam. We had the ultimate worst bullies and mean kids in our generation growing up, and they were never, EVER checked because adults didn't GAF. Also, Black Gen X is Democratic.

Lemon's got resources. I haven't seen anything set up yet for Ms. Fort. 😟 She needs help, and fast.

At the end of the day doesn’t matter if we like/admire folks they decide to test out full blown authoritarian violations of the constitution on. It matters that we fight for everyone to be protected by the constitution. Solidarity is not the same as fandom or friendship, solidarity is what wins.

“Independent” is doing too much work in this first wave. They are arresting journalists and just like everything else they’ve done, they’re testing the limits of our resistance by starting wt vulnerable margins.

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Don Lemon being arrested, along with the arrests of people in Minneapolis who’ve been trained as observers, amid a negotiation on a DHS bill where you able to just pocket a CR as a reprieve is a good demonstration of why a hardline against funding here is not only morally necessary but smart as well

This makes the post-9/11 NSA warrantless surveillance program look like digging through people's trash (which the FBI also did). That caused such a backlash there was still congressional activity on it a decade later. This is absolutely blood-chilling levels of state overreach and so far crickets.