Does he WANT TYLENOL TO SUE THE U.S. GOVERNMENT???

Today would be a excellent day to donate to the Black Press. Start with @wordinblacknews.bsky.social givebutter.com/rnV3yA 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

Guy on MSNBC just said Charlie Kirk is NOT A POLITICAL FIGURE. What in the revisionist history simulation hell is this?

SO much revisionist history BS being spouted on cable news right now.

Acknowledging the existence of #racism does no good unless we're ready to make systemic changes to improve the situation. Americans Say Racism Exists, but Shrug at Solutions wordinblack.com/2025/08/amer... by @losangelista.bsky.social via @wordinblacknews.bsky.social

“Follow the money. Oil companies. Coal barons. Gas conglomerates. They win by weakening science and strengthening silence. They win when no one is watching. They win when the people’s voices are buried beneath lobbying dollars and propaganda.”https://wordinblack.com/2025/07/the-endangerment-is-us/

Join us on July 30 for a conversation with world-renowned experts Dr. Joy DeGruy & Dr. Bahia Cross about how we support Black youth growing up in a society shaped by anti-Black systems that too often fail to see their full humanity — and can do lasting harm. wordinblack.com/2025/07/word...

So it’s convict leasing.

loving this so far!

“There is a myth we tell ourselves about #Juneteenth, as if #freedom arrived suddenly, like a thunderclap, on June 19, 1865, with General Granger reading General Order No. 3 to the enslaved people in Galveston, Texas.” @wordinblacknews.bsky.social @mustafasantiagoali.bsky.social

You need to read this piece by @losangelista.bsky.social. wordinblack.com/2025/06/shou...

Folks need to stop getting on planes clearly FEVERISH and mask-free while hacking up a lung, sounding like they're at death's door. It's just rude, and I don't care what illness you have, I DO NOT WANT IT.

ALSO MY SON GRADUATES FROM COLLEGE TODAY!

Happy Heavenly 100th Birthday to our Beloved El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. Team @wordinblacknews.bsky.social put together some beautiful stories honoring the life, ideas, and legacy of Malcolm X. Whole series is here: wordinblack.com/category/ser...

Fantastic ending to Baroness Kidron's speech in the House of Lords yesterday, which led to the government's defeat on AI & copyright. Speaking the UK's creators: "Their property, their labour, is worthy of your protection - because apart from anything else, it is not ours to give away."

“It’s humiliating — humiliating for the United States to have Qatar provide the plane for the president of the United States." – Former White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter, who served in a Republican administration

Is Pope Leo Black? “Here’s another situation where, potentially, it’s a chance to revisit our assumptions about what makes race in the first place. Is it ancestry? Is it geography? Is it language? Is it biological?” says Phillipe Copeland, a professor & racial justice expert @bostonu.bsky.social.

Last day of #teacherappreciationweek so shout out to all the Black teachers. And special love to @selmekki.bsky.social who has dedicated his all to ensuring Black folks become teachers. He wrote this for @wordinblacknews.bsky.social about how to fight for schools wordinblack.com/2025/05/5-th...

As Brandon Johnson, @mayorofchicago.bsky.social put it, "Chicago has been at the center of the labor rights movement," making Pope Leo's election a “true sign that the rights of workers will be prioritized” by the Catholic church.

The Pope's social media team clearly needs to include his daily Wordle and Connections scores so we can see how we stack up. I also want to know what his streak count is.

I have a whole list of better names for a Chicago-born pope: Pope 588-2300 EMPIRE Pope Dan Ryan to 95th. Pope This Red Line Train Will Run Express to Howard Pope It's Time for the Percolater Pope 102.7 WBMXXXXXX Pope Fly the W

Pope Stony Island is part Louisiana Creole? Do Beyonce and Mama Tina know this yet?

Have we determined if the new Pope is a Cubs or a White Sox fan? Is he Pope Comiskey Park or Pope Wrigley Field?

When people say "innovation" nowadays, I usually think they're trying to sound like they have ideas, but they don't really.

I wrote about the new @pewresearch.org survey -- only 32% of Black Americans believe Black people will have equal rights some day. Who's more hopeful? 61% of whites, 59% of Asians, and 49% of Hispanic people still believe equality is possible.

The idea that American messaging to boys is “you’re bad” when they still get to be the heroes in most movies and shows, the vast majority industry leaders, the president, and the most followed and most popular people online kind of complicates the narrative

Collections proceedings on defaulted federal student loans start today. "The most important thing to know is that this decision is a political choice that prioritizes punishment over solutions," says Augustus Mays of @edtrust.bsky.social wordinblack.com/2025/04/hard...

What they did not expect is that Black folks believe in community — and we'll pull up for cinematic excellence that doesn't frame us through a deficit lens.

Y'all, I'm so so excited that WORD IN BLACK HAS A NEW SITE. We are not playing in 2025. The Black Press is DOUBLING DOWN on telling the truth -- just like we've been doing since 1827. wordinblack.com

OK, taking my son to see Sinners tonight-- my third viewing. His first. I am soooo excited to see what he thinks of it.

Black women have more student loan debt than anyone else. Augustus Mays of @edtrust.bsky.social says “Systemic inequities in income, employment, & wealth accumulation already place them at a financial disadvantage.” Trump’s collection tactics will make things worse. wordinblack.com/2025/04/hard...

Putting student loan defaulters in collections is "a political choice that prioritizes punishment over solutions," says Augustus Mays of @edtrust.bsky.social. Is cancellation dead? Braxton Brewington of @debtcollective.bsky.social says folks have to fight & organize. wordinblack.com/2025/04/hard...

Make time to go see Sinners this weekend. I screamed, laughed, and cried — and I liked it so much, I’m going to see it again tomorrow. It’s excellent.

The Fourth Circuit has denied Trump's appeal in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The court calls it "shocking" that the administration thinks it can "stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons" without due process. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I keep thinking about something that happened to my son & me last night. We were walking down to Sunset Blvd after leaving the Dodgers game. A drunk white woman coming out of the game walked alongside me and was yelling f***ing MAGA & tried to start a fight with me. Confusing. Weird. Upsetting. 1/5

It’s #jackierobinsonday and let me tell you, Black Los Angeles showed UP here at Dodger Stadium.

It is Jackie Robinson Day today, the anniversary of his breaking the color barrier in baseball on April 15, 1947. Wrote this for the 75th anniversary a couple of years ago, and I'm still so in awe of him and his widow, Rachel Robinson, who turns 103 this year. wordinblack.com/2022/04/sett...

Let me just be extremely trivial and say Lewis Hamilton gonna cause a damn car crash with this Vogue cover cos whewwww.

When Trump says "The Homegrowns" are next for deportation to El Salvador... you all know he's talking about BLACK PEOPLE, right?

CORRECT.

I 🫶🏿 you, fellow amazing people left of center, but we cannot afford some of the infighting I've seen over the past weekend relitigating 2016, 2020, and 2024. We don't have time! That man in DC is disappearing people off US soil into prison camps! Seriously going to need everyone to *snaps* FOCUS!

That earthquake alert, scared me so much. I threw myself under a table so fast and then whew, barely a rumble because we’re not in San Diego. Hope everyone is OK down there.

I love her, the energy of the show & the songs but on 2nd viewing the camera work for Missy’s set at Coachella was terrible. Instead of focusing on dancers & her at the right times they would do wide shots & when there was a dance break, the camera was not on it. I hope gets fixed for next week.

Pray tell, what kind of "technical error" causes the KTLA socials to post the n-word???

Just thinking about how when I moved to LA in 1998 to teach in Compton, Prop 227 had just passed, banning speaking Spanish to students for instructional purposes. Which, lol. That got repealed in 2016. I wonder if a "we won't give you federal $$ if you speak Spanish on campus" thing is coming.

Really thinking about the fact that 1.2M Americans died from covid and this nation kanyeshrugged it off. There's a numbness in response to our current situation that feels similar, especially among folks who aren't in community or seem to lack cousins.

I bet in 1863 after the Emancipation Proclamation, the NYT would have published “Stop Freaking Out. Slavery Can Still Work”

Thank you both. A lot of our lessons work well at college level too. (And students of all ages appreciate "less lecture, more participation" approach.) Like this one on multitude of constant, creative, brilliant, brave, varied ways people resisted enslavement. www.zinnedproject.org/materials/po...

Heh ok I’ll play along… List five famous people you've met, but ONE is a lie: 1) Aaliyah 2) Rakim 3) Orlando Bloom 4) Bobby Brown 5) Vincent Price

When Black Americans seek preventive care, there is still a level of advocacy and education needed. Here’s how to navigate common screenings: wordinblack.com/2025/03/heal...