If you love "I Love the Lord" on The Preacher's Wife soundtrack? That's Richard Smallwood. His sound was undeniably his. What a gift to the world.

Thank you for putting Carmen De La Lavallade on my timeline! She danced in Lydia Bailey too, Hollywood's only film about the Haitian Revolution - & her love story with her husband is 💙! And she stood up to *rump in 2017 when she got her Kennedy Center honors. A beautiful & inspiring artist!

!!!!!!!! And they know it, that’s why they fight so hard against a high speed train

Sugar has me in a chokehold. ☹️

a major part of the problem

The plane breaking apart on beat followed by “take the scenic route” is frying me 😭

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Now I’m wondering where “Wallah!” comes from because I never thought about how it’s used to replace “voila“

My family in Ghana has talked about this. What’s interesting is Black Americans have moved to Ghana and other countries on the continent for decades, but there’s a difference between the Kwame Toure, WEB DuBois and Geronimo Pratts moving there in the past and this current trend.

Before anyone tries to sing Total Praise on Watch Night: youtu.be/fanibKS3CNw?... #RIP Richard Smallwood

“We have a great deal of criticism and loathing for what men have been socialized to be in this society…But we do not have the misguided notion that it is their maleness, per se -i.e., their biological maleness- that makes them what they are.” I ponder this often as a mother of a boy.

Spanish and Kiswahili

One of my family group chats recently devolved into chaos about this very thing. It is interesting (to say the least) to see how common this is across our community. I hope I and my fellow parents can change this with our young sons.

Richard Smallwood, a gospel giant and songwriter known for classics like “Center of My Joy” and “Total Praise,” has died. He was 77

Richard Smallwood walked so that Donald Lawrence, Kirk Franklin, Kurt Carr, & Ricky Dillard could run. there will never be another like him. EVER.

i made a joke that it’s always correct to break someone’s Meta glasses and someone said i was endangering the lives of all glasses wearers, who are “usually neurodivergent”

Here’s my favorite video of him telling the choir the CORRECT notes for Total Praise, that I saved months ago so I can use it against my MD.

Carmen de Lavallade brought us so much beauty, color, and grace. According to the National Black Theater, she passed yesterday. What a privilege to be able to introduce my mother to this woman whose art she taught me to love and appreciate. Rest well, Dame de Lavallade, and thank you. 💗

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a lot of people seem to be angry *AT USPS* instead of at the agents behind ruining usps. you are mad at CONSERVATIVES, and liberals who do not change the damage conservatives have done to usps when they have had the chance. usps has to work with what they're allowed under circumstances they're given

i for one will not forget when folks found out the post office was a way for more than few negroes to touch middle class and then all of a sudden (2006) it needs to fund it's own retirement plan. that rule applies to no other federal agency. 20 YEARS LATER...yeah aight.

bsky.app/profile/pixi... Dropping here, so MY people know what Gil was saying! White people wont ever stop co-opting but we must know the originals and their meanings.

Okay so now my fear that bridges and overpasses will collapse while I’m driving over them makes sense. I always thought I just had bad driving anxiety

With the Moon high in the sky and Orion rising in the east I was able to get a well-lit foreground and nice stars above Wukoki Pueblo and Sunset Crater Volcano. •Wupatki National Monument •Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument #landscape 📷 #astrophotography

I understand a lot of people are invested in the idea of culture as ancillary to our material conditions but it’s quite central to the question.

and this is why I love me a good “old head” hole in the wall type spot.

Reminder that years ago it was found out that the FBI straight up made up a whole bunch of fake forensic sciences, plural. People have gone to jail and been executed due to literally pseudoscience. Hair forensics, for instance, is totally nonsense. They admitted it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

hey y'all, so my job (a non-profit) is building a library--of rare, unique, & banned books--which will be housed in anacostia (SE!!) we're hosting a film screening & panel discussion/fundraiser on MLK weekend, 1/18/26 come support a great cause! www.eventbrite.com/e/unbanned-f...

Like in a world that isn’t built on scarcity & doesn’t require ppl to work to survive A world that isn’t incessantly pushing work & productivity & resource accumulation In this case, yes, I want AI to take on certain jobs. As long as the AI isn’t sentient & the job isn’t creative Let people rest

"I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless robots who protect them and their property," - Assata Shakur

Me thanking her for Virgo’s Groove right before we eat the rich

Like what’s the point of doing all that to be a billionaire but still gotta answer to people?

She can't speak up about those things b/c of where she and Jay have positioned themselves. They are beholden to someone or something but it is not the people.

that nail salon used to be a burger joint with a gambling spot in the back that gourmet restaurant used to be a bodega that yoga studio used to be a Black owned vintage store that bookstore used to be a hardware shop that grocery store used to be a church that seafood spot used to be a bike shop

Winter girl sketch :)

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Angélique-Marguerite du Coudray, 18thc French midwife who designed various innovative textile models to teach midwife trainees about delivering babies, saving the lives of thousands of mothers & infants #Womensart Find out more re women's weird/wonderful textile arts in bookshop.org/beta-search?...

The wind sounds quite aggressive. What is going on out there? If we have a storm coming, it wasn’t mentioned at all in the forecast.

Hey … if your kids have a niche interest and hobbies PLEASE do your best to support them and get them in community with other like minded kids. A lot of the wonder leaves the kids in our community because there’s no place to nurture it.

Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 - July 30, 2022)

🖖 Nichelle Nichols

The Crypt of Anagni The so-called Sistine Chapel of the Middle Ages, built between 1072 and 1104

Yall remember when the inside of cars used to look like this

me hitting like on this with my greasy taco bell fingers, slurping my baja blast zero

Strutting music. #ZodiJams open.spotify.com/track/5plH9T...

I need new music from my Beaumont baby Teezo Touchdown. If he tours in 2026 I aim to go see him. #ZodiJams open.spotify.com/track/5iONkk...

It has been so hot the last week or two that the mosquitoes, geckos, lizards, & songbirds around the house think it is springtime. All the critters are extra active when they should be resting! The weather patterns of the last few years are not normal. IDC about recency bias. This mess is weird!

Also for the fellas... Read comics. Its reading mane.

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