Welcome back to the Black Music Month Challenge, brought to you by @stillnaima.bsky.social and #MusicSermon For Day 27: A song they makes you say "they don't write songs like this no more." Today is all about the lyrics, the best songwriting, things that hit the mind, body, and soul.

I love this. Wondering if it’s too late to train my brain-

Cleaning house music starts with Uncle Charlie and the fellas! 🧹🧽🫧💃🏽

Growing up Saturday was the official “clean up the 🏠 day” so I must go with this- Take your time x S.O.S. Band The lyrics may have meant one thing, but in my home they meant another🤣😂 🎶Baby take your time (sweeping), you can do it, do it right (folding the fitted sheet😫) 🎶

Currently reading an ARC for Framing Fatherhood - Dr. Imani M. Cheers This is a coffee table book centering Black fathers and their children, featuring 125+ photos from 21 Black male photographers as well as several essays… It’s literally so sweet 🥺🥹🥰 #BlackBookSky 📚💙

Welcome back to the Black Music Month Challenge brought to you by @stillnaima.bsky.social and #MusicSermon We're in the home stretch now so for Day 26: if you're playing this, your house is bout to be spotless. I'm expecting a lot of old school today!!

This is so fun lol

Second returns for WNBA All-Star Voting presented by Ally are in! Remember that fan votes account for 50% of the decision on WNBA All-Star starters. Who do you want to see on the court in Chicago? ⭐ Only a couple days left to get your votes in! ➡️ www.wnba.com/allstar/vote...

youtu.be/ClFp8yqfokk?... #BlackSky #FredHammond #NPRTinyDesk #BlackMusicMonth

After reading essay by Martha S. Jones, do you wish you'd learned this history in school? Share this free HS lesson: "Beyond Loyalists & Patriots: Black and Native Americans Fight for Their Freedom in the U.S. War of Independence.” Includes Elizabeth Freeman. www.zinnedproject.org/materials/be...

Happy to share my contribution - an essay on Elizabeth Freeman - and the entire NYTimes Magazine Visions of America project, in print July 4. Freeman’s bequest to us was the struggle for liberty, and that started with family. Read and please comment. We’re reading! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

“The 'Saved by the Bell' icon opens up about stigma, lost roles and why she’s refusing to let a schizoaffective diagnosis end her story.” www.complex.com/pop-culture/...

Coco Gauff recently opened up about what it means to navigate life as a Black woman in spaces where few people look like you. #MadameNoireHeadlines | Read More: https://madamenoire.com/1678331/coco-gauff-on-being-a-black-woman-in-white-spaces/

Unlock TOR vs. ATL 🙌 Use your FREE WNBA ID to watch today's League Pass game on us. No subscription required. 📲 Tap in on the WNBA App: wnba.onelink.me/yKxu/hdws1rzd

Remembering Ed Bradley, the Pulitzer Prize and Emmy Award-winning veteran journalist who made history as the first Black American White House correspondent for CBS News, on what would have been his 85th birthday today. (Photo credit © CBS, courtesy of the Everett Collection). #EdBradley

Too many choices. Let's get a bit down the list. tidal.com/track/368929...

Day 21 Steelo x 702 😻 🎶 I'm gonna keep it real How you make me feel Boy, you give me chills, baby I'm gonna break it down You just drive me wild whenever you're around🎶

Seems like ever since the first day we met There is no one else I think of more than you Can't seem to forget Can't get you out my head Guess the verdict's in, I'm crazy over you

"Dial My Heart"-The Boys 🗣️I gotta cross my fingers and pray you'll know to dial my heart... #BlackMusicMonthChallenge

jade x i wanna love you

“Baby don’t you know… We’ve come to far to let it all end… I’ve told you over and over again… How I feel inside, but if you go… Ooh baby there’s something you should know…” youtu.be/9VDFaqcRav8?...

🎶With every passing moment, thoughts of you run through my head, every time that I'm near you, I realize that you're heaven sent baby🎶

Welcome back to the Black Music Month Challenge Day 21, brought to you by @stillnaima.bsky.social and #MusicSermon Today's prompt: You would have written the lyrics of this song in a note you passed to your crush. The songs you know in your heart of hearts they need to hear or you would send.

Happy Father’s Day to all the men who are fathers & those who have provided fathering in any capacity 🫶🏾🤗

When hunting for plankton, manta rays form long chains that loop around to form a massive, spiraling "cyclone". This synchronized circling creates a vortex that traps and concentrates plankton into a dense ball, allowing them to efficiently filter-feed together. 📹Alex Kydd

For America's 250th birthday, see her true colors. Filmed in Super 35 by Ernest Dickerson and enlarged to 70mm for select first-run engagements in 1992, Spike Lee's Oscar-nominated, Denzel Washington-starring MALCOLM X screens on 70mm 🎞️ on Saturday, July 4 and Tuesday, July 7. 🎟️: filmlinc.org/70

Knicks art in NYC with locations

#BlackMusicMonthChallenge Day 20 brought to you by @stillnaima.bsky.social via @brillianceproper.com - "...song that sounds like 'WE OUTSIDE.'" This one's a little too on the nose, but, in my defense, it literally has my name on it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpbK...

Who was the last person MLK’s talked to? How did Rick James & David Bowie become social justice activists? How did a naked NFL star change music forever? And what does Afro Sheen have to do with any of this?

"I have no choice but to be optimistic about the future of Black film. If Hollywood dismisses us, there is always something." Such an insightful interview with @mayascade.bsky.social

Today I am moved by power of this example of how Black people hold our own history. Without museums. W/o official declarations or monuments. In community. Happy Juneteenth!

America the Beautiful x Ray Charles. Steeped & grown in the soil, from the people that toiled. Sung with all the soul, sorrow, pain, love & pride that a Black man from the south could convey.

Day 19 #MusicSermon 2 for 1: We’re a winner x Curtis Mayfield/The Impressions & Move on up by him. 🎶We're living proof in alls alert That we're two from the good black earth & we're a winner & everybody knows it too We just keep on pushin!🎶

As soon as the beat drops music.apple.com/us/album/c-r...

"Yellow is the color of sunrays" youtu.be/1iQl46-zIcM?...

Welcome to the Juneteenth edition of the Black Music Month Challenge brought to you by @stillnaima.bsky.social and #MusicSermon And on behalf of Juneteenth, what is your Black National Anthem?

Please listen to this if you can. We were assigned this as a school project in 11th grade. This is when I found out that slavery was not as simple as it was being portrayed by either side and that a lot more resisted in ways white folks don’t know but also, not everybody wanted to be free.

For #Juneteenth: 70+ years after the Civil War, the WPA's Federal Writers' Project began interviewing elderly Americans who remembered being enslaved. These moving narratives & photos are now held here at the Library. Narratives: www.loc.gov/collections/... Photos: www.loc.gov/pictures/ite...

I curated a (mostly) exhaustive list of Juneteenth celebrations across the country. Chances are there’s one near you!

Welcome back to the #MusicSermon Black Music Month Challenge brought to you by @stillnaima.bsky.social For Day 18 we need your favorite collaboration. One time groups or duos, bands, producers with rappers, singers, songwriters...the many people who bring out the best in each other!