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My ♥️ beats notes 🎼 (scales), drums🪘, chords, keys 🎹 , strings🪕🎸, horns 🎺 🎷, and vocal 🗣️sound… 🎼…music.
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Mayor Cooley
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Who in the hell left the gate open?
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Derain Collier 5/29🎂
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HERE AND NOOOWWWWWWWWWW
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For the culture😉 “Let me borrow it” “Noo, my brother. You’ve got to buy your own“
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🎶Your fresh breath goes on & on While you chew it🎶
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“Good question, let’s find out. One, twoo, three… Three.”
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Dawn Summers real or fake
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Time to make the
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"I can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan..."
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“I learned it from watching you, dad! I LEARNED IT FROM WATCHING YOUUU!”
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Hyperallergic
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At 90, printmaker Mohammad Omer Khalil is getting his due. The New York-based Sudanese artist looks back on a lifetime of experimentation in a multi-city retrospective, starting at the Blackburn Study Center in Manhattan.
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At 90, Printmaker Mohammad Omer Khalil Gets His Due
The New York-based Sudanese artist looks back on a lifetime of experimentation in a multi-city retrospective.
https://hyperallergic.com/at-90-printmaker-mohammad-omer-khalil-gets-his-due/
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Hyperallergic
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This month, Los Angeles is brimming with overdue retrospectives of influential artists and illuminating showcases of previously unseen work. Here’s a list of our Top 10 must-see shows in the City of Angels.
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10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This May
Remembering Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, Yoko Ono’s first museum show in LA, Richard Mayhew’s “mindscapes,” Gordon Parks’s musical output, and more.
https://hyperallergic.com/10-art-shows-to-see-in-los-angeles-this-may/
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Eric Alper
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Laura JG
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By Diego Rivera (1886–1957), The Flower Vendor (Girl with Lilies), 1941, oil on masonite, Norton Simon Museum, Gift of Mr. Cary Grant, © Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
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Ma$on
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theconversation.com/motowns-blac...
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Motown’s Black women songwriters and producers were the invisible architects behind the pop music juggernaut
Few people probably know the female songwriters featured in this article, yet Motown relied heavily upon their contributions to cement its place in music history.
https://theconversation.com/motowns-black-women-songwriters-and-producers-were-the-invisible-architects-behind-the-pop-music-juggernaut-278514
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Soraya Nadia McDonald
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🎁🔗 here!
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Denyce Graves’s Second Act
Denyce Graves is retiring from performing after a career as one of opera’s leading women. But there’s more work for her to do.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/06/denyce-graves-opera-advocacy/686929/?gift=jJy9v3zv1Ktx3cfky_NDQsrGEUQ-qm6sr_p523qZqK8
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Before 5pm- Whoop After 5pm - Whoot! Different energies☺️
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On this date in 1993, Tag Team released their single “Whoomp! (There It Is)” Do you prefer Whoot or Whoomp?
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Eric Alper
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What fictional character would you love to hang with for a day?
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I will remember him as the man who colorized classic movies... oh & thanks for TCM... Condolences to his family....
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Mississippi Free Press
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In high school, Alex Bostic discovered his passion for illustration when he would sneak out of school during lunchtime & walk four blocks away to talk to artists at the Society of Illustrators. “I realized I wanted to be an illustrator because they told stories,” he said. “I love telling stories.”
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Alex Bostic: Retired Starkville Professor, Artist Designs Two America250 Stamps
Alex Bostic, an artist and illustrator who lives in Starkville, Mississippi, has designed three U.S. Forever stamps, two of which being part of the national America250 celebration.
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/person-of-the-day-alex-bostic-retired-starkville-professor-artist-designs-two-stamps-for-americas-250th-anniversary/
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JT (he/they)
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I’m tired of hearing about layoffs, especially when affordability is becoming an unavoidable issue. So if you’re looking in comms/PR or nonprofit space, let’s connect—I have some resources and connections across the US looking to hire.
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Hyperallergic
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The Center for Craft is accepting applications for the 2026 Craft Archive Fellowship, offering four $5,000 awards to support research on underrepresented craft histories in the United States.
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Call for Applications: 2026 Craft Archive Fellowship
The Center for Craft will award up to four $5,000 fellowships to support research on underrepresented craft histories, culminating in an article on Hyperallergic.
https://hyperallergic.com/call-for-applications-2026-craft-archive-fellowship/
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PBS News
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He's been called the "Pied Piper of Jazz" and "Doctor of Swing," but renowned trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis has now launched a new project, a kind of call and response for these times.
https://to.pbs.org/4wcCNOk
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Why Wynton Marsalis thinks jazz is the perfect metaphor for democracy
Renowned trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis has launched a new project, a kind of call and response for these times. Senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown met Marsalis at the Jazz at Lincoln Cen...
https://to.pbs.org/4wcCNOk
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I just shared this story with my bestie/soul mate. She was thrilled for them.
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She was flying across the country for a blind date. But she fell for her flight attendant | CNN
Angela Buckner boarded the flight to New York excited for a blind date. Then she locked eyes with flight attendant Brittany Hairston and everything changed.
https://www.cnn.com/travel/blind-date-flight-attendant-romance-chance-encounters?Date=20260503&Profile=CNN&utm_content=1777811840&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Fascinated by the images in this photography book! As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic x Teju Cole “…They are present as human beings, credible, fully engaged in their world” I will have to put this on my “get” list! 🤗🫶🏾
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Sassy Black Neighbor Is Not Reading Your Substack
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Other BK Museum tidbits:
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#museumsky
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Vouching for the Seydou Keita exhibit featuring
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on the transition from French colonial rule into independence in Mali. He was the state photographer when media was censored and cameras basically banned. Gorgeous work.
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I ran across this piece from GBH news & thought it was pretty interesting. 🫶🏾 The American Ancestors org is also running a really cool exhibit to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the US- Patriots of Color: Stories of Courage, Resistance, and Legacy.
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Is anyone actually 100% Black? Henry Louis Gates Jr. on DNA, race, and power
YouTube video by GBH News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL3WWHPfkyw
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𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂. 𓆩♡𓆪
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The gown is inspired by Robert Pruitt’s Venus Williams, Double Portrait (2022), a portrait of her commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery
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Hyperallergic
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Looking for art that may leave you feeling a bit more hopeful in these trying times? Hyperallergic has you covered with a list of 15 shows in NYC exhibiting playful, cerebral, and feral works.
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15 Art Shows to See in NYC This May
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye captures quietude, Seydou Keïta documents a revolution, Renée Green compiles an autoethnography, and much more.
https://hyperallergic.com/15-art-shows-to-see-in-nyc-this-may/
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Happy 81st Birthday, Kurt Loder 🎉🎂🎉 "Hi, I'm Kurt Loder with an MTV News Special Report." The way we would stop everything when he popped up on our screen...
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Angèle Etoundi Essamba, Cameroonian photographer known for her photography in black and white particularly
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Old School Favorites 🎧
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#TakeYouBackTue
1976 Remembering
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on his birthday 🎂 🕊️
youtu.be/U4aiBO8RPzk?si=eGS5AvO81GjAu9S6
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Shameka 🏀
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Anok Yai at The 2026 Met Gala 🔥🤌🏾
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Christopher Webb
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Wow 🤩 The Weather Channel posted this.
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lifeofjenius
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Post a character that starts with the letter W (First or Last): Whitley Gilbert
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Post a character that starts with the letter W (First or last) Jackson Heights own… Mr. Randy Watson (Sexual 🍫)😉
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Post a character that starts with the letter W (First or Last): Wee-Bey (Roland) Brice
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post a character that starts with the letter W (First or Last): weezy jefferson
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Post a character that starts with the letter W (First or Last) Willona Woods
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José García
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It's Mother's Day in Spain today. Featuring the amazing Cuban-Jamaican artist Harmonia Rosales, check her art if you haven't already!
www.harmoniarosales.art
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SiriusXM Urban View
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Congratulations to Kameirah Johnson for her art making Google's homepage. She's truly Black & Proud.
#UrbanViewMornings
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Google to feature Seattle teen’s painting inspired by Black hair
A Seattle-area high school student is among five finalists in the national Doodle for Google Contest. Her artwork will be displayed on Google’s homepage on April 28.
https://www.opb.org/article/2026/04/26/google-to-feature-seattle-teens-painting-inspired-by-black-hair/
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WNBA
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With 4️⃣ days left until Tip-Off, we’re reliving a run of dominance at the top. A'ja Wilson is an A’One of one talent with 4️⃣ Kia MVP awards. The only player to ever do it.
#WNBATipOff
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Wow!
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The Real Lover Girl 😘
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This is GORGEOUUUSSSSS 😍😍😍 Hopefully I get to support her and get a whole bunch of her pieces in the near future.
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