For those responding to the #supremecourt last week. Here is what I wrote about it for our letter to the #future

We are still here. And yet, I find myself returning to this truth: the institutions, even the ones we love and lead, were not designed to heal what ails us. They were designed to manage it.  @patrickreyes.bsky.social auburnseminary.org/stories/2026...

If you’re in Brooklyn this weekend - take advantage of the Brooklyn Bookstore Crawl… sites.google.com/view/bklyn-b...

The lengths women go to uphold patriarchy, even when it consistently proves you disposable to power…🧐 If this is what you want for your household, that’s your business. But you have no say in mine. The Women Who Believe That Women Should Lose the Right to Vote www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

Trump—read the room. Memphis doesn’t want you in our city, mane!

TOMORROW: The system isn't broken by accident. So what does it actually take to fix it? We're joined by @adamgreen321.bsky.social,of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee to talk about why bold outsiders are winning races that nobody expected and what that means for American politics. 🎙️

#SpreadLove (Loads of it)

Had a time celebrating 100 years for Alpha Beta Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority this past weekend. On the yard at Fisk University…

My neighborhood speaks…

“Rosario’s story is one small piece of the history of Indigenous slavery.” www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran. No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles. Worth a watch. (🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

What does a nation owe its children? www.kolumnmagazine.com/2026/03/02/t...

TWEET OF THE DAY 🏆

When they tell you Black History Month ended Feb. 28 and it’s March 1st

I want Black people to always present the awards for Black people 🥹

This is a hugely important story: everyone concerned with learning and truth should read it. Presented with prompts about a lesser-known turn-of-the-last-century composer, an LLM produces a nice, clear readable evaluation of her Symphony No. 1 - which DOESN'T EXIST. Everything is made up. 😵‍💫

I laughed for a week at the original video because how many of us thought we were doing something and it turned out…..NOT!!! So glad she got that authentic TT hairdo treatment! ♥️

Another memorable ruling out of West Virginia, where Judge Goodwin — a Clinton appointee — excoriates the treatment of ICE detainees. "This is not what civil enforcement looks like in a humane system of government under law." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

Black people were hunted so thoroughly, that one had to craft a "masterwork of deliberate concealment" to protect them. Generations before Anne Frank

My first question was wondering how close this was to Broadway and my second was how close this was to the African Burial Grounds... Looks like literally one block away and then a 30 min walk down (i.e. close) We will never know the depths of the devastation Black people endured here #Reparations

“Wells performed a moral audit of the United States at a time when the nation was eager to declare itself healed after the Civil War.” www.kolumnmagazine.com/2026/02/09/i...

“Historical knowledge is a shared civic resource and a bedrock of accountability. Government suppression of the facts of history for political and ideological ends is a practice of authoritarianism.” www.oah.org/2026/01/24/s...

They were told by FEMA they had to “provide surveillance of immigrants, to eliminate DEI practices and to end support for Palestinian rights.” The church said, keep your $200,000. We’re not doing that. Kentucky church foregoes FEMA aid because of demands made baptistnews.com/article/kent...

#AMomentofJoy, another great Black dad edition

“Watch Night taught a people how to gather on a date—how to turn history into an annual appointment, how to rehearse emancipation even when the nation refuses to finish the job.” www.kolumnmagazine.com/2025/12/29/t...

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

Context you rarely hear: global stocks are up about 30% over the past year. U.S. stocks? Around 18%. That means American investors underperformed the world by about 12 percentage points, even while headlines called it a “fantastic year.”

This message hits hard.

I love how we keep asking Mary, “Girl, did you know?” Meanwhile….

"If the Government had the right to free us, she had a right to make some provision for us and since she did not make it soon after Emancipation she ought to make it now." -- Callie House, call for reparations, #tdih #otd 1898 #TeachTruth 🧵 Read ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/fi...

For the next two weeks we will be fundraising for our winter ministry project … consider partnering with our local ministry in providing grocery gift cards for the community venmo.com/u/solomon-MI...

I love the @metmuseum.org. It enriches the lives of NY’ers and visitors from across the world. That’s made possible by the people who make the Met run — the curators, educators and museum workers seeking to join @uaw.org Congrats to Met Museum workers on filing for this historic union election!

As bad as it is today, it is going to get worse. But hang on. Stay here. Someday we’ll all be free. youtu.be/D8xINki195I?...

Remember that the Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted for 381 days. Let’s stick this out together.

“May the points of our needles prick the slaveholder’s conscience.” —Angelina Grimké, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, 1836 blackdolls.nyhistory.org/Slavery-and-...

"Let our words match our work...." The Four Key Ingredients of Being Healing Centered open.substack.com/pub/shawnale...

A walk through my neighborhood a few days ago and ran into an eternal truth in a bit of an unlikely place: “Presidents are temporary. Wu-Tang is forever.”

“The jury only deliberated 67 minutes before returning a verdict of not guilty. One juror later said: "We wouldn't have taken so long if we hadn't stopped to drink pop." calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...

“The collaboration is a rebuke of the Trump administration and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s efforts to dramatically reshape the federal government’s public health apparatus.” newhampshirebulletin.com/2025/09/18/h...

Because American chattel slavery, that peculiar institution made famous in this HOT and SEXY SUCCESSFUL country was certainly a 400 year walk in the park. ****** Trump Says Smithsonian Focuses Too Much on ‘How Bad Slavery Was’ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/u...