Scenes from a recent outdoor hike. 🪾🪾🚶🏿‍♂️🪾🪾 #TNWaterfalls #photography #waterfalls #nature

Fort Bend looks to highlight African American history with new monument, Black cowboy museum www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/new... "The whole point of this site is for every visitor who comes,... to feel connected to the stories that we're elevating there."

"The study also found that the majority of the AI reports fooled the detection tools: ZeroGPT erroneously classified 60% as written by a human, and GPTzero concluded this for more than 80%." 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#FavoritePhotos2025 The Harriet Tubman Monument and Gravesite. March 2025. #TeachHistory

Jo Ann Allen Boyce Dies at 84; She was one of the Clinton 12, a group of Black students who faced white mobs when desegregating a Tennessee high school in 1956 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/u...

“Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that.” #booksky #ChristmasEve

Illustration by Moomins author, Finnish artist Tove Jansson. #December25th #ArtAdvent 🎄 ❄️ #ChristmasDay 🤍

Imagine a lawyer rips off your elderly loved one so hard it costs your loved one a great deal of money, the lawyer his ability to continue to practice law, and nearly costs his ex-wife her house and as far as anyone knows, that lawyer still needs to pay your loved one back and you open the paper and

#FavoritePhotos2025 Niagara Falls. March 2025. #wateralls #photography #nature

Quitting smoking was the most difficult thing I’ve ever done. NGL, I enjoyed every one I ever put in my mouth. I quit cold turkey and have a nice 25 year streak going, but my craving for a cig has never really went away.

Five years after the Christmas Day Bombing, 2nd Ave N has reopened. #Nashville #2ndAveReopens

Negro Dolls for sale in Nashville. 1908. #northnashville #TeachHistory

Betty Reid Soskin, a National Treasure, Dies at 104 🗃️ #NationalParks open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

I wrote about the conservative quest to restore the "true" Constitution, the Antebellum Constitution, shorn of the egalitarian nonsense in the Reconstruction Amendments, a document that replaces equality with a society of dominators and the dominated. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

“Each day through my window I watch her as she passes by…” music.apple.com/us/album/jus...

#FavoritePhotos2025 Goree Island. Senegal. 🇸🇳 I cans remember the name of the dish but it was delicious!😋 *Four of us polished this off #food #photography #AfricanDishes.

#FavoritePhotos2025 January 2025. Dakar, Senegal. 🇸🇳

Early 20th Century “Dear Santa” Letters from #NorthNashville

A Christmas Conspiracy and a Carnival of Violence in Dover TN, 1856 As we enter into the week of Christmas, I am always reminded of the story about a reported, conspiracy of enslaved men living in and around the iron producing areas of MiddleTennessee. Real or imagined, the Christmas of 1856🧵

Artle #Artle December 21, 2025 🎨 🟩 ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ www.nga.gov/Artle

'Stained Glass' melted Felt, by US textile artist Susan Lenz #womensart

“Physical spaces carry memory in a way that transcends words. Nina Simone’s Childhood Home isn’t just a structure; it’s a vessel of her spirit, her struggle, and her genius. Preserving it gives us a place to return to. It reminds us that creativity, resistance, and beauty are born somewhere real…”

I made some sorrel last night and it is gud!😋 #libationsfridays #happyholidays #cocktails

#FavoritePhotos from 2025 I literally stayed up all night to witness this breathtaking sight. Watching it slowly disappear, I could understand how some cultures believed the moon was being devoured by a celestial beast. #photography #astrophotography #moonshot #lunareclipse

Officials in Tennessee aren't just banning books, they're now demanding information on who checked out contested (largely LGBTQ+) books, including names, addresses, and "household composition." A librarian who was given the directive has come forward asking for whistleblower protections.

You mean to tell me that a WW in a sleepy #Sacramento suburb was part of a White Supremacist Terrorist org? Weird, right? 🙄 www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

#Favoritephotos from 2025. Writing my first poem of 2025 and watching poetry in motion in Saly, Senegal. The basket on the woman’s head didn’t move an inch, even as she walked up a flight of stairs. January 2025. #Photography #Senegal🇸🇳 #Africa #Ocean #Poetry

This has been the long game.

My favorite photos from 2025. #photography #sunflowers #favoritephotos2025

Spotted in Nashville’s Public Square last night. Folks are not feeling Musk’s tunnel project and the wage theft that’s been ongoing since it started. #nashville

Study the history of Black schools during the Jim Crow era. The study of the Bordentown Manual Training and Industrial School is essential. #booksky

Black Agenda Report's was the ONLY year-end list my debut novel made when it came out. And check out what they recommend for the end of this year to get into that good stuff you're supposed to be reading.

In 1951, a Black teenager led a walkout of her segregated Virginia high school. On Tuesday, her statue replaced that of a Confederate general in the U.S. Capitol. apple.news/AgQoHlptDRC-...

For the planned African American museum in West Palm Beach, the Community Foundation is the glue stetnews.org/2025/12/15/a...

Sam Smith Lynching Every December 15, I visit Old Burke Road, the site of one of Davidson County’s most brutal lynchings. On this date in 1924, a group of white men abducted 15-year-old Samuel Smith from Nashville General Hospital and brought him here. 🧵

Amanda Kleintop does a deep dive into the compensation payments for emancipation in Maryland during the Civil War. How much were enslavers paid to accept emancipation & perform loyalty to the Union, and how much did that alienate the enslaved? www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/12/comp...

By extending the logics of institutional risk management to the economic futures of students, “loan” & “degree” insurance cement the troubling, and potentially self-defeating, idea that a college degree itself is a financial risk requiring protection. #edusky www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

The crescent moon as seen in the sky above the #QuarantineDeck this morning and an evening in Dakar, Senegal in January 2025. 🧵 On both occasions, it felt as though the moon whispered my name to get my attention. #astrophotography #moonshot #moon

Find restaurants, cafes, bakeries, & creameries that provide farm to table dining experiences by sourcing fresh ingredients directly from local farms & ranches. Formatted for mobile. Use desktop formatted version on a computer for the best browsing experience. myhealthforward.com/pages/farm-t...

After slavery, “white psychiatrists’ theories about Black religion and mental illness promoted claims of African Americans’ unfitness for freedom and bolstered broader arguments for political disenfranchisement and social marginalization,” @judithweisenfeld.com www.sciencenews.org/article/raci...

7 decades after Rosa Parks was thrust indelibly into U.S. history for refusing to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, new photos of the CRM icon taken by Matt Herron have been made public for the first time, highlighting aspects of her legacy often overlooked. sdvoice.info/unseen-photo...

Brrrrrrrr. Conditions in Hermitage TN this AM. The “feels like” temperature is disrespectful. 🥶 #deepfreeze #itscoldoutside

On this Wreaths Across America Day, I took a moment to join my Promise Land family and honor John and Arch Nesbitt, two of the original founders of the Promise Land community. 🧵 #photography #BlackHistory

If you need a quiet place to work or study for free, you can reserve a study room at your library. That's one thing your library offers you. I wrote a memoir manuscript by making daily reservations in a study room at a library after my shift as a literacy tutor in the hood.

These birds are downright disrespectful dropping in this early in the AM. 🦃 #wildturkeys #hermitagegobblers #getoffmylawn

Mosques, markets, and cats. Scenes from a trip to Istanbul Turkey. #FieldtripFriday #Photography #Istanbul #mosque #market #cats

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Finished grading; butter drawn. Time to get crackin… #crackmeup #crabclaws🦀 #foodsky

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