Nurse Hammam is still out here with his family, living in the ruins. Please donate to his campaign if you can.

Bring back rent parties! Our ancestors showed us the way! officiallangstonhughes.com/rent-parties...

Disney is reportedly exiting the deal it signed with OpenAI, in which it pledged to invest $1 billion in the company and agreed to license some of its characters for use in Sora

one of my all time favorite spring songs just came on shuffle

Today, we wrote to @propublica.org’s board of directors to inform them that our unit overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike and urge them to instruct management to agree to a fair contract now. Read our letter here: www.propublicaguild.org/updates/to-t...

Must read conversation: Marya E. Gates interviews Pamela Hutchinson oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/silent-fil...

As CBS retreats from radio - which 233 million Americans use - NPR remains on and the audience is up. The main CBS product was a short hourly newscast. NPR’s hourly news is on your local station - and also available on demand! Hit Play on the NPR app: apps.apple.com/us/app/npr-n...

Call your lawmakers.

a part of an artist’s job is interpretation. a singer, with their voice and stylistic choices. with johnny hartman’s stylistic choices “dedicated to you” is a song of deep longing. with ella fitzgerald’s interpretation the sam’s song is a whimsy tale of desire. youtu.be/TpbL9DzX8to?...

1/ Today, we overwhelmingly voted to authorize a STRIKE as we fight for a fair contract with @propublica.org.

watching “judging amy” — starring and created by amy brenneman as a family court judge— for the first time all the way through. deeply enjoying it, flaws and all. as a friend pointed out recently, it’s a real precursor to “the good wife” and co.

ultimately, forgiveness is the belief that change behavior is *possible* even when you don’t directly benefit from the change.

movements aren't separate from society. they are part of society. every social problem in society will be found in movements.

From Dolores Huerta: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for… I can no longer stay silent…” Full statement: medium.com/@dolores_hue...

i reckon it’s time for a new film on the art of journalism…. very few great journalism films and i believe it’s still possible.

The newest edition of @hammerandhope.bsky.social is now out! Find the entire issue here. A few highlights: hammerandhope.org

Today's a good day to watch or rewatch St. Clair Bourne's 1983 film The Black and the Green on @criterionchannl.bsky.social: www.criterionchannel.com/the-black-an...

✨ a new @milestonefilms.bsky.social acquisition by yours truly are two pioneering black; queer shorts by aarin burch. the first of the two shorts— 1989’s “dreams of passion” — is having its world restoration premiere at the los angeles festival of movies on 4/11 at 12:30 pm w/ director in person.

Instead, might I recommend this incredible piece from @angelicabastien.bsky.social and @mayascade.bsky.social, which I find to be far more pertinent: www.vulture.com/article/if-s...

@angelicabastien.bsky.social and i answer the question of the moment: "what does "sinners" record-breaking oscar nomination haul mean?" for the academy? everything. for the future of black film? history tells us it won't change much. for @vulture.com.

Both Maya & Angelica always have strong insights! With alt txt

what will it mean if “sinners” (2025) wins best picture? @angelicabastien.bsky.social and i answer the question of the moment for @vulture.com. www.vulture.com/article/if-s...

Great piece. We had this conversation after Black Panther's Oscar nod. At least that movie furthered the careers of Coogler and Jordan even if Hollywood didn't change. Forever RIP Chadwick.

👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻Tomorrow is become TODAY 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Not the main point of this piece but good that people keep remembering this

Once ‘Sinners’ became the most-nominated movie in Oscars history, supporting the film’s awards chances began to feel like a civic duty. But as Angelica Jade Bastién & Maya S. Cade write, the Academy needs ‘Sinners’ more than it needs a win.

"Oscars can placate. Oscars can shore up the industry’s low esteem. But audiences are better off expanding what they believe Black cinema can be by turning their gaze away from what Hollywood believes it can be."

@angelicabastien.bsky.social and i answer the question of the moment: "what does "sinners" record-breaking oscar nomination haul mean?" for the academy? everything. for the future of black film? history tells us it won't change much. for @vulture.com.

CHARLES BURNETT x BOOTS RILEY on the cover of A RABBIT’S FOOT. cover story by me! on newsstands 3/14.

...but the works of modern 'stans' operate an intricate network of obsession without the pay, authority, or access that a fan magazine would've allowed. stanning has boiled down to becoming an all consuming unpaid internship.

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Yep, that's right. DVDs, Blu-ray Discs, and VHS tapes are cool again. 😎📼📀 Marketplace correspondent Nova Safo recently checked out Los Angeles’ popular video rental store Vidiots to see what the fuss is all about: www.marketplace.org/story/2026/0...

New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:

as tumblr turns 19 today, i’m thinking about how it has re-ordered our online visual sense, curation, and how internet users talk to each other. tumblr remains the map the internet uses as a guide, the fountain virality drinks from, and the basis of algorithmic understanding of culture.

what's done is never final. history reminds us that the end of one era marks the beginning of another.

Attention small business owners: @baltimorebeat.bsky.social is now offering pay what you can ads! baltimorebeat.com/paywhatyouca...

This is a very, very good feature by E. Alex Jung on fanfiction, fujoshis and the Heated Rivalry phenomenon: www.vulture.com/article/heat...

M/M (male/male) romance has mostly remained in the basement of pop culture on fan fiction forums and e-books. Through ‘Heated Rivalry,’ what has been fringe has been let loose. The fujoshi switch has been flipped, and now everyone’s fujoing out.

i do not play with my duets research. enjoy www.youtube.com/watch?v=90ln...

The final film in our Three By Charles Burnett series is his charming 1999 drama THE ANNIHILATION OF FISH, now restored in a beautiful 4K restoration and screening on Feb 23-25 🎣 🎟️: thefridacinema.org/movies/the-a...

my thoughts on AI are intertwined to two essential truths: -i don’t cite or trust an amaglation of unsourced claims. -no thought, claim, truth, history can be told from a fixed, “neutral” point. an acknowledged author is a contract of trust between reader and writer.

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

on a flight with no wifi (a true joy), about to listen to a new to me album and write a review in my journal. 🙏

🚨 the theatrical poster of charles burnett’s “my brother’s wedding” for the new 4K restoration is here 🚨 world premiere tomorrow. poster first shared via @letterboxd.social @milestonefilms.bsky.social

the dichotomy between rated/“underrated” is being swallowed by an internet understanding of it: if it does not have tangible proof of a *fandom* it feels invisible even when history tells us otherwise. willful reimagining of impact isn’t the same as to forget.

sunday

the ‘optimization’ of gift giving via unpersonalized recommendations shakes me a bit. what fills their soul with whimsy? what speaks to their essence? what reminds you of them? let’s shop for or make that!