YES BRENDA!

Kiki Shepard devoted her life to improving the lives of those living with sickle cell disease. In 2006, she founded The KIS Foundation to raise awareness.

Kiki Shepard, the longtime co-host of “Showtime at the Apollo,” has died. She was 74

Such elegance & beauty. 🙏🏾 🕊

An Original Baddie. 🥹

90s DJs on R&B stations after 10pm:

On this day in 1995, with the release of 'Me Against the World' Tupac Shakur became the first male solo artist to have a No.1 album on the Billboard chart while in prison.

I feel like if you a masc celeb getting fitted up for these shows, you gotta always keep in the back of your mind that *he* gon be there and step your shit up

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RDJ and Charlie Sheen used to tag team rehab and jail during the late 80s and like, all of the 90s. Redemption arc is wild!! Very lucky to still be here.

Wunmi Mosaku at Vanity Fair Oscar Party #fashionsky

This motherfucker has spent 10 years doing The Apprentice and a nation full of dumb asses voted for him 3 times.

Yea. Sorry to them ppl who lost their glasses

Individualistic mindsets have become the wave. We are literally encouraging people to be masters at being avoidant and alone, all the time. There is nothing wrong with being healthily attached to people.

Cause sometimes we need to suck it up and be there for our people. I’m tired of the excuses in the name of “self care” lol

I just need us all to be REAL about why it seems like people enter and exit our lives so often. Sometimes, it’s because they aren’t willing to show up for the people they say they’re friends with or care about. It’s the lack of effort and consideration. 🤷🏽‍♂️

Inconveniencing themselves for the sake of building and sustaining community.

Go on LinkedIn right now and you’ll find people with advanced degrees and decades of experience facing homelessness. It can happen to anyone. Your “good decisions” aren’t permanent protection from your life going off the rails.

I need this sign. 🖤🖤🖤 “NICE PEOPLE DANCING TO GOOD SOUL MUSIC”

When Barber shops started doing mandatory appointments, that's when we lost some of the culture ngl

A lot of their discourse over the last several years about "being friends with ppl with different opinions" was to shield bigots from having experiences like this 😭

The entitlement to comfort no matter what is one of their big ones.

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Wait, is this who Zazie’s character was loosely based from for ‘The Harder They Fall’…?

iono bruh my ministry says

Stronger reminder: white women are the ones who vote against womens progress.

Happy Birthday Amel Larrieux! album.ink/ALarrieuxHBD

I know many treat being an American as if we’re gonna have a red carpet rolled out for us by virtue of our nationality. Those days are gone. If traveling abroad, keep your head on a swivel and don’t be a blabbermouth.

OPSEC, short for Operational Security, for a military dependent like myself largely involved being aware of who was around and being careful not to share unnecessary information.

As a military brat, I’m gonna need my fellow Americans to get familiar with a concept I had to learn as a teenage dependent living abroad when the Khobar Towers bombing happened: OPSEC.

Cities used to have such life. Such color. Such distinctiveness.

That's the first song that comes to mind when I look at that album cover. It's perfection.

Mar 8, 1986: 40 years ago, Whitney Houston's self-titled debut album hit #1 on the Billboard album chart for the 1st time. #80s Held for a total of 14 non-consecutive weeks. #TheVoice

* Was $50 for me 😫

A woman reportedly fired several shots into the Beverly Hills home of Rihanna while the pop star was inside, the LA Times reports No injuries were reported in the incident, authorities said

The peak of civilization

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John Wilkes Booth was a weasel and a loser, the least talented person in his family. Those are the types of people racism breeds

They’re lying and overstating Confederate victories just like they’re found now with Irann. We’re just stuck living the same cycle of stupidity over and over again because they refuse to stop being racist

This show is full of mouth breathing, knuckle dragging gutter trash who’s only means of feeling superior were putting their dusty as boots on black people. We are still being hounded by their descendants to this day

I’m on E5 of The Grey House and the North really fought a whole Civil War then said, “I was just playing, you can have your slaves back” and this country has never recovered

Investors: "Anyway, we were so impressed that we invested the entire planets' economy in this, if it fails you're all cooked."

The shit just don't make no sense to me. If you know you don't know how some shit works, how the fuck did you think you were going to teach your little AI friend to do it?

Looks like a screenshot from a trailer for a cold-ass live action anime movie.

Same!

None of us who grew up in the Black church, attending Black schools in Black neighborhoods, have any questions about whether or not Black people have a culture. I will say that!

Oh snapppp! Rev. Dr. Jamal Bryant at the memorial service for Rev. Jesse Jackson: "The service wouldn't have been this long if were able to go to the Capitol, but the Capitol is now only reserved for pedophiles and podcasters." 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿