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@luriedanielfavors.bsky.social This was EXCELLENT, as per usual! I absolutely love when you have EbonyJanice on @urbanviewradio.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥

I REPEAT: RACISM may not be a deal breaker for y'all, but it's ALWAYS...ALWAYS...ALWAYS a deal breaker for us!!

Clearing #Blackskyspeakeasy

🤖🤖🤖 Nope!

I should be asleep, but once again sleep don’t come easy. So, I’m up watching garden videos. Zone: 6-Chicago, my hometown

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“One strange feature of Blackness is how often it is treated as static. Like Black just is as it will ever be. But displaced and misnamed people are ever evolving out of necessity. The truth is the condition is like waterways, blood vessels, circuits.” -Imani Perry, Black in Blues

I was out searching for signs of life in the garden after replenishing a few bird feeders. Last week, the garden was completely covered in snow w/20° temps and this week a wee bit of warmth and an abundance of sunshine. ☀️✨ •Burning Bush •Spirea •Spirea •Sedums

Listening now… #blackbooksky

“You see? Blue is a portal. Our ancestors have worked so hard from the other side to keep us going; this is how we tend to them in return.” -Imani Perry, Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People Well worth the wait, beautifully narrated. I’m not ready to surrender this book.

“In a time and place where people caught hell quicker than a cold, a country harder than iron if you were born Black, books became an anchor, heavier than a plow in Jim Crow America.” -Imani Perry, Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People

Chattel slavery was a pedophile economy.

The fall veggies are looking pretty good. The bugs are leaving them alone at least.

The hard frost demolished a lot of things that were still hanging around in the garden but the pansies survived 🥰 #Bloomscrolling

“Jocelyn Brown tells the story behind her iconic 1984 single ‘Somebody Else’s Guy’.” “Jocelyn Brown also shares how she never received any royalties for the single, giving a stark insight into the realities of the music industry of the time.” #blackskyover40

“George Washington Carver was many things over his lifetime: a student, a teacher, an artist, a researcher, an environmentalist, a pianist, an inventor. A new exhibit weaves his rare artworks and unpublished materials and contemporary art by those influenced by his legacy.” 🌱

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11/14 “Do not let anyone take the peace that you have worked so hard to create. Protect this new life of tranquility that you have built for yourself.” -Ancestor Said, Ehime Ora #blackskywellness

“Rhythms of the Land is a valentine to generations of Black farmers in the United States from the enslavement period to the present, whose intense love of the land and dedication to community enabled them to survive against overwhelming odds.” 🌱

“A woman who feeds herself can’t be bribed. A woman with her own paycheck can’t be owned. A woman with a community doesn’t need a savior.”

Joan Little’s 1975 murder trial inspired a national campaign for racial justice, prisoner’s rights, and survivors’ rights to self-defense.

Clearing #Blackskyspeakeasy

First Snowfall 25° with a real feel 16° 🥶🥶🥶

Your mental health deserves more than quick fixes…it deserves care, consistency, and compassion.

“Black joy Joy is the will Is the dimple that has endured A dance so deep in a dark cheek A wound without a scar Without a trace The humour of hurt Is the hell of being healed Joy daps death Lives in the grin Singing from the blood Bathes in a smirk Testifies tenderness in a tear”

Listen, the King of Asgard don’t give a damn about your daylight or your saving time. Schedules must be adhered to. Still waiting on the extra hour, cause sleep don’t come easy and I’m going down. Had us out here looking like ashy chocolate at 6 in the morning, on this brisk fall day.

Yeah, I am that old. 🙂

🎶I was at home feelin' sleazy So I went down to the speakeasy🎶 *body rolls, body rolls* See, look what you done started this morning. @luvrunr.bsky.social

Finally!!! I have been waiting for this book since forever-ever (Apr. 27🤭). The wait for Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert was long too, (very entertaining BTW) but this is the longest wait to date. Please believe, I am going to take my sweet time and savor every word! #blackbooksky

107 Days could’ve been entitled, “You’re Damned If You Do + Damned If You Don’t”. It was transparent, thorough, + yes, very good but a painful listen. We didn’t have to be here! “Two of the trending searches after the election: •What is a tariff? •Can I change my vote?” -Kamala Harris, 107 Days

“This documentary follows these Indigenous seed keepers as they honor their sacred responsibility to regenerate, re-matriate and safeguard heirloom seeds for future generations and offers a powerful view of what is possible in Indigenous communities working towards food sovereignty.” 🌱

A sitting congressman told SNAP recipients to “stop smoking crack.” So today’s Sunday sermon is a rebuke of his cruelty. open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...

Happy Halloween

These people are really tap dancing on my one good GD nerve!!!

“You don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking." — Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

10/31 “Other people’s dislike of you should not be the reason for you to dislike yourself. You’re the one in your body, after all.” -Ancestor Said, Ehime Ora

10/30 “Maybe the goal shouldn’t be constant joy or happiness, but peace. A cool neutral. To experience life with a balanced center, no matter what.” -Ancestor Said, Ehime Ora

HOW TO SLAY A DRAGON (A poem about the day I met myself) - by poet Dr. Rebecca Dupas #poetry #art #poetrycommunity

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Positive Obsession was an excellent listen. If you are someone who has cursory knowledge of Octavia Butler or if you’ve been intimidated by her work like me, this is definitely the book for you. This book is a cultural biography, but it feels like a love letter.

“It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate." — James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time Left Photo-yesterday Right Photo-today

10/29 “It’s okay to be wrong, but it’s important to be accountable when you are corrected. Humility matters.” -Ancestor Said, Ehime Ora