In deep sadness, I'm sharing news of the loss of Mimi Carrion-Loucks, a dear friend. My condolences to her husband Doug Loucks, her daughter Maya & all her loved ones & friends. We are doing a fundraiser to support her family in this time of sorrow, see below. www.gofundme.com/f/support-do...

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Don't forget to read the comments section and listen to the tunes folks are posting - and if you have an account, post the songs that you remember

#CaribbeanMatters: Commemorating Indian Arrival Days. Explore Indo-Caribbean history and contemporary communities www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Given the Trump cabal’s denialist stance on climate change, this battle has never been more critical. We need to deal with environmental issues here at home but we also need to be cognizant & supportive of organizations, initiatives, & leaders in our neighboring Caribbean region

Myrna Pagan is a member of The National Coucil of Elders & a resident of Vieques. She's going on this journey to learn how the people of Vietnam have coped w/ the environmental damage of the war. Vieques continues to be impacted by military waste & contamination. Please read more below.

Sunday morning thought: “You must never stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life." ― Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays. Image: © Rachel Giese Brown from www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/mary-o...

Support Myrna Pagan's trip to Vietnam to rep the children of Vieques. The National Council of Elders' intergenerational trip Viêt Nam to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the reunification of Viêt Nam / End of the War in Viêt Nam. Please repost, donate what you can. fundrazr.com/12WOJf?ref=a...

Love the theme of this week's Black Music Sunday! @deniseoliver-velez.bsky.social @dailykos.com www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Thank you Denise! I'm honored to be included in your tribute to Caribbean women writers in Caribbean Matters! Maryse Condé, Jamaica Kindcaid, Julia de Burgos, Edwidge Danticat and Mayra Santos Febres who @uprrp @Deoliver47 www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Mon, March 10, 2025, 2:30pm - 4:30pm, Lehman College! The Women's & Gender Studies Program & Africana Studies Dept hosts Fiercely Uplifting HerStory, A Celebration of Black History and Women's History! Featuring Linda La & Open Mic! Faculty, students and community welcome! FREE event RSVP Required.

"Black History is American History is 339 years of trauma is prologue to today's trauma is your History is unforgettable is unmistakenly uneraseable " - Mariposa,verse ekphrastically inspired by this dialogue. #blueskypoems #poetry #poems #writing #poets #poetsofbluesky youtube.com/watch?v=C0WZ...

George Washington House in Bridgetown, Barbados "a set of mannequin’s representing an enslaved man and child as well as a display case of chains, shackles, and tools for punishment" humanitiesmoments.org/moment/georg...

The one and only 🐐 Bob Marley would’ve turned 80 today 🙏 "Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, well everywhere is WAR."

A view for you @mellesol.bsky.social just a little more sky for your blue skies & some clouds for you to soar / Caribbean blue ocean blue almost as deep as my love for you

Happy Black History month! Join us as we celebrate the DIVERSITY of Blackness & honor it's Caribbean connections! Check out this week's Caribbean Matters by @deniseoliver-velez.bsky.social

Black Kos Tuesday: A muse on D.E.I. Commentary from Black Kos Editor Chitown Kev bsky.app/profile/chit... www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

@mellesol.bsky.social a little green for your Blue Skies.

Looking for my blue sky pics. @mellesol.bsky.social Love yours

These are some of the companies that have rolled back their DEI programs…..

For grown folks at these big companies that really used the wording “we are scaling back our DEI initiatives” just sound like you are saying to the people at company you can be homophobic, racist, misogynist, xenophobic a little now JUST a little.

My very awesome, very gorgeous, totally adorable, Geordi & Jadzia #linxpoint #cats #bondedsiblingpair #rescuecats #catsofbluesky #blueskycats #startrekcats

#CaribbeanMatters: The response to Biden's pardon of Marcus Garvey www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

"Putting Kamala Harris as VP into perspective. See the red box? Until then, she would have been enslaved. See the blue box? Until then, she couldn’t vote. Yellow box? Until then, she had to attend a segregated school. The green one? Until then she couldn’t have her own bank account."

Learn history and teach it to your children and all who will listen, particularly as it relates to the contributions of Black people and minority groups. One goal that’s becoming more than apparent is to “cleanse” the history books in the advancement of White Nationalism. This is not a drill.

pulls out my Tuskegee Airmen avirex thats a size too big, that I will be wearing all BHM, I'm about to be so obnoxiously Black this February. #Blacksky #Blackskyover40

Puerto Ricans in Philadelphia Battle Historical Inequalities in Health Services periodismoinvestigativo.com/2025/01/phil...

You need some gorgeous music in your day. Here it is.

Grateful to the Bronx Council of the Arts for inviting me to teach a 4 part workshop series on memoir writing.The Bronx Memoir Project. #free #rsvp on Eventbrite #memoir #writing #bronxarts