The right to vote was purchased in blood. It angers me to no end that we have elders who fought for access to the ballot, secured the right, and can now see it stripped from them yet again in their lifetime. We live in shameful times.
“This is not the color-blindness of Martin Luther King Jr., but what the scholar Ian Haney López has called ‘reactionary colorblindness,’ the purpose of which is to maintain racial hierarchy through superficially neutral means.”
I’m quoted in @justintinsley.bsky.social’s latest for @andscape.social.coop.ap.brid.gy.
The pen in mighty. Y’all should check this out.
Thanks for including me.
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Last week, I appeared on The Lead with Jake Tapper to discuss the dismantling of the slavery exhibit in The President’s House at Independence Mall in Philadelphia, the fight to preserve it, and it’s partial restoration. Grateful for the opportunity.
#CNN #TheLeadCNN
#America250
#BlackHistory
I’ve been saying for months this outcome was inevitable.
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I wrote about #OnaJudge and the fight to preserve her story for @us.theconversation.com back in February. You may read more below.
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Many thanks to Mickey Factz for visiting my class on Kendrick Lamar at Temple University (“Kendrick Lamar and the Morale of the m.A.A.d city”).
We discussed his career, the Blog Era, collaborating with Kendrick, and what makes Kendrick such a compelling writer. We even got a bar breakdown.
I need to do better about sharing on here. I was on the latest episode of @msolurin.bsky.social’s #OlayandFriends. Y’all should give it a listen.
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Happy #OnaJudgeDay! On this day 230 years ago, she made the daring decision to free herself.
May her courage remind us that freedom is possible; that freedom happens within community; and that freedom is a constant struggle.
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“Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler” -Susana M. Morris
“The Philadelphia Negro” -W.E.B. Du Bois
“Africa Remembered: Narratives by West Africans from the Era and f the Slave Trade” -Philip D. Curtin
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The Supreme Court rules that white people can disenfranchise Black voters for political advantage.
www.theatlantic.com
In an era where suspicion outpaces evidence, fairly or not, JAY-Z’s empire has become a mirror for collective cynicism about power and ascent.
In conversation with convenor Dr Timothy Wellbeck, we go inside the Kendrick Lamar university course on offer at Temple University this autumn, covering his discography, the Drake beef and the wider s...
Since we're talking about literacy...
Q: What book(s) are you currently reading?
Drake’s federal defamation suit against Universal Music Group has been thrown out of court, TMZ reports
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Drake just took a big legal loss against his own record label ... because his federal defamation suit against Universal Music Group has been thrown out of court.
