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Here for Embodied Black Joy! Activist | Educator | Advocate for Black Creativity, Black Love, Black Joy, Black Community, Black Beauty, and all things consciously Black! ✊🏾
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For those who need to see the connection between funding STEM and STEM Education research and your everyday life, please check out this article. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s...

Happy Mother’s Day to all mothers, grandmothers, other mothers, should have been mothers, wanna be mothers, was almost mothers, aunties, church mothers and community mothers! We appreciate you all!

Black Music Sunday: Songs for mamas, grandmas, and nurturers www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

You can't kill black history with funding cuts either lol. Black folks *are* black history and our story gets told despite, relatively and metaphorically speaking, not having two nickels to rub together over the past four centuries.

This travel experience has been one for the books. - woke up to a flat tire on Thursday. - layover flight was delayed - rental car was twice the listed price and the car booked wasn’t available. - hotel refused to check me in and had to call corporate. They refused corporate.

👇🏾 It’s what she did with ‘KLMNOP’ youtu.be/G0hYxuDav0g

I’m on the plane headed to see my Momma for Mother’s Day…. And beside me is this Black woman and white woman that know each other. They are talking about Trump. The white woman voted for him and the Black woman is going in on her…. She is giving this white woman the business, rightfully so!

😂😂😂

The level to which these federal regulations and cancellations are going to impact local communities needs to be elevated!

ILLINOIS… Gov. Pritzker…

Im tied boss

If you’re hitting the #cowboycarter concert, check out this Essence article first to make sure you’re rocking a Black owned brand! www.essence.com/fashion/blac...

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Back up here in the north side lol

Diabolical

Aite now…. I’m ready to get home lol

Marvin Sapp’s “Tiny Desk” was a good way to start this Sunday. The sweater, the effortless head voice (c’mon technique), the band. 😮‍💨

This.

Ithaca…it’s been cool… lol #Ontothenext

And it ain’t getting no better

It’s very dark and country looking up here….. ain’t no lights 😂

Despite getting things done and off my to-do list, I feel like there is still a million more things to do…. And everything is due at the same time 😩😩

Emmanuel “Manno” Bernoon, a former slave, opened one of the first restaurants in Rhode Island with his wife in the 1700s — and America may owe its love for oysters to their efforts

Over the weekend, the Department of Education threatened to pull federal funding from public schools that don’t dump DEI by the end of the month Though the letter lacks the force of law, advocates are warning about this latest attempt to squash diversity efforts

Add salt and pepper and you’re gucci no blackface!

Words of wisdom: Never trust a big butt and smile!

It’s hard not too… Especially when you go all out for someone and hope that they show the same kinda love back…

But good morning skeetas!!! What’s the word for today? How are you centering Black Joy?

Been a lil minute since I skeeted my thoughts

Diabolical 😂