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beattyful.bsky.social

ALL Black Lives Matter here 🌈✊🏾Jersey girl in the City-So-Nice-They-Named-It-Twice 🗽

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My weekly list of must-read articles, some organizing resources, and a reflection on the ascent of Kash Patel. What should we expect from an FBI headed by a Trump acolyte? How can our communities prepare? I have some thoughts, history, and resources to share on the subject.

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

Professor who teaches African American studies here. If your school eliminates or bans it, I will personally host free zoom sessions, provide resources, or answer questions for students, parents/guardians, or teachers who are interested in learning or discussing African American studies.

submitted 20 days ago • 115 comments

Only two more sleeps before a visit from the big guy! Nosferatu

submitted 72 days ago • 2 comments

The Post’s year-long investigation found that three times as many Native American students had died at boarding schools between 1828 and 1970 as the U.S. government had previously reported.

submitted 73 days ago • 42 comments

My tribute to the late, great Tony Todd just went up on @fangoria.bsky.social online! It features an interview @kundalinisteve.bsky.social & I did with him. You can also hear the full interview I excerpt here on our podcast at www.lifewritingpodcast.com (Ep 149) www.fangoria.com/tony-todd-ca...

submitted 77 days ago • 21 comments

For SSIR, two leaders I admire immensely, Colette Pichon Battle and Enei Begaye, reflect on the outcome of the Environmental Justice Resourcing Collective - a group of women of color movement leaders who created a grantmaking strategy to move $75M to frontline communities.

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

Congratulations to all the DIF and DIFxTech grantees for 2025-2026! I'm looking forward to working with the DIFxTech folks, getting to know them better, and seeing all the amazing work they do! borealisphilanthropy.org/2024/12/09/t...

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

Bringing this video back - an insightful, intergenerational conversation between Nikki Giovanni + James Baldwin in 1971 on Blackness, “the village” and constructs of gender within the Black community. Rest in power #NikkiGiovanni 🕊️ #BlackSky youtu.be/y4OPYp4s0tc?...

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

Just finished The Reformatory by the brilliant @tananarivedue.bsky.social - thank you so much for this incredible story of resistance and resilience in the face of systemic dehumanization at such a massive and interconnected scale. One of the best books I’ve EVER read 🙏🏾❤️🖤💚✊🏾 THANK YOU!

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

I wrote about Seth Moulton, Rahm Emanuel, James Carville and other more centrist Democrats blaming progressives for Harris's defeat. Their arguments, in terms of election analysis, are weak. But we are in the midst of an intra-party conflict with high stakes. wapo.st/3ZGh5UV

submitted 91 days ago • 63 comments

More Americans have criminal records than union cards. But the 2-party system is so committed to fear & loathing that 4 years after the biggest protest mvmt in US history targeted policing, Biden has delivered no criminal legal reform & Trump promises to expand repression

submitted 93 days ago • 2 comments

joe biden pardon my student loans while ur at it

submitted 94 days ago • 9 comments