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Adiba Nelson drops a children’s book that reinforces Black aesthetics and identity. The Afro-Latina author does this through the eyes of Yadira, a young girl who invites young readers along on a natural hair journey in Oshun and Me: A Story Of Love And Braids. flip.it/rICCZR

“One of the inventors I learned about, Garrett Morgan, created the stoplight. One of the creators of the Ford Bronco was a Black man—like, who would know that? One of the reasons I’m doing —this education, this history—can inspire someone else. Our young people need to see this.” flip.it/ZC4jor

"You smell good." flip.it/qV2MMY

Phone numbers to the companies owned by the needle dick Nazi. 👇🏾

When I tell y'all I fear for HBCUs ...

Once stripped of context, they have portrayed hierarchy-attenuating programs as reverse discrimination. This argument has been convincing to the conservative-leaning Supreme Court. … and other minority groups 🫤 and hear we are … flip.it/cpFdGa

My Lil Cousin went missing in houston PLEASE SHARE 77042 area code #Missing if spotted please reach out to me

A peaceful mind is a productive mind. Schedule some quiet time today to recharge. Good Morning!

We could've been a society...

The unexplained dismissals prompted widespread concern. “In some ways that’s even more chilling than firing the four stars,” Rosa Brooks, a GTown professor It’s what you do when you’re planning to break the law: you get rid of any lawyers who might try to slow you down.” flip.it/H8h3Ws

A senior miliary official with knowledge of the firings added that the military lawyers had “zero heads up” that they were being removed from office and that the top brass in the Army, Navy and Air Force were also caught unaware. — Pay attention to this!!! flip.it/H8h3Ws

“The Supreme Court’s response to this politically charged dilemma has all the markings of a compromise."

Trump's crusade against "wokeness" is co-opting the language of the civil rights movement to undo its legacy.

"The press and all people in the United States have the right to choose their own words and not be retaliated against by the government," the AP said in its lawsuit. https://buff.ly/436pt1S

Republican lawmakers sound antsy about cutting a program that benefits many of their own constituents.

South African Neo Nazis want to end democracy and bring back apartheid

In an unprecedented purge of the military’s senior leadership, President Donald Trump fired the top US general just moments before his defense secretary fired the chief of the US Navy and the vice chief of the Air Force.

In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.

Brown’s public support of Black Lives Matter after the police killing of George Floyd had made him fodder for the administration’s wars against “wokeism” in the military. —-This a BIG DEAL!!!! — guardrails be damned 😳😳😳—-WTF did y’all do electing the 🍊🤡?! flip.it/FtkGwS

apnews.com/article/vole... Voletta Wallace, Notorious B.I.G.'s mother and keeper of his legacy, dies at 78 RIP VolettaWallace #addtoblacksky

Wholly unsurprising

Very VERY happy with this Welcome to the Thing mini-sode I did. It's all about that halftime show and why *to me* it felt revolutionary. Give it a listen y'all, I'm proud of this one!

This should be being discussed! SecDef made disparaging coms about him before & looks to follow through on his original comments. COMPETENT military officials are important considering the 🥴🤡. Take a moment and read this. abcnews.go.com/Politics/joi...

Paired Up for Success: Test prep program assigns students to top tutors who look like them

Political candidates have used race as a primary wedge issue, seeking to rally white voters by demonizing racial & ethnic minorities, chief among them Black, Indigenous & Latino people. The rhetoric overplays false solidarity between different racial groups. flip.it/u_Pff9

abcnews.go.com/Politics/joi... - This IS A MAJOR STORY!!! Please pay attention to what the 🍊 mofo and his cronies are doing.

Smh a hard read but should not be overlooked!

Republican GOP are cowards 👇🏾

7 DAYS LEFT until applications are due for The Perry Second Chances Scholarship! We are awarding $10,000 PER WINNER to WOMEN ONLY impacted by incarceration As I pour through the apps, please pay attention to these reminders b/c some of your apps are being purged for not following directions.

Sullivan & Cromwell, has made it clear they will be “defending" 🍊🤡 by joining in his campaign to undermine the legitimacy of NY’s criminal justice system & with it the prosecs, the judge, & even the jurors who had the temerity to hold him to account for his crimes open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

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“… Coleman “was able to rise up and become the richest man, the richest Black man, in America as of 1900,” Concord author Norman McCullough Sr. said in 2022 “a clear unsung example of Black enterprise/capitalism after the Civil War.” flip.it/4oaDai