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Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl performance will be studied as a pivotal artistic moment during this time of upheaval. #kendricklamar #superbowl2025🏈

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Love this display of NOLA culture!! 🎺

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“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.” ― Abraham Lincoln

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A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s “Fork in the Road” program, which is part of a disturbing, strategic effort to eliminate government jobs. This is the latest twist in a maddening saga unfolding for millions of government employees. U.S. District…

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We are experiencing a Blitzkrieg.

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The National Council of Nonprofits and the American Public Health Association have filed a lawsuit seeking a temporary retraining order against the Trump admin over Trump's freeze of federal aid. @NBCNews

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Costco’s shareholders voted overwhelmingly to reject a proposal from a conservative think tank aimed at getting the company to roll back its diversity hiring practices.

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Almost 400 members of New York’s Black theater community came together last night at The Apollo Stages for a staged reading of Jordan Cooper’s “Ain’t No Mo” and a discussion of art making in turbulent times. Whew, what a night!

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The Apollo Theater partnered once again with @wnyc and @marchonfest to present our annual commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s life, legacy and teachings.

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If Musk can buy Twitter and potentially buy TikTok, he or another billionaire can buy Substack. That is why Democracy Docket is built on its own platform that it owns. No billionaires, no corporate overlords, no compromises. www.democracydocket.com

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Tonight’s hang… the Christian McBride Band at Mercury Lounge performing disk one from the “Live at Tonic” recording in celebration of the record’s 20th anniversary. #christianmcbrideband #liveattonic #winterjazzfestival #addtojazzsky

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Habari Gani?! Umoja! Happy Kwanzaa! #addtoblacksky

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I ventured out into the Christmas Eve abyss to pick up last minute gifts. The store I went to was fine. The traffic was horrible. Drivers weren’t joyful nor jolly. Ended up at Walgreens for gift certificates for the rest of my list because they turned me from Christmas Spirit to Ebenezer Scrooge.

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The Apollo received The Kennedy Center Honor and we couldn’t be more pleased! I’m happy to be a Legacy Maker at this venerable institution!

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"Johnson, who is forty-seven, grew up in what the curator Naomi Beckwith calls “the first big era of unapologetic Blackness.” His earliest works were made when he was a nineteen-year-old sophomore at Columbia College, in the Chicago suburb of Evanston." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Transitions: A Yolande Cornelia “Nikki” Giovanni (June 7, 1943 – December 9, 2024). Nikki will live forever! Artist always do! Ase! May she rest in peace and the multidimensional power she conjured while in this earth.

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Just in from a great jam session. Kamasi Washington and Trombone Shorty never disappoint. #apollotheater #kennedycenterhonors #afterafterparty #dcflow #addtojazzsky

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When you’re a Miles Davis fan and a Russell Gunn fan this album lives in rotation. Gunn’s 21st century interpretation of Davis’ work is masterful. #addtojazzsky

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Tonight the Apollo Theater receives the prestigious Kennedy Center Honor alongside Bonnie Raitt, Arturo Sandoval, Francis Ford Coppola and The Grateful Dead. What a way to celebrate 90 years of Black artistic excellence, culture, community and legacy!

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Just wrapped watching the Yacht Rock doc. It is sooo freaking good. Another glaring example of how video killed the radio star. Between MTV and radio consultants over segmenting the music we listened to on the air. They really fucked up the music game. Check out the doc on MAX.

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I went to the Ford Foundation for an event and was pleasantly surprised to bump into @radcliffebaileyjr. He’s been gone for a year and a month but he is ever present in conversation, visual encounters and space. #radcliffebailey #fordfoundation #blackart

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Doechii had the Apollo on fiyah Friday night. Her stage presence, music, lyrics, flow and conversation are 10+. She’s a serious contender for that Best New Artist Grammy to be sitting on her awards shelf. Refreshing. #doechii #apollotheater #rollingstone #musiciansonmusicians #addtoblacksky

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It's easier to focus on culture wars than to do the work of solving major problems. I don't care who pees where but I do care about healthcare and homelessness and infrastructure and education and, and, and ...

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I’ve been at it since 6:30 this morning. It’s 11:30 and a sister is tired. House guests are arriving in 10 minutes. I think I’m going to have them put the clean linen on their bed. Not my proudest hostess moment. I just can’t do no more.

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Mindfulness is one of the keys to vibrating higher. I started the day with my first foray into somatic yoga.

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Enjoyed an amazing night of music at Blue Note NYC featuring Weedie Braimah and Hands of Time with Pedrito Martinez. Whew! What a journey. It was an entire vibe. Not a crumb left. #artthangs #music #bluenotenyc #addtojazzsky

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Vibrate higher. #addtoblacksky

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After being home on the sick and shut-in list for the past week, it's time to head back to the office tomorrow. I'm baaack!!

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The sky I woke up to this morning. Happy Friday!

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