RIP Ms. Valerie Maynard 🖤 if you’ve ever taken the 125th st train you’ve seen her work. One of the GOATs.

In 24 hours I'm going to give one aspiring entrepreneur who retweets this tweet $1,000 to kickstart their business idea. Comment on this post with how you will use the money. (Make sure you follow me so I can dm you if you win :)

Baltimore community center sets example of creating 'supportive environments' for Black youth wbal.com/article/588603…

In 24 hours I’m giving away a FREE 2 night stay at this one of a kind family friendly Airbnb. To win post a comment, like or retweet. abnb.me/WBpnTKrYdvb Happy Thanksgiving 🦃

#twitterstorians especially those doing slavery & freedom histories, please take a look & donate to the Black women’s org The United Order of Tents w roots back to the Underground Railroad. Their historic Brooklyn building is under threat. Fwd widely gofundme.com/f/f9fzn-help-p…

‘I’m questioning if I can have success here:’ 5 Black Baltimore founders lament the dearth of local investment baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/im-que…

After coaching a lot of very successful people, here's an unsexy truth: A lot of success is learning to grind when it's boring. Staying engaged, working, and seeing it through when it's "boring" is a skill. If you expect all building to be exciting, you'll never make it.

Brian Brackeen "Payroll" is the most popular answer I get to the question I ask every founder or CEO. "What keeps you up at night?"

🧵 “I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her family is violence. Discrimination against a working man is violence. Ghetto housing is violence. Ignoring medical need is violence...

“Ensuring BIPOC business profitability and performance over time is a longer-term battle and the key to building generational wealth.” - Santiago Carrillo of Living Cities and melissa bradley of @1863ventures write. Learn more livingcities.org/blog/wealth-be…

A high school math teacher posed a historically impossible-to-answer question to her students. St. Mary’s Michelle Blouin Williams says she didn’t expect anyone to solve it, but two students made history when they did. cbsn.ws/3WoMc64

“If they are unicorns, then every single lady that has matriculated through this school is a beautiful, Black unicorn,” says St. Mary’s math teacher Michelle Blouin Williams. cbsn.ws/3wmBSkj

Baltimore Artist Charles Mason III Needs a New Kidney—and Quickly baltimorebeat.com/baltimore-arti…

“The measure of a person is what they do with power.” — Plato

Alabama’s Africatown is the only surviving community in the U.S. founded by Africans. For Juneteenth, 60 Minutes spotlights Anderson Cooper's 2023 report on the resilience of formerly enslaved Africans who built an enduring community after emancipation. cbsn.ws/3XvVYE8

A teacher demonstrating the power of words

Life is for living. Today I’m reminded how even in the darkest of times our ancestors found space for joy and celebration. joy is resistance. Joy is rebellion. Remember that as we go into this holiday weekend. Yes we must fight, but we gotta also hold close the joy. 💜🙏🏾