A small thing my mom does when she texts me to say 'call me' is let me know in that same text that everything is okay. And let me tell you, as a person with anxiety? It's a godsend.

remembering that one time a reporter came to a diy noise show at The Silent Barn and the people who lived there hung up a big sign saying “THE NEW YORK TIMES RUINS NEIGHBORHOODS”

Not to be a jerk, but here are some top 10 hits MJ wrote:

Don't Stop Til You Get Enough
Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'
Beat It
Billie Jean
The Girl is Mine
Bad
The Way You Make Me Feel
I Just Can't Stop Loving You
Dirty Diana
Smooth Criminal
Black or White
Will You Be There

Also the last 3 minutes is pretty much Kenny’s thesis …

A peek inside the mind of a real villain ..and tidewater attitude/ethics

Congrats to my guy T A S H!!

With more than 100 inventions, including the lightsaber, Lanny Smoot has delighted Disney fans worldwide for decades. And now, he's the first Disney inventor since Walt Disney himself, inducted into the Inventors HOF. @skylerhenry has a look at some of his eye-popping creations.

The man who made the light saber from Brownsville & the man who made the game cartridge from QB. Real black excellence

Fam I got emotional watching this ..Black ppl really the best

So I’m just getting caught up on this FAMU $237M donation and ummm this man has on a mismatched blazer and pants. Help! 🙃😬🥴 tallahassee.com/story/news/202…

Louis Armstrong Plays For His Wife in Giza, 1961.

The ultimate flex ..for both of them. I need to get this framed

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Antoine Hardy observational introverts unite!

Such a great pleasure voicing Chucky’s Mum…

Michael. Stevie.

Colleagues: I am working on an introduction to investigative reporting course for the fall. If you teach, what reporting do you always include? If you don’t, what’s the best investigative report you’ve read in the last five years? Really looking for pieces that can be used to…

I woulda thought my flight was headed thru a time portal and started wiggin out

A whole racism. Like a big gallon of racism. Right here.

When I want to get to the roots of cultural appropriation (vs exploitation — which we often conflate for good reason), I use this brief piece (3 pgs.) I wrote in 2018 for a book by the Tang Teaching museum. Feel free to use and share:

drive.google.com/file/d/1deN2jM…