Today marks what would have been Whitney Houston's 56th birthday. May she rest in eternal peace. 🙏🏾

Simone Biles makes history as the first gymnast to land a double-double dismount — and it's incredible 🤩

Fam in South Africa please spread the word.

'When They See Us' star Jharrel Jerome dedicated his historic #Emmys win to the Exonerated Five — he's the first Afro-Latino actor to be nominated and awarded in an acting category

Please don’t use my father to suggest or assert that respectability cures racism. The white supremacy affirming racist discriminates against Black bodies whether the bodies are in sharp suits or in sagging pants. Lastly...my father was assassinated while dressed “respectably.”

The sculpture, called “Rumors of War,” is Kehinde Wiley’s first work of public art and his first major piece since his portrait of President Obama. nytimes.com/2019/09/27/art…

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Google "Who discovered Ebola?" and you get a bunch of names — all of them white Western males. Dr. Jean Jacques Muyembe has been written out of history. "Yes, but it is ..." he pauses. He takes a breath and laughs. "It is not correct," he says. n.pr/2BYahGs

WHAAAAAAT!!!! TheBurialOfKojo is up for a Golden Globe Nomination. First ever for Ghana. Just Wow!!! 🙌🏿🏆🇬🇭

For those of you planning on taking trips this December, please read this. Unfortunately our safety is seldom our choice. (ZORA) zora.medium.com/on-the-sexuali…

#Joy: #TheAcademy just disqualified another international #Oscar entry for its English dialogue. Details: buff.ly/36TMx4E.

#StarWars  - but make it Nigerian 💙 Book Reader l #TheRiseOfSkywalker 📸: Getty Images

"The new generation of artists coming from Africa are going to take you by storm, and the time has come." Angelique Kidjo graciously dedicates her #Grammy to Burna Boy 🙌🏿: bit.ly/30Xbutp

Pola Maneli's An Indigenous I/Eye is a figurative attempt at visualising blackness that is fluid and boundless, writes Zaza Hlalethwa ow.ly/tru150yq3xi

Our version of Bad boys for life😂 Guys kindly retweet🙏 We hope will smith and Martin Lawrence sees this

With all the revelations around his OkayAfrica treated black women, I urge you to read Yolanda Sangweni 🌱’s thread on what it was like for two black woman (her and phiona okumu) to start a digital platform for African culture from their own pockets. I stay learning from them.