Protestors are currently shutting down a major area of commerce in downtown Los Angeles

Today is hard. Thinking about Michele Wallace, who lost her mother today as well. Faith Ringgold was a mother and modeled the complexity of it well.

There is a historical example that shows that the Iranian retaliation against Israel could perhaps have been evaded.

The US, UK, and France prevented the UN Security Council from condemning the Israeli attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus despite it being a flagrant…

im blown that we are in 2024 and war is still a strategy used by world leaders to resolve conflict. it is so ancient, outdated, and ineffective.

Faith Ringgold, a champion of Black arts, activist and children’s author that was best known for what she called “story quilts,” has died at 93.

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“Pray for him”

Ben Crump and Larry Handfield representing Miami-Dade resident Donald Armstrong want charges dropped.

The man is paralyzed inside jail after getting shot 6 times by Miami police.

Armstrong charged with agg assault on officer and resisting.

NBC 6 South Florida

Donald Armstrong: Miami Man In Mental Health Crisis Shot 6 Times And Charged With Assaulting Officer dlvr.it/T5L5kQ

Donald Armstrong was tased and shot by police officers last month while he was having a mental health crisis. Now he is facing two charges including aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer and resisting an officer without violence.

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This was definitely one of the wildest experiences in my life. Not because it was tiny desk but because this moment was a catalyst for me to let go of mad shit I’ve been holding onto and acknowledge my grief in a substantial way. And having to do that publicly was insane.

So many Africans were killed during the Middle Passage that it altered the behavior & swim patterns of the sharks in the ocean. We haven’t even begun to unpack it all.

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Video from Pomona College showing the massive police presence. School administration has ordered the arrest of at least 21 students. This should be getting national attention.

I wake up & it breaks my heart.

—Cameron Awkward-Rich, 'Meditations In An Emergency'

Durham, see you at Duke Coffeehouse today! Looking forward ✨✨✨

We’re teaching poetry workshops in the local school district and their evals are killing me im gonna weep

open.spotify.com/album/1O2ncFad… what is an album that feels like a prayer during a confusingly difficult phase. drowning myself in some
aja monet supremacy, which feels like an unapologetic ode to so many inexplicable emotions

if anyone has any good articles or studies about white people and the racial policing by way of noise complaints against Black people. Or the different relationships to sound/noise based on race please send my way. thanks. 🙏🏾

We’re sad to learn that beloved Guadalupian author Maryse Conde has joined the ancestors. She headlined #AkeFest20 in 2020. To celebrate her, we got women authors from around the world to pay tribute to her. Watch it here: youtu.be/3wwpprswWi8?si…
Rest in Peace, Ms Conde.