Spent all evening bingeing this podcast by Yohance Lacour ...it was fantastic!

Damn Memphis did you at least pinch the bitch?

🤣🤣🤣 Let’s go Los Angeles Lakers !!!

Super excited about this release, as a former stan of Another Bad Creation’s “Iesha,” amped to revisit thoughts about the name and it’s “ghetto” connotations.

Biggest achievement of the weekend is the number of people that learned how to spell Shedeur.

Fred McKindra (Frederick McKindra) discusses America’s War on Drugs, examining the ways he received and subconsciously absorbed messaging that criminalized Blackness. electricliterature.com/im-still-unlea…

Universal public education was far from guaranteed in early America, adam harris writes. The work of freedpeople and their advocates during Reconstruction persuaded the nation to embrace the idea. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

“Butterfly in the sky, I’d like to see a bitch try~”

Thrilled to have Classy with Jonathan Menjivar and Magnificent Jerk with Maya Lin Sugarman on the The New Yorker Best Of 2023 list with so many other wonderful shows. Congrats all! 🍍

Unpopular Opinion: I just realized this AM that I MIGHT prefer Danielle’s voice to Tasia’s…😫🫣 Me, a 20 year Fantasia stan. Not that it’s a competition or nothin’, but I’m having to reevaluate some thangs. #TheColorPurple

Loved this thread giving some thought to interracial desire being result of blk men putting other blk men in friend/family zone rather than eroticizing them. So oftentimes ppl see interracial desire as internalized racism w/o considering this as a valid form of loving.

The lingo I’m grateful for being brought into the zeitgeist is “brother zoning” bc THAT has been my sexuality concerning blk men forever and I’ve never had lingo to talk about it! #JerrodCarmichaelRealityShow

THIS!

We’re thrilled to welcome Frederick McKindra (Frederick McKindra) to the OA team as a new associate editor!

Get into this COWBOY CARTER Roundtable from the OG Southern music mashup publication Oxford American oxfordamerican.org/web-only/a-cow…

New article on LR's McGraw Learning Institute and afrocentric education in the 90s for the July issue of Arkansas Times . arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/…

This gonna be our new president?

These are the people killing cats...