I’m so excited to share my first feature documentary Black Teen Revolution, highlighting Black youth dance movements that shaped pop culture & the digital world. I heard from the creators behind dances like "Crank That," "Chicken Noodle Soup," & “Jerking” shorturl.at/dtWMz

This is why reparations isn’t just a question of American chattel slavery. It’s about the treatment of Black people in America from enslavement to this current day.

So today I’m learning that republican governors are legit refusing assistance for their states. That is blowing my mind.

I Always Think About How Fast Everything Happened In Black History. Crack Hitting The Streets 13 Years After The Civil Rights Act Was Passed Is Crazy To Me. (1/2)

For those that dont understand Swahili, these women are saying their bosses fled and left them behind and even refused to give them their passports so they cant evacuate & some were left/locked in the houses. Some were killed. This is the situation of African workers in Lebanon

Just when I thought I’ve seen all a braid could do

as we move toward election day I want everyone to keep in mind that this Listeria surge is 100% a ramification of the last Donald Trump presidency and his rollbacks on food safety and production regulations.

Ruby and Diane reunited!!

Some people seem to have forgotten how bad a president Trump was, so I made a list of the 100 Worst Things About the Trump Presidency, in no particular order. Please share and add anything I missed. 🧵

You can’t call your politics “pro life” if women are dying because of them.

I don’t have the capacity to discuss this tonight but we’re missing a huge piece of this convo when we say “America wasn’t ready for a woman to be president.” The BLACK aspect of this is a complex layer that can not be understated. Ppl couldn’t fathom being led by a BLACK woman.

Imma try to keep this brief but quick history lesson... this specific rhetoric is literally how the Nazi party rose to power. I studied abroad in Berlin and learned a lot about the Weimar Republic which I had never even heard of before. They don't teach it here on purpose (1/?)

Jermaine, the man who climbed a 19-story building on fire to save his bedridden mother.

Nikki at Toni’s 82nd birthday celebration. I’m pretty sure Toni posted this pic lol

I love that people are still discovering this fact every year, and I'll never not amplify it. On behalf of Jewel & all the other Black women behind legendary concepts that never get their credit.

no shade but we seriously need to assess why we are so extremely tough on Black creators while complaining about how there’s no Black creators as the white ones. like every Black person with an ounce of visibility is subject to the wildest scrutiny

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My hope for 2025 is that more people will open their eyes to the fact that when the wealthy/corporations are allowed to profit off of imprisonment, it guarantees the root causes of crime will never be addressed because too many people have a vested interest in keeping jails full.

NEW: Parents of OpenAI whistleblower hire private investigator after their son allegedly took his own life, suggest their son was killed. The parents of 26-year-old Suchir Balaji say their son had plans to see them in January, claim there were "signs of a fight." "I was the