There was no section 8 When yall FLED here illegally. You established ORGANIZED CRIME FAMILIES. You extorted, you murdered, you bribed, you stole, & you begged to be accepted as white. 😊. Nothing about yall gave off upstanding citizen.

“Why are folks getting dumber?” Because they don’t read. “Why aren’t men as romantic & poetic as they used to be?” Because they don’t read. “Why are people so vulnerable to propaganda?” “Why is everyone a conspiracy theorist?” Because they don’t read. Because they don’t read.

Step into Spike Lee’s Crooklyn through the eyes of a little Black girl carrying weight she never should’ve held. This reflection unbraids hyper-independence, misogynoir, and the quiet traumas we normalize in Black families--revealing how generational t... thebraidblog.com/2025/12/09/det…

Read on my Substack! open.substack.com/pub/thebraidbl…

Don't Throw the Baby Out With the Bath Water Can I argue that I agree with the boomers and beyond that we should preserve tradition—some parts of it, at least? open.substack.com/pub/thebraidbl…

I Suppose I'm Torturing Myself Tonight open.substack.com/pub/thebraidbl…

On releasing my inhibitions, briefly. open.substack.com/pub/theworldto…

cunty crab I just finish watching it again at 2 AM last night. I loved your article! As the eldest child of two , my mother wanted me to take care of my baby brother. My mom’s been gone 12 years and I still feel the obligation to watch over him. I cried after rewatching.

Education is SOOOOO IMPORTANT. Degrees, licenses, certs. Training classes. Late nights and early morning studying. Weekend and night school. Community college, don’t matter what it takes. JUST DO IT.

Renee Nicole Good is the second person who has been killed by ICE this week. In LA, ICE killed Keith Porter in his own home as he celebrated on New Year’s Eve.

A jack of all trades is master of none… open.substack.com/pub/theworldto…

its so fucking disgusting that this man was murdered over a week ago and he has barely received any coverage bc hes a black man. racism is a disgusting beast

Make books great again! 🫡

If you don't think that YOUR culture is worth preserving and protecting from appropriation and colonization, then that's on you. But MINE is.

the amount of men asking "what if she gets her period and starts a war" about a 60 year old woman is a prime example of why men need to stay out of our reproductive rights.

This is absolutely terrifying. This is the chair of the Federal Reserve telling the American people they cannot trust the current administration and that fed rates will essentially just be made up numbers based on NOTHING by the regime. They’re gonna tank the economy on purpose

What a wild sentence to read. It’s not shocking, Black Americans have warned about this for decades. When we say that Black liberation is everyone’s liberation, what did you think we were talking about?

A true lover girl is a leaver too. Because if it comes down to it she loves herself more than she loves you.

i know it's really unpleasant but please don't look away from what's happening, we need to all be in loud vocal opposition to this

In Sweet Heat (2025), Bolu Babalola delivers romance with depth--intimate, messy, and impossible to ignore. Kiki Banjo thought she outran her past, but one reunion cracks everything open: love, pride, ambition, and the life she’s been carefully constru... thebraidblog.com/2026/01/15/rea…