I have been loving my Iowa City sojourn, and this morning puts a big exclamation point on that feeling. A new friend cooked and brought me a plate: wine-braised short ribs, mac & cheese, and collard greens. Sis! 🖤🖤🖤

In 1959, Eugene Ionesco wrote the absurdist play Rhinoceros in which one by one, an entire town of people suddenly transform into rhinos. At first, people are horrified but as the contagion spreads, (almost) everyone comes to accept that turning into a rhinoceros is fine. 1/

THREAD "Instead of taking some time to sit with it and ponder how it must feel for poc kids in his heavily white neighborhood, this man became offended. He posted the poem on his heavily white, middle class neighborhood Facebook group so they could also be offended." 😡🤬😤😠

I take issue with this: "As the Swiss historian Frédérique Beauvois points out, the United States was an outlier: It freed people after the Civil War, and granted no compensation to their enslavers."

I always loved this song, and the video, so sweet. Rest in power, Bernard Wright. youtu.be/XT48-LLs0tI

Hey people! There's a virtual symposium honoring Greg Tate's life and work today at 2pm PST. Its just starting.. Here's the registration link Webinar Registration - Zoom stanford.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

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So many feelings... Kudos to playwright Kristin Greenidge, and all who worked 11 years to make this happen. NYTimes: Boston Revisits ‘Common Ground’ and Busing, Onstage Boston Revisits ‘Common Ground’ and Busing, Onstage nyti.ms/3Nc7dIV

Rest in eternal power, Ms. Mary Alice, and thank you for all you gave us with the beauty, integrity and gravitas you put into every role.

I watch TO SLEEP WITH ANGER almost every year to get my Mary Alice-Sheryl Lee Ralph fix. It's time, and time for a Mary Alice tribute series in this house.

Catfish in Black Bean Sauce: Mary Alice, Kiều Chinh, Paul Winfield, George Wallace, Sanaa Lathan, Lauren Tom, directed by Chi Muoi Lo.

Monkeypox has been in Africa for decades. African virologists say this has become a crisis in the West as the world neglected the disease.⁣ ⁣ Here are some key facts from a Nigerian virologist who has studied monkeypox since the 1970s. ⁣ ⁣ Producer: Anna Kook⁣

🥵 i was praying for rain but dang 🤯😱

I would go stand in that, though, for real. I haven't felt rain on my skin in three months.

THIS IS SUCH A THRILL!