These are my teammates. We are Olympic champions. Three of us tried to give birth. Two of us experienced near-death complications. One of us died. We have to, and we will do more. Tori’s death cannot and will not be in vain. time.com/6287392/tori-b…

“As long as racism, sexism, homophobia, patriarchy, class oppression, and colonial domination persist, our critical analyses will always be considered criminal.” nybooks.com/online/2023/06…

#Windrush75 - 'So many stories, woven together like stands of a coconut coaster....So hard to pick out a strand and say, this is the main one, the important one that holds all the others together.' ~ from my own Windrush novel. Cover art: Habitation by Dawn Scott

On Emancipation Day listen to Erna Brodber's Lecture "After the Looking Glass: Blackspace and Emancipation" youtube.com/watch?v=XwAiUA…

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Had the chance to write about Toni Cade Bambara’s and Gloria Naylor’s turn to independent cinema and some of their unrealized film projects that offer radical insights for our moment. Hope this piece invites you to revisit their work 💛 oxfordamerican.org/magazine/issue…

"The #SayHerName campaign was launched to fill in the blanks about police violence against Black women as a necessary step in changing the reality of police violence against Black women. In order to do so, the campaign centers survivors." -- Kimberlé Crenshaw inquest.org/do-you-know-th…]

Full funding for doctorala studies in Caribbean foodways at Warwick Univetsity. warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/histo…

Why is Ireland the most outspoken pro-Palestinian nation in the Western world? Why is South Africa the most outspoken pro-Palestinian nation in the whole world? It's not coincidence

A brave guy with a good heart.

Banjos brought by Africans, observed throughout #Caribbean in 17th Century. First recorded c1687 in #Jamaica. Recent controversy over Beyoncé making “Country” music needs a reminder of where most modern styles originated. music.si.edu/spotlight/banj….

Please submit! I look forward to reading your work.

Today, we lost greatly. We lost a revolutionary. The only consolation is that an emancipatory charge toward utopia is paved with defeat and loss. And that Elleni knew too well that this dialectic nourishes the immortality of revolutions 1/2

A visionary playwright, novelist, and cultural leader. She was at the forefront of almost everything, doing things before other people even thought of them. Beautiful Black & Queer SHAY YOUNGBLOOD 1959-2024

MoonShine Darling She’s also done a podcast interview: benfranklinsworld.com/episode-293-ch…

Today is July 20, 2024, the start of the first chapter of Octavia Butler’s #ParableOfTheSower Happy Parable Day.

I want to be in Nambia. How can anyone listen to this man and think “yeah, he’s my guy?”

Today is national Mango Day 🥭

so very excited to join this fabulous cast at Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival in September! caribbeanlife.com/faces-of-the-c…