Most mainstream hip hop is not “for the culture”. It’s a prison/prostitution prep course It teaches recklessness in a country that severely punishes recklessness Shade Room shared this & eats off destructive/degenerate behavior Bet they start building more women’s prisons

that time Nikki Giovanni gagged James Baldwin…

In 1996, Pedro Moreno was arrested for conspiracy to distribute marijuana and commit money laundering. Now, he's serving life in a California prison less than five miles away from a dispensary. motherjones.com/criminal-justi…

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.

"We should not be giving Black people the same vaccine schedule that's given to Whites, because their immune system is better than ours." ---RFK Jr. So what vaccine schedule should I have received? His answer was dangerous. I will be voting no.

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

Ten years ago, not a single ship that sank in the Middle Passage had ever been identified; the watery cradle of the African diaspora was an archeological void. A global network of maritime archeologists is working to change that. nyer.cm/5OKC1oU

Titanic (1997)

Thank you, Neville Chamberlin.

My illustration on preeclampsia, a pregnancy condition characterized by high blood pressure and signs of organ stress, usually occurring after 20 weeks. Awareness and early detection can help prevent preeclampsia. #preeclampsia #maternalhealth #blackmaternalhealth

Little guy absolutely crushes it, and his dad can’t help but jump in too!♥️

those white South Africans are getting sent to El Salvador

“Are you guys illegal? You don’t belong here”

I was shocked and saddened to learn earlier this week that GBH, a pioneering producer of public media in the U.S., has paused American Experience, the longest-running and most-watched historical documentary series on American television, and laid off its staff and leadership.

Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre on Ghislaine Maxwell: “She is a monster. She’s worse than Epstein. She was vicious. She was evil. I know that woman.”

Epstein survivor Sarah Ransome on Ghislaine Maxwell: “She had no remorse. Ghislaine has no soul. She’s a dangerous human being. She will reoffend, reoffend and reoffend. These people never stop. Ever.”

Live Updates: After a Weak Jobs Report, Trump Fires That Agency’s Commissioner nytimes.com/live/2025/07/3…

Tired of waiting for the city, Angelenos paint their own crosswalks. Some become permanent. latimes.com/california/sto…

Blackstone didn't buy 274,000 homes to be landlords. They spent $1 trillion turning homeownership into subscription housing. They are creating a generation that will own nothing and rent everything. While families dream of white picket fences, Wall Street dreams of permanent

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