.IT WAS NEVER GOING TO BE ME has 24 hours to respond!!

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Big same because my heart mourns, too.

Listening to Luther on the drive from Louisville to Wilmington this week had a Black girl singing loud, believing in love, and seeing visions of sweetness. Them lyrics! #luthervandross #lovesongs #feelings #loving tiktok.com/t/ZP817f5nA/

"I'm Trying To Get My Wife Back" Judge Mathis says, It's the worst day of my life, when asked about his wife divorcing him after 39 years of marriage.

Never leave your queen unguarded.

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On (1972) James Jamerson created the best bass lines using just one finger. Let that sink in…

Sonny Rollins was born in New York City on this day in 1930. The Saxophone Colossus turns 94 years old today. 📸 Martin Schoeller #SonnyRollinsBridge

so, funny story: I received a Memphis BBQ chicken pizza from Domino's Pizza with no BBQ sauce. It also has very little chicken. Cheese and onion are beautifully represented tho. No answer at the store before they closed.

“Maze means magic and love. Everybody is in this maze of life together — people of all types, colors and ages.” - Frankie Beverly (Ebony, 1984) Frankie was both magic and love. Rest In Peace to a legend. 🕊️

What’s your all-time favorite song intro? I’ll start: The Temptations - Papa Was A Rolling Stone

🇭🇹 "Haiti has given more to this world than it has received" 🇭🇹 #TheWestHatesHaitiFor1804 #stopAfrophobia #StopAntiBlackHate #StopLyingonHaitians

Learning how to use these alcohol markers. Now that I have a range of colors, it's getting easier to color without reaching for my colored pencils. I'll def continue to use them, but I want to get the hang of markers AND coloring skin. #TikTok #coloring tiktok.com/t/ZP8RxnLPv/

Today we honor the Ancestor, Nat Turner who utilized Spirit (clairvoyance and clairaudience) and the obscurity of the Sun to ‘bash Mister’s head and think about heaven later.’ 🧱 Born today, Oct 2 1800 in Southampton VA, he would become the first enslaved Black person to

“and then Kendrick dropped Meet The Grahams 45 mins after Family Matters“

“Hitler sent a lawyer to the university of Arkansas in the 1930s to figure out how to write the Nuremberg laws” based off of Jim Crow laws…

Been in this "be a better friend," "checking and connecting with past friends" kinda space since 2021 or so, but I feel like a nuisance. That season's likely concluding. I can't fix rifts from beforetimes of sickness, poverty, and distance. Folks have their ppl & that's okay.

Middle and high schools across the country have stopped assigning full books—and by the time students get to college, reading a challenging text can feel overwhelming. Rose Horowitch reports on the college students who can’t read books: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

Yay! Congratulations, Evie! Well-deserved indeed.

Too many folks weren't taught how to sustain and support an argument/position, to recognize logical fallacies, or to clearly articulate their ideas— and it shows. Rhetorical skills in the toilet, critical thought on E, but thinking you ate. Poor thing.