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Vintage Black Excellence: Toni Morrison on the importance of leaning into the “discredited ways of knowing” that the ancestors left behind. Listen, and be transformed.

JI am going to EDS at Union's Just Conversation with Kelly Brown Douglas | Ashon Crawley & Dante Stewart! Care to join me? Visit ssl.charityweb.net/eds/event/craw…

No one should have to live this way. I’ve only had to run once from gunfire while shopping. This should not be normal!

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Always enriching and enjoyable. instagram.com/p/CpjV5TVAuJl/…

It is with an extremely heavy heart that we have to report that Jacqueline "Cookie" Hamer Flakes passed away today. She was 56. Jackie was the last living child of Pap and Fannie Lou Hamer.

Author Talk: Say Their Names - DC Public Library DMV, turn out for my return home book event with my co-authors. April15@3 pm. Click and register. But come even if you don’t register. See ya soon. dclibrary.libnet.info/event/8229980

Hear from the authors of "Say Their Names," a thought-provoking title about the forces that pushed our unjust system to its breaking point. 🗓️Saturday, Apr. 15, 3 p.m. 📍MLK Library 📚First 50 Registrants Get a FREE Copy Courtesy of DC Public Library Foundation (DCPLF) dclibrary.libnet.info/event/8229980

Yes, it's Earth Day, but also the day Charles Mingus was born. And there is a relationship...Thankful he came to earth and left his music behind. charlesmingus.com/blog/today-we-….

#RockHall2023 about. damn. time.💥🥳🎉

Patrice Gaines’ writing about the 8th & H case illuminated the injustices that 8 #wrongfullyconvicted young men suffered and led to MAIP’s involvement. We are proud to present Patrice Gaines with the Defender of Innocence award at our 2023 Luncheon. exonerate.org/14th-annual-aw…

I’m about to go on WPFW FM 89.3 FM in DC. Streaming on your computer, 9-10 am, “What’s At Stake.” Real talk about justice, including two innocent men incarcerated for decades and Jason Flom of the podcast “Wrongful Conviction.”

“Sometimes you don’t survive whole. You just survive in part. But the grandeur of life is that attempt.” —Toni Morrison

📅 Revisit the 1984 DC murder case of Catherine Fuller & the ensuing convictions of 8 young Black men. 🗣️: Author Tom Dybdahl, New America's Shannon Lynch, journalist Patrice Gaines, and 6 of the accused men. 📍 7/30 @ 6p, Busboys and Poets Hyattsville bit.ly/3riJgdz

The Alley podcast focuses on the mishandling of the 1984 8th & H case, in which Chris Turner and seven other innocent Black men were #wrongfullyconvicted of murder. Listen to Episode 2 here: open.spotify.com/episode/7v5LoQ…

"When innocent people are worn down by the interrogation process, they cave to their interrogators... But they also believe the legal system will reveal the truth in the end. They have faith in that system that, too often, is betrayed." ow.ly/7IvP50Pr4HH

A must watch. fb.watch/mc4qkG5aFH/?mi…

#DYK: SCOTUS only accepts ~2% of cases sent to them each year? Decades later, the Catherine Fuller murder case is reopened—thanks to a dogged reporter (Patrice Gaines), the Innocence Project (@midatlanticip), & a team of expert lawyers. 🎧 #TheAlleyPod newamerica.org/the-alley/epis…

I am going to be interviewed tomorrow at 10 a.m. on Washington’s #Jazz and #Justice station WPFW89.3 to talk about my 40-year literary career and what it has meant to keep writing this long. I will be in discussion with my good friends Patrice Gaines and Wil Haygood.