As a single mom, the cost of living in D.C. is a constant struggle – and unregulated Airbnbs are making it worse.

Check out my Publishers Weekly author profile of Maxine Gordon’s forthcoming biography of her husband, jazz saxophonist Dexter Gordon, star of the film, Round Midnight. #DexterGordon #RoundMidnight @SophisticatedGiant: publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/au…

I don’t think Trump is some great liar. He’s pathological and prolific, but not great. There is no craft or sophistication to his lying. It’s clumsy and stupid. The problem is that his people WANT to be lied to! He’s saying what they want to hear, true or not.

Philadelphia TV stations stop airing a super PAC's ad tying Democratic congressional Scott Wallace to Democracy Now!, #MumiaAbuJamal bit.ly/2D5uVqE Holly Otterbein

Sad to learn this. Rest in power, Ms. Shange. Ntozake Shange, pioneering playwright, poet and novelist, dies at 70 strib.mn/2qgamiU

Interviews with Ann Cooper, Callie Terrell, and other centenarians encourage Spelman Students to get out to VOTE. Archives of seventeen years of intergenerational bonding focus on The VOTE!

Centenarian Callie Terrell of Memphis, TN tells Spelman students her parents couldn't vote because they were Black. Because they couldn't, she always will!

Check out my Hot House feature on Ellis L Marsalis Jr. at Jazz at Lincoln Center hothousejazz.com/blog/ellis-mar…

Great news @enjoicinglife, Shaun King

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Troubled that I am reading ‘Happy Emancipation Day’ tweets. Maintain a critical and solemn lens to what January 1, 1863 means. Thinking about those people who escaped to freedom at Ft. Monroe (Hampton) in 1861. To be free, labeled contraband. My soul cries.

Modern soul food returns to its roots as first American fusion cuisine bit.ly/2DP0i6T

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It’s once again the first of the month and countless Americans still have no means to pay their bills or make rent. RT if you agree we need to pass my bill to provide Americans with $2,000 monthly payments throughout this pandemic.

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Chadwick Boseman was a proud member of Howard University’s Fine Arts family+a HUGE advocate for the ongoing reestablishment of the College of Fine Arts. Help us celebrate our alumnus by signing the petition to name the College of Fine Arts in his honor❤️💙 chng.it/9m7RCgBcvc

I just subscribed to PRESS RUN pressrun.media/?utm_medium=we… per the recommendation of Soledad O'Brien. Her word is good enough for me.

Daunte Wright’s killing was not a random, disconnected “accident” - it was the repeated outcome of an indefensible system that grants impunity for state violence, rewards it w/ endlessly growing budgets at the cost of community investment, & targets those who question that order.