Don Quixote is my favorite book. Superficial readers will tell you it's all about "a dude fighting imaginary dragons", but it's not about that. The book is about the dynamic between realism and idealism and how they need to keep each other in check. Lifting and grounding.

Twinkie Clark. I’m dead serious.

just got sent this instead of happy birthday

Salem’s Lot (1979) 🎬

Reading two long papers for one small reference...

My god…

146 years ago, Ida Overton Walker was born. The Queen of the Cakewalk, she paved the way for acts after her like Josephine Baker and Florence Mills who like her refused to be silenced because of the color of their skin. Walker was one of the most prolific figures of the 20th

We are naming our Honors College in honor of distinguished VSU alumnus, Dr. Charlie W. Hill ’66. This prestigious recognition reflects Dr. Hill’s unwavering commitment to expanding opportunities for generations of students. Read more: vsu.edu/news/2026/vsu-… #GreaterHappensHere

Jill Scott performs “A Long Walk” for her NPR Tiny Desk concert: youtu.be/M5QOaaRJYFc?si…

Always remember that even Black History has many nuances. #BHM2026 A THREAD: Joan Little’s acquittal is a line in the sand in US legal history, not because she was lucky, but because her case demanded recognition of Black women’s right to self-defense. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Litt…

Rev Jesse Jackson playing basketball with Marvin Gaye. (NOT AI!)

My absolute fav part of Brother to Brother (2004). Because the gworls have ALWAYS cruised for trade and got into the pieces thoroughly.

Two icons. 💛 🖤

"Queen of the Night", Babylonian terracotta relief, 1800–1700 BC

That set photo is creepier than any shot in the movie 'Nosferatu' (1922)

Just left a screening in Memphis. All I could think about was that on Baby Suggs line from Beloved…“Not a house in the country ain't packed to its rafters with some dead Negro's grief.”😮‍💨

The icing on the cake was the current owners of Choctaw Hall being outted as racist (the hard er kind) and all the yt folks gagging in the theatre as if yt qweens can’t be as viciously racist as (if not more than) their cishetero counterparts.

Sean Chapman with Clive Barker on set of Hellraiser

The Clark Atlanta University Museum (@cau1988) contains over 11,220 works, representing 900 artists, like Frederick Flemister. His oil painting, “The Mourners,” won the 1942 First Atlanta University Purchase Award for Oil Painting.