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“Black people are often photo-ready. Photo-eager,” Hanif Abdurraqib writes. “We’ve already got fly, we already believe ourselves to be fly: why shouldn’t someone want to take our photo?” In the work of the photographer Andre D. Wagner, the tender intimacy of Black life takes center stage. Some of Wagner’s images show moments of profound, quiet interpersonal intimacy. Others display raucous joy. “We don’t have to be told that we are fly, but it doesn’t hurt to get some confirmation, by way of a camera pointing in our direction,” Abdurraqib continues. See more of Wagner’s photographs: newyorker.com/culture/photo-…
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“I’m old. I’ve paid my home off,” said Ray Warner, a 72-year-old Akron resident. “Why would I pay property tax?”
Across the country, homeowners are asking the same question and revolting against property taxes at a scale not seen in a half century.
politico.com/news/magazine/2…
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Hundreds of thousands of Black men are sitting out elections in Ohio. Almost no one is asking them why. ms.now/news/ohio-black-men-v…
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A former Dallas police officer convicted of killing a Black man in his apartment that she mistook for her own was released on parole after serving seven years of her 10-year sentence.
@OliviaRubinABC has the latest. abcnews.link/FZPzrfY
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I wrote my undergraduate honors thesis on this many moons ago—all 100+ pages of it. My research examined how, despite stimulating economic growth and expanding social welfare, New Deal programs also reinforced existing racial inequities, contributing to enduring disparities in wealth, education, and health outcomes that continue to persist well into the 21st century.
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We are not going to bootstrap our way or marry our way into wealth. Yall dont understand the game been rigged since the new deal.
White people got subsidized and they left black people out in the cold. And we are seeing the effects from it in the net worth update.
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Curtis Flowers, a Black man from Mississippi who was tried six times for the same crime by the same prosecutor before ultimately being wrongfully convicted, has died. He was 56.
Attorney Rob McDuff previously called Flowers' case "unprecedented in the history of the American legal system." cbsn.ws/4jOdVsq
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Sixty years ago, a small group of young Black organizers founded the Black Panther Party on the west coast. But, it was in Chicago that the movement found some of its most enduring work, and voices. abc7chicago.com/post/black-p…
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Students from NC A&T (the largest HBCU) marching back from going to vote. The county closed the polling place on campus. Students marched to town to vote anyway. A&T is where @RevJJackson went to school. His legacy lives on. linkedin.com/posts/todd-simm…
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Forget the narratives and the nonsense. It’s time to rethink everything you thought you knew about Angel Reese.
@seeratsohi: theringer.com/2026/10/16/wnb…
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From @seeratsohi's Ringer article on Angel Reese's impact for the Dream.
I mean...damn.
Forget the narratives and the nonsense. It’s time to rethink everything you thought you knew about Angel Reese.
@seeratsohi: theringer.com/2026/10/16/wnb…
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Sixty years ago, a small group of young Black organizers founded the Black Panther Party on the west coast. But, it was in Chicago that the movement found some of its most enduring work, and voices. abc7chicago.com/post/black-p…
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Black communities and neighborhoods need some offline internal conversations about our trajectory in this country and what the next 25 years will look like.
The median net worth of Black American households declined by 25 percent from 2022 to 2025, according to newly released Federal Reserve data cepr.net/publications/black-…
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Trump’s new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, has been fired, after less than a week on the job, NYT reports nytimes.com/2026/10/16/us/po…
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The median net worth of Black American households declined by 25 percent from 2022 to 2025, according to newly released Federal Reserve data cepr.net/publications/black-…
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That’s why we should all learn cursive! This was easy to read
Angelina Jolie left a handwritten thank you note for hotel staff while filming ‘Maria’ in Greece, and the internet is struggling to figure out what it says.
The note has resurfaced and racked up millions of views, with people trying to decipher every word.
[H/T: lolita]
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The images appear to be AI-upscaled or altered versions of the original note shared by the hotel. The note reads: "Thank you for a restful stay at your beautiful resort. The “Maria” cast had a lovely time here. With love, Angelina Jolie."
greekcitytimes.com/2023/10/25/ang…
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"From IShowSpeed and Barack and Michelle Obama"
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Universal Music Group Hit With Layoffs, Several Top Execs to Leave Company variety.com/2026/music/news/…
