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With all that is happening in the world, and that I know I am purposed to do as a writer, I am taking @MichaelaCoel advice from her Emmy speech. I have disappeared, but I am not gone. I will see you after the silence speaks. - TAP
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I'm back home from @FuriousFlowerPC brimming with love and imagination, astounded by what Black poetry has made possible and can help make possible still. A free Palestine *is* possible. A free Congo *is* possible. A free Sudan *is* possible. We have worlds to make real.
URGENT: @USAmbUN, the decision to cut humanitarian funding to @UNRWA is causing immense suffering among Palestinian refugees and exacerbating the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Reinstate UNRWA funding and call for a PERMANENT CEASEFIRE now! #FundUNRWA
URGENT: @State_IO, the decision to cut humanitarian funding to @UNRWA is causing immense suffering among Palestinian refugees and exacerbating the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Reinstate UNRWA funding and call for a PERMANENT CEASEFIRE now! #FundUNRWA
URGENT: @PowerUSAid, the decision to cut humanitarian funding to @UNRWA is causing immense suffering among Palestinian refugees and exacerbating the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Reinstate UNRWA funding and call for a PERMANENT CEASEFIRE now! #FundUNRWA
URGENT: @SecBlinken, the decision to cut humanitarian funding to @UNRWA is causing immense suffering among Palestinian refugees and exacerbating the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Reinstate UNRWA funding and call for a PERMANENT CEASEFIRE now! #FundUNRWA
Fully on board with this reading of scripture and faith.
I don’t know who this man is but protect him at all costs!! He finally broke it down. So much she had no come back! See the God yall worshipping is yourself and your opinions!! I love how he use the word, the one she claims to know in his argument! Sadly they still won’t get it. Y’all think we judging you but it’s by the measure you are judging is what’s happening! And she claim to want to help the students but didn’t want to ask the parents for permission to do it. Where do these women get the audacity? You can’t control our kids!! Please everyone repost this!!
I am watching an old season of Top Chef. Does anyone do work on reality TV cooking competitions and nationalism?
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Full academic boycott of Israel for the destruction of Palestinian universities, including in this video, the bombing of the University of Palestine. All academics, worldwide, must condemn this and join the boycott of Israeli cultural institutions. #BDS
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I love me some Niecy. Always have and always will.
Niecy Nash-Betts is finally an Emmy winner after 5 nominations and she gave one of the best speeches in #Emmys history!
"I wanna thank me for believing in me!"
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Israeli bulldozers are intentionally destroying cemeteries in Gaza and exhuming dead bodies as a result.
I don’t even have a word for what kind of mind is behind the intentional desecration of the dead. This is not about your safety. This is about your indoctrinated hatred.
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The laughter at the one minute mark, my god.
.@chrislhayes: “There is no terrorist attack, no matter how horrific—and truly Oct. 7 was horrific—that can wash clean what we are seeing in Gaza and what we as Americans and our government are abetting. It must end. We must stop it.”
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So many university academics who insist upon doing performative, virtue signaling “land acknowledgements” at every public event are eerily silent as real liberation struggles are happening. Guess decolonization really is a metaphor for some folk…
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Over here working on a short essay and cracking up at this Sterling Brown line: “you’ve got to distinguish between a personality and a mind.” Lord knows, that’s the WHOLE truth. – at Charlottesville, VA