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I have mentioned this story in passing but have never written about it. It really isn't relevant to anything but it is my unforgettable brush with celebrity.
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Shopify going down on Cyber Monday has got to be one of the biggest fails of the year
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With all the music history knowledge Questlove has, how does he not take into account that the ONLY reason Tupac chose that beat is because it’s a Junior Mafia/Biggie beat?!? 🤦🏾♂️
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This story is fantastic, but this impression is PHENOMENAL.
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Trying to listen to this Nas…it’s incredibly hard to get past his flow….I really used to love Nas. God bless him for having a long career and going for it tho…
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I was honored to speak with Dr. Haki Madhubuti and Paul Coates for this story.
Coates, who doesn’t do many interviews anymore, thought this story was important. He founded Baltimore’s Black Classic Press in 1978. You may know his son, Ta-Nehisi
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A black woman in Omaha kept coming out to her car covered in garbage on a nightly basis, it happened so often she set up a hidden camera to catch who was doing it.
Turns out it was a cop that was stalking and harassing her.
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Here are 25 highly specific things you've noticed before, but which you didn't know also have very specific names.
Starting with "craquelure" - those fine cracks and lines that appear on old paintings.
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So the FBI spied on and kept nearly 2,000 files on James Baldwin over the course of nearly 20 years. More than any Black artist of the Civil Rights era.
via @bookriot
For one, because of homophobia and racism, his FBI file was nearly 2,000 pages long. ow.ly/caJl50K9w13
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Happy birthday to the great James Baldwin!!! Baldwin has inspired and impacted the lives of so many. We were honored to collaborate with the incomparable scholarship of @retrosoul__ for the "James Baldwin Taught Me" collab. We designed some limited editi… instagr.am/p/CgxD3Uelr6B/
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Today is the 53rd anniversary of the first night of the Stonewall Uprising! Did you know Afeni Shakur - Black Panther leader, community organizer, author, mother of Tupac - was involved in the riots? [THREAD]
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By a show of hands...who will be sticking around once Elon Musk takes over Twitter?
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Pretty fascinating article about artists, like Lauren Halsey, who are using their art and the fine art gallery system as a vehicle to fund community projects in their neighborhood:
artnews.com/art-in-america/f…
via @KeysWalletPh0ne in
@ArtinAmerica
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The original "Redacted" hand dyed hoodie in orange, brown and turquoise is now SOLD!!! Big shout out to trombonist @williamkeatslang!! We're expecting to see this all over the world, as Will is a travelling musician as a member of @loadbangensemble #YourFavoriteAirportHoodie…
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Congratulations to curator Lauren Haynes (@lohaynes33) on her recent appointment as director of curatorial affairs at the Queens Museum!
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A few nights ago, hidden under a cabinet, I found a pile of old letters from an editor in the ‘40s asking white writers to pen something on the “negro problem”
One writer responded: “I’m kinda busy but you should probably ask a few Black writers”
Some dude named Sinclair Lewis
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Chris Wallace Goes At Nikole Hannah-Jones for Claim Greatest Generation 'Violently Suppressed' Black Voters in Heated CNN+ Exchange mediaite.com/a/hszln via @mediaite
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We will be participating in the @artcade.bpt pop up this Saturday at the Arcade Mall in downtown Bridgeport. It will coincide with @wpkn89.5's annual Music Mash for vinyl collectors @Readsartspace !! Come through!!
#Artcade
#MusicMatch
#Musiclovers
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