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.. and then disguise it as art so the feds back up. contributing editor ✍🏿 / @friezeofficial & @Tate_Publishing / [email protected]

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South London yutes came thru in the dozens today. #WarInnaBabylon
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Emma Mae [a.k.a. Black Sister's Revenge] (1976) is a brilliant film made by the late Jamaa Fanaka. Shot on location in Watts, California, and with a cast of mostly non-professional actors; this film is a great example of vivid and independent filmmaking in the 1970s.
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reading a chapter of hartman’s wayward lives and it’s beautifully written with really generative insights and theoretical suppositions, but i’m like not really convinced by critical fabulation as a methodology here tbh
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I wrote about Once Upon a Time in Harlem's striking reflection of cultural debate that today's social media era has made nearly impossible to replicate. My latest for @Salon: salon.com/2026/10/19/what-on…

The lost art of Black cultural debate

"Once Upon a Time in Harlem" offers a powerful reminder of the value of thoughtful disagreement.

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Get me out of this place.... The UK is so oppressive ... My God!!
Politics UK
@PolitlcsUKOct 15
🚨 NEW: The Government is planning to extend the licence fee to online platforms such as Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon
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“If you were a slave and I were your master, and the only way for you to be free was to strike a blow to kill me, what would you do?”
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tangential to this, an essay I’ve been wanting to revisit recently
w.e.b dubiracial@mattdj00Oct 11
i need to explore in greater depth the contemporary black “creative” culture. and i mean the conscious choice to name oneself a “creative” in its most general sense. that always accompanies some kind of ambiguous/arbitrary, yet dogmatic, link to “Culture”
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RJP retweeted
Dr. CBS
@drcbs_Sep 30
Let’s see how many Black Studies PhDs they actually have at a conference about the future of Black Studies. And since I’m on fellowship at the Schomburg I’ll be sure to bring this up in person :)
pjlo@BlackCatrachoBKSep 29
Schomburg Center to Hold Next Century of Black Studies Conference, Nov 16–18, 2026 nypl.org/blog/2026/09/29/sch…

Schomburg Center to Hold Next Century of Black Studies Conference, Nov 16–18, 2026 | The New York...

Three days of dynamic content including roundtable conversations, hands-on workshops, short presentations, plenaries, and more.

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She’s not wrong 1636 - all Africans imported to Barbados enslaved for life 1661 - Barbados slave code, first one ever 1685 - enslaved Africans & indentured Irish planned joint revolt. British found out and started tweaking so 1688 - brand new slave code
Jam Radio UK News
@Jam_RadioUKSep 20
Prime Minster Mia Mottley told a delegation gathered in Barbados this weekend for the CARICOM reparations conference "We became that first modern experiment in Racism" Mottley says she will appoint a technical committee of historians and economist to quantify reparations
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In 1688 Barbados banned drums because the colonizers realized the enslaved were using drums to talk and organize, particularly in the 1675 Cuffee rebellion. This explains how they would have communicated quickly islabdwide
GHANA FACTS & HISTORY@GhanaianMuseumSep 17
Rare 1967 footage showing how traditional drums in Ghana were used to send messages over short and long distances, and even perform traditional poetry.
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I ended up finding a site that has all of the photographer’s books plparchive.com/duggan-cronin… this pic is in this one, page 92. crazy how OP provided a source and they still called it AI. so i decided to find a second source lol
African crowns@afrocrownsSep 12
1935 - Haircut of a Tsonga boy from an area near Xai-Xai pd. Mozambique
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The Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice's Carceral State Reading Group at Brown University. "The Architects of Abolitionism: George Jackson, Angela Davis, and the Deradicalization of Prison Struggles," a lecture and conversation with Joy James (2019)
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You’re unlikely to see a better documentary this year

Once Upon a Time in Harlem - Official Trailer - In Theaters October 16

Siddhant Adlakha@SiddhantAdlakhaJan 28
The best film of #Sundance2026 was shot in 1972. In “Once Upon a Time In Harlem,” the late documentarian William Greaves gathers Harlem Renaissance luminaries for an afternoon debate, preserving history as intimate memory. Invigorating cinema. observer.com/2026/01/sundanc…

Screening at Sundance: David Greaves’s ‘Once Upon A Time In Harlem’

After more than 50 years, the documentary filmmaker’s son brings his father’s greatest feat to stunning completion

observer.com
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This is a great paper for anyone who is interested in exploring Walter Rodney's work in Jamaica prior to him being banned there. omowalebooks.wordpress.com/2…

The Rodney Riots

The decision of the Jamaican government to ban Walter Rodney from returning to Jamaica set off rioting throughout the island. This incident was one of the many important indigents in Walter Rodney&…

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Anyway please read Harry Haywood “Black Bolshevik” like that’s legit required reading
𝓝𝓲𝓴𝓴𝓲 𝓑𝓪𝓻𝓷𝓮𝓼
@NikkiBarnesAug 29
Replying to @blaqueerflow
There is no such thing as Black socialism or Black Marxism. Those are the “isms” y’all adopt to be accepted by white people. The only “ism” that Black people know and navigate in the South is RACISM. That’s how we know you’re not US.
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Dr. Marxism, PhD
@apostrophebeatsAug 29
post a life changing book 👆
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Grateful
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In 1900, Black librarian Daniel Murray began a bibliography of works by Black Americans, his goal “to secure every book and pamphlet in existence, by a Negro Author”, exhibit them at the 1900 Paris Exposition, and then archive them at @LibraryCongress: publicdomainreview.org/colle…
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CALLING ALL DIASPORA 📣🌍 I created Afro-Creole Languages Week (Sept 1st–8th) a space dedicated to celebrating the languages WE created, and I would love for you all to be there! ✨ Free online sessions EVERY SINGLE DAY . Save your spot below 👇🏾 forms.gle/oUHhPmgWmQwiYqU27
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We will never miss a next Carnival We will never miss a good Bacchanal We go make a Mas' for the festival We go tear it down in the Savannah… Where the vibes ever good and we in the mood Put yuh hands them high and shout it to the sky You's a West Indian 🕺🏾🇩🇲🕺🏾
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