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SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (Simon & Schuster, 2026)
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SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (Simon & Schuster, 2026)
@NewBlackMan
Aggregator of Black Culture. Boosting Blackademia since '99. Feminist. BX-born. Chair, @DukeU's Academic Council. Author #SaveASeatForMe (2022) @BullCitySigmas
I will always love this photo:
- Mother Fletcher, a living survivor of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, turns 109
- Belafonte. Tyson. Fishburne. Poitier. (2012)
- Poitier. Belafonte. Shot by Gordon Parks (1959)
- Costas: "I mean, Elvis was a talented guy." Ray Charles: "Well...okay..." Just showed this in my Michael Jackson and Prince course.
00:00 - Conjuring the Past and Future of Black Music in ‘Sinners’ | Anatomy of a Scene with Ryan Coogler
00:00 - “Abbott Elementary” is careful to avoid the label of “problem students,” and on a show with an all-Black cast of children, that gesture is one of its most moving, Nicole Acheampong writes:
- 'Anonymous members of an anarchist group covered the Hollywood Walk of Fame stars with names of African Americans who have been killed by police.' -- via @washingtonpost
- "D’Angelo, stepping out of the passenger seat, with Bobby Seale, a founder of the Black Panthers, giving him a tour of Oakland, Calif." Credit: Zackary Canepari for The New York Times (2015)
- I thought this was an Onion piece; that this was given a platform speaks volumes about the state of journalism. "I was asked to define woke. My humiliation went viral"
- Solange's Saint Heron Announces Free Digital Library Of Rare Black Literature
- So how long do we carry adult children on our cell phone plan; asking for a friend?
