Damon Jones

done watching basketball …

Ahh, yes, that familiar feeling …

my chest …

My blood pressure …

Ladé on X: "Coogi Sweaters: Brief History (Thread) https://t.co/BsLuJxYQ3Q" / X Coogi Sweaters: Brief History (Thread) https://t.co/BsLuJxYQ3Q

This was helpful: x.com/ladeplatinum...

Maybe I stand corrected:

But I still contend that Big elevated the status of Coogi …

Ok I’m seeing some archival pics …

I remember all of those items, but not Coogi, maybe I was too broke …

That is true!

I’m thinking Biggie put them on the map, that was late ‘94 - ‘95 …not ‘92, right?

Yeah, he made it pop, but he wasn’t known until late ‘94-‘95… not ‘92 right?

One nitpick: I don’t know if Coogi was poppin’ like that in ‘92

OMG SINNERS …

They don’t want race used
taught, or studied in higher Ed, or K12, AND are upset that a Smithsonian museum claims that race is a social construct and not a biological trait 🤔

So universities cannot take race into account, but then … 🤔

Defend the liberty of a stranger as you would defend your own, or that of a loved one, because that is what's actually on the table—whether we are a society that will sit still as our neighbors are snatched in the night, and disappeared into darkness, or a society that will fight for each other.

Court Temporarily Halts Columbia Activist’s Deportation The Palestinian Columbia graduate was nabbed by ICE, sparking outrage that his due process and First Amendment rights had been violated.

A judge said Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia graduate whose arrest by ICE sparked outrage, couldn't be deported without a court order.

Now hold on just a minute:

They are doing so much destruction down there, across the board …

Mayor Baraka Joins United Way Of Greater Newark To Launch Volunteer Income Tax (Vita) Program To Help Residents Claim Tax Credits

My kind of carrying on …

Funk You Up - Long Version Sequence · The Sugar Hill Records Story · Song · 2009

Did not know this was Angie Stone … foundational hip hop … RIP:

open.spotify.com/track/1Q0oJ2...

LFG!!! 😍

Eve L. Ewing examines how the education system is designed to hurt Black and Indigenous students • The TRiiBE Chicago author Eve Ewing invites readers to critically think about the origins of the American education system in her newest book.

Chicago native Eve L. Ewing’s new book, ‘Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism,’ drops today.

Check out our interview with her.

thetriibe.com/2025/02/eve-...

Israeli police raid Jerusalem bookshops and arrest Palestinian owners Raid on Educational Bookshop branches described by rights groups as part of harassment campaign against Palestinian intellectuals

Arrested for selling books … Owners of East Jerusalem’s Educational Bookshop arrested and their store ransacked …

“Police said they had seized eight books and needed time to investigate further, including reading the books.”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Come join us 👇🏾

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Context for the speech:

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