Timothy Welbeck

I’ve been saying for months this outcome was inevitable.

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Many thanks to Mickey Factz for visiting my class on Kendrick Lamar at Temple University (“Kendrick Lamar and the Morale of the m.A.A.d city”).

We discussed his career, the Blog Era, collaborating with Kendrick, and what makes Kendrick such a compelling writer. We even got a bar breakdown.

Thanks so much. That was a time.

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I need to do better about sharing on here. I was on the latest episode of @msolurin.bsky.social’s #OlayandFriends. Y’all should give it a listen.

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The Invention of “Sesame Street” Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.

“Sesame Street” and its sequel, “The Electric Company,” were, “with lapses, the most intelligent and important programs in television,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.

ICE Agents Invade a Manhattan Little League Field Youman Wilder has coached local kids for twenty-one years—including four who have gone pro. When masked agents tried to interrogate his players, he told them, “You don’t have more rights than they do....

When ICE agents questioned a group of 11- to 14-year-olds who’d just finished batting practice, their coach, Youman Wilder, stepped in. “I’m willing to die to make sure these kids can get home,” he recounted afterward.

There’s an old country adage that says you can boil a live frog in a pot on the stove so long as you gradually increase the temperature, because it will not perceive the inherent danger of the incrementally increasing heat.

The water is now boiling. Let the reader understand.

No predictive model could foresee this degree of national self-sabotage - an act of willful decline that transcends political theory.

This how I know black folk and white folk live in different realities. Because I coulda told you in my teens that some people in this country have so much hate in their hearts that they’d burn this country to the ground just to be rulers over ashes, if it meant people they don’t like get hurt more.

What is birthright citizenship and what happens after the Supreme Court ruling? Within two hours of a Supreme Court ruling that limits the ability of federal courts to impose universal injunctions, lawyers for immigrant rights groups filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of their clients.

Within two hours of a Supreme Court ruling that limits the ability of federal courts to impose universal injunctions, lawyers for immigrant rights groups filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of their clients.

Temple University’s New Course Examines Kendrick Lamar’s Life, Influence, and Musical Legacy Temple University has a new course that will explore Kendrick Lamar’s life and music in relation to the state of Black culture.

Thanks @blackenterprise.bsky.social.

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Temple University Professor To Teach A Course On Kendrick Lamar - AfroTech

I appreciate the love.

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Temple University launches Kendrick Lamar course on culture, legacy, and lyrics The course, titled “Kendrick Lamar and the Morale of M.A.A.D. city,” will be offered during the Fall 2025 semester.

Thank you for this coverage @thegrio.bsky.social.

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Temple professor breaks down Kendrick Lamar’s legacy in new university course The course will explore the rapper’s life, lyrics and impact through an Afrocentric lens, connecting hip-hop to broader themes of race, culture and urban America.

@whyy.org recently published a story about my forthcoming Kendrick Lamar course. You may read it below.

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Thanks so much.

What’s the right way to mark Juneteenth? The newest U.S. holiday is confusing Americans • Louisiana Illuminator Four years after President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, Americans have wrestled with what to make of the holiday.

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What is Juneteenth? What is the proper way to celebrate it? In many ways, the United States’ newest federal holiday has quickly become its most puzzling one. I talk about this in my latest article for @theconversation.com.

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In all seriousness, with all this talk about #HarrietTubman, I’d highly recommend Dr. Erica Armstrong Dunbar’s #SheCametoSlay. Y’all need that in your life.

Black Women Plan & Prepare Period. And yeah we knew and told y’all!

truth tellers are punished most when they are early, not wrong.

There's an easy fix for this.

Start a nationwide project using AI to identify the people snarling in the background of all those old civil rights photos.

Problem solved.

My favorite muppet with the sage wisdom.

I advise all my family, friends, and clients never to speak to law enforcement without an attorney present. The 5th and 6th Amendments exist for a reason.

Do with that what you will.

I’m late to the party, but was elated to arrive nonetheless. What a well deserved honor.

Happy #MothersDay Mom. I thank God for you, your love, your nurturing, and your patience. It shaped me into the man I am today.

Happy Mother’s Day my love. What a great joy it is for our children to call you Mom.

‘James’ wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction Everett’s novel was honored at the 2025 awards, along with other books in the categories of fiction, general nonfiction, memoir, poetry, history and biography.

You see this?

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Yesterday, we celebrated the beautiful lives and legacy of Kwasi and Elizabeth Agbottah.

I thank God for placing such a treasure in the earth.

It is beautiful to see their legacies alive and well in their five children. As his eldest said, we must finish what they started. We will.