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Graphic of a photo cutout of W.E.B. DuBois above the text: W.E.B. DuBois - Sociologist, Writer, Historian, and Pan-Africanist Civil Rights Activist - "The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression."

W.E.B. Du Bois was a scholar, activist, and co-founder of the NAACP who advanced a bold vision for civil rights. He argued for higher education, political participation, and direct challenges to inequality. This #BlackHistoryMonth, we honor his intellectual leadership and lasting influence.

Brandi Carlile's accompaniment for "America the Beautiful" before the game last night was SistaStrings. The duo, Chauntee and Monique Ross, played another American anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," on the Library's Stradivarius instruments in 2024.
Here's a clip of that impromptu performance. ⬇️

Bad Bunny’s performance began in the plantation, featured broken electric poles, and ended by centering a hemispheric understanding of “América”—among many other things—and some Anglo journalists are like “his performance wasn’t political.”

This is why we need to be telling our stories.

never turned it on to begin with 🤘

2026 goal is practicing speaking this South to North list of all American countries exactly how Bad Bunny speaks it 🤤🐰

Crying rewatching Bad Bunny’s Halftime Show, it’s so beautiful y happy y colorful y joyful inspirational educational Art, I’m so grateful for it 🖼️🎭💃🪘🪇🥹

Thank you to everyone who worked on this show, the fashion the dancing the beats the iconography wow what a gift!

¡¡Muchas gracias Artistas!!

Screenshot of genius.com lyrics Bawitdaba Lyrics [Intro] Bawitdaba, da-bang, da-bang, diggy-diggy-diggy Said the boogie, said up drop the boogie Bawitdaba, da-bang, da-bang, diggy-diggy-diggy Said the boogie, said up jump the boogie Bawitdaba, da-bang, da-bang, diggy-diggy-diggy

Waaaa I don't speak Spanish waaa I'm gonna watch the show with words I can understand

The words:

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Good artists want context, and correctness. Specificity breeds art.

It’s choices made from the wealth of experience that other people’s art makes . It also gives people belief in their worth

It’s why cultural studies are the first to go / be redone

And it matters no matter who does it

gracias Bad Bunny 🩵❤️🤍 y thank you Seahawks 💙💚 we the people needed these boosts

ICONIC 🌎 God Bless The Americas

So many people in tree costumes, standing in rows

We absolutely must give it up for the tree people

DtMF cover

Another great detail, the chairs echo the cover of his latest album

These chairs are so commonly seen all over the island

The fact that they're empty represents all the people who have been forced to leave their homes because of gentrification and other problems

Ricky martin's sitting on a white plastic chair in front of some bananas

We ALL know that's Ricky Martin singing in front of the bananas

He's singing "Lo Que Le Pasó a Hawaii," an anti-statehood song that holds up Hawaii as a cautionary tale (as already established, Benito is pro independence)

🤩❕🌴❕🌴❕🌴❕omg whut 🤑

Peep the LIGHT BLUE Puerto Rican flag in the window

The flag with the light blue triangle represents the Puerto Rican independence movement

For many years it was illegal to display on the island

(Lots more light blue flags forthcoming in this performance)

Bad Bunny being carried by a crowd in front of a bodega

He jumps off the wedding platform and now we're at a NYC bodega

The Puerto Rican diaspora in New York and elsewhere is a major focus of his recent work

People who have been forced to leave their home and start over elsewhere

A kid napping on a football on some chivari chairs

Hahaha this is amazing

He goes over to wake up a kid sleeping on some chairs

There's always a kid sleeping in the corner at a real wedding

The details!!!!

THE FORBIDDEN DANCE MOVES

what a 👑 damn 👏

Benito on the casita roof

PERREO on the big screen I'm crying

💅💃🍑🔌🇵🇷🇺🇸🐰💥

Girls throwing ass in front of the casita

And now it's time for some goddamn PERREO

A musician playing a guitar in sugarcane that is somehow in the middle of a football field

First shot: sugarcane

The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times

Still used to make rum of course!

🏈👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩

🙏 good news

he was in Wedding Crashers lol

🇵🇱🏆🥟 this is what the olympics is all about

MY PEOPLE 😭

We 💜 you, Mapquest! HBD 🎂 Such fond memories growing up together xoxo