Nocturnal Ned

We distributed 83 grocery bags this morning 🥬🥕🥒🌽🍅 @ New Davonhaime Food Bank @misterace12.bsky.social

i’m taking on a new personal project this month. i’ve just collected a large collection of 35mm film negatives of black american life in the 1970s and 1980s and am going to begin digitizing them into an archive of their own.

i’ll write about my progress here.

I miss Niggalodeon.

my wallet tired even thinking about it

What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly. Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.

I hope you’ll read and share the piece.

stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

Group Art Show Opening
Saturday, MAR 29 6-9pm
5 Eldridge St. NY, NY 10002
At Gloria’s Project Space
Art work: @misterace12.bsky.social

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No Other Land The latest Best Documentary Academy Award winner is a painfully real and objective register of the horrors Palestinians have to endure, and of the unhinged depravity of their oppressors - stream it no...

The Best Documentary Academy Award winner is a painfully real and objective register of the horrors Palestinians have to endure, and of the unhinged depravity of their oppressors

Watch it now (and for free):

dmovies.org/2025/03/06/n...

My latest piece for @teenvogue.com delves into the horrific story of popular skincare ingredient Retin-A.

Before Retin-A was approved by the FDA in 1971, it had been tested on hundreds of incarcerated Black people in Philadelphia, without their informed consent. The survivors still bear the scars.

“Let me clarify. I am 100% correct.” Is a fun way to double down. Especially if you are indeed correct.

Camera tests of new (to me) camera.

I've been writing a series of essays for PBS on men whose style I admire. The latest is about James Baldwin, a man who knew how to sing through clothes.

www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

Cute writer wearing a yellow beanie and black-rimmed glasses holding up a book that she wrote called CINEMA HER WAY: VISIONARY FEMALE DIRECTORS IN THEIR OWN WORDS that has a photo of Michelle Rodriguez in Karyn Kusama's GIRLFIGHT on the cover

MY BOOK IS ON SALE TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

pre-order link and book tour dates here: maryaegates.com/cinemaherway/

A little bit about the book's journey: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/cinema-her...

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Urine

I hate live music

Bills bills bills

Christina is better but Britney is greater

Professor who teaches African American studies here. If your school eliminates or bans it, I will personally host free zoom sessions, provide resources, or answer questions for students, parents/guardians, or teachers who are interested in learning or discussing African American studies.

looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.

Canada might really turn off our electricity y’all.

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I’m so happy for everybody Black that won!!!

hello new and old friends. I am playing a very early (ending 10 pm!) show at elsewhere, nyc, on feb 15. I would love if some cute internet leftists came out. tell your friends, get your tickets here: www.elsewhere.club/events/40654...