Morgan Jerkins

Every now and then I think about how the world is the way it is because a handful of our billionaires desperately want to be cool.

Ghana’s President Calls Slave Trade ‘Greatest Crime,’ Pushes U.N. for Reparations For Black Americans, the motion — backed by a coalition of world leaders — intensifies calls to confront slavery’s enduring costs.

In a first coordinated African-led effort at the United Nations, leaders have declared the Transatlantic Slave Trade as “the greatest crime against humanity” and called for reparations.

When Imogen Heap sang that "there's beauty in the breakdown," I cannot tell you how many times that single line has healed me over and over again throughout my life.

The judge who granted this restraining order was appointed to the bench by Trump.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Federal judge temporarily blocks the Trump administration from deploying the National Guard in Portland, Oregon.

Oh shit y'all. I didn't have cold brew coffee. I had cold brew concentrate.

Oh Lord...

Ok it's working too well. Now I'm praise dancing to Cam'ron in my living room.

We are a very unserious people.

LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!SNSNSNSNSNSJMSJKSJSKNSNS

LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh I am writing that one down.

I do not identify as a coffee drinker per se but sometimes I'm too much of a sleepy girl.

I am trying a new brand of cold brew coffee and IDK how much I poured in my mug.

But what I do know is that this shit better work.

I’m reading reports about what has happened to Greta Thunberg and I…don’t know what to say at this point.

I’m worried that even worse than what her comrades has reported has transpired.

And I will leave it at that.

It calmed our nervous systems!

Society really started to go downhill when The Weather Channel stopped playing jazz.

A saxophone playing while announcing an evening storm.

Mm.

What a precipitous decline.

OMG I would love it!

Oh yay I just got a video suggestion called "Every Dinosaur Period Explained in 10 minutes."

I'm going to bring up cannabis again but it really goes without saying that as soon as the edible hits, if you put on a documentary about the wooly mammoth or the megalodon, you will be RIVETED.

I have had a weird interest in watching documentaries on prehistoric times for months now and I'm sorry, I can't wrap my head around the meteor.

I know it happened but what?

I'm not saying that I 100% believe that all of the birds died and that the birds we see are spies that are working for the bourgeoisie.

BUT!

I ain't seen no pigeons in the Upper East Side.

I don't remember lots of birds in Brooklyn Heights.

Just saying!

I know someone has good gossip when I have to take off my glasses and clean 'em so I can hear better.

And furthermore, when it comes to Black horror, we can go right into music:

There is a direct lineage between Robert Johnson's 1937 song "Crossroad" to Bone Thugs-N-Harmony's 1996 song "Tha Crossroads."

It's really striking, if you ask me.

I can't watch a lot of the videos because I get spooked too easily but the amount of spooky cultural ethnography that's circulating has me all starry-eyed.

Since we're in spooky season, I want to talk about how there's a whole category of Black people from certain neighborhoods that are known for being redlined and neglected and these people are talking about supernatural occurrences where they lived.

"Candyman" and Cabrini Green isn't the only link!

"You should be more grateful."

I will send you a photo of a hippo's ass.

He could’ve saved a lot of words by just going with “uppity” like he wanted to say

Benson Boone is definitely a Trump-era star.

His name sounds like a euphemism for moonshine made in the backwoods of North Carolina somewhere.

Live Updates: Sean Combs Sentenced to More Than Four Years in Prison The hip-hop mogul was sentenced after apologizing for his “disgusting, shameful and sick” conduct and his lawyers showed the court a video highlighting his charitable works.

Breaking News: Sean Combs was sentenced to more than four years in prison for prostitution-related crimes.

Journalist Plestia Alaqad Is Publishing Her Diaries From Gaza: "A Dystopian World" "Every time I read it, I just feel disbelief — is this real? Did I really live that? Are there still thousands of people in Gaza living that?”

Plestia Alaqad’s new book features her diary entries reporting on the ground in Gaza for 45 days after October 7. after a hospital is bombed on day 10, she uses the word genocide.

2 years later—as the UN has finally called it one—she says, “turns out, that's only the beginning.” @teenvogue.com

I am tired of this, grandpa.