@cecef.bsky.social
I read, write & research stuff. 1913🔺Bruin🩵💛 Oakland 🤎Thriver in Progress ♥️ #EndCSA #MeToo #SurvivorsAgenda 🌸
So back in the 90s I helped out w/the Young Black Scholars Black History Superbowl in LA & the Black Student Union Black History Knowledge Bowl at Indiana University. Fun. What questions would you include in a Black History Bowl today? Please include recent history. Thanks 🙏🏽
06.12.2025 20:01 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0But did you put on a sweater? Extra blanket? Turn up the heat? Eat some soup? It’s Cali cold out here.🤣
06.12.2025 19:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Spotify has laid off thousands in recent years, while reportedly paying artists $0.003 per stream.
Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads.
Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?
Sending love to every survivor of SA&DV given the Epstein files&the Reckoning docuseries. Please practice self care.
As survivors, we want to bear witness to survivors’ stories&know what it’s like to be met w/disbelief, hostility&silence.We must still take care of ourselves while we stand together.
I really love this version. It gives me a new appreciation for the lyrics.
tidal.com/browse/track...
In my feels…
tidal.com/browse/track...
This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
27.11.2025 17:24 — 👍 22993 🔁 7462 💬 545 📌 270
Mychal smiles in Indigenous purple shirt, holding the book CHOOCH HELPED by Andrea L. Rogers and illustrated by Rebecca Lee Kunz
We raise our library voices to celebrate our Indigenous neighbors 💜
How wonderful to exist alongside Indigenous Peoples! You have always been here, you are still here. Celebrate & support them: their stories, history, community, art, food ✨
Thankful for you, we celebrate you today & every day 🧡
I’m sending love around every heart today. May you be blessed to share w/ a loving family, the one you were born into or the one you chose. May you be blessed to love on yourself. May you be blessed with abundance &all you need &desire. May we all shift closer to love,light, restoration &reparation.
27.11.2025 19:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Black Men Smiling
Day 29/30
“Higher Ground”
by Stevie Wonder
Black Men Smiling
Day 28/30
“Nothing Even Matters”
by Lauren Hill featuring D’Angelo
Black Men Smiling
Day 27/30
“Too Marvelous For Words”
by Billie Holiday
This song right here live! Whew! I’m so glad I’ve seen her live ♥️🎶
tidal.com/browse/track...
Sade is all the feels ♥️
tidal.com/browse/track...
“No one can take it and feel no pain.”
Still in my Sade feels…
tidal.com/browse/track...
Black Men Smiling
Day 26/30
“Joy”
by Teddy Pendergrass
All in my Sade feels…
tidal.com/browse/track...
May this country rise to pay its debt for your service. I likely have ancestors who fought in the Revolutionary War as I have traced family to the 18th century. I recognize the named & those whose names have been lost.
12.11.2025 00:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Gratitude this Veterans’ Day.Promises made & promises should be kept to every Veteran regardless of color, creed, sexual orientation, gender, religion, ability or economic status. My father, great uncle & grandfather, along w/many family members dating to the Civil War, stood up for our country. 1/2
12.11.2025 00:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Instead of funneling endless amounts of money into our bloated Pentagon budget while thousands of veterans face homelessness and hunger, let’s use those funds to truly take care of our veterans — ensuring every one has a home, food, and access to medical and mental health care.
11.11.2025 19:01 — 👍 9196 🔁 2517 💬 308 📌 103
Black Men Smiling
Day 24/30
“Baby Hold on to Me”
by Gerald Levert & Eddie Levert
Unacceptable. There are 189,000 people in my district who will be paying 50–300% more for the same, and in many cases worse, healthcare.
I won’t do that to the people I represent. I’m a NO on this “deal.”
Black Men Smiling Happy Birthday edition
22/30
“Rock the Boat”
by The Hues Corporation
Black Men Smiling
Day 21/30
“The Root”
by D’Angelo
Black Men Smiling
Day 20/30
“Everyday People”
The Staple Singers
Black Men Smiling
Day 19/30
“Keep On Movin’”
by Soul II Soul
Black Men Smiling
Day 18/30
“Whole New Thing”
by Billy Preston
Black Men Smiling
Day 17
“Travelin’
Miles Caton
Black Men Smiling
Day 16/30
“What A Wonderful World”
by Louis Armstrong
