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This Hit Series Wasn’t Created for Black Fans. We Made It Our Own Anyway. Our long and complicated relationship with the late Akira Toriyama’s Dragon Ball.

Akira Toriyama died two years ago today. When he passed, I explained how Black American fans of Dragon Ball reinterpreted the series into a contemporary pillar of our culture.

I loved writing this essay, and I hope you enjoy it, too. Piccolo is wearing a wave cap.

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None of us are running for Senate. I actually do expect people running for Senate to display a modicum of judgement in their public communications.

Here’s Delroy himself addressing the BAFTA incident at the Image Awards. I’m so glad he and Sinners team feel celebrated and properly centered 🥹

#NAACPImageAwards

This is the most important thing on the internet rn 🤣😭

I do actually think there is a serious imbalance on this app. A lot of politics and not enough culture. Some of that has to do with the fact that Black Twitter mostly went to Threads.

It's either this or astrology is right and his favorable Jupiter placement is to blame.

Or both. 🤷🏾‍♀️

Trump Tells Iranians to ‘Take Over’ Their Government. But How?

"President Trump’s ambiguous appeal comes after he undermined U.S.-funded media outlets that normally would have helped the administration reach people inside the country.": www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...

Jayme Lawson has the one-two punch of being pretty af and also being a high brow ACK-taur. Which means you can throw her in your mainstream popcorn flicks to elevate them and also pop her into Oscar bait. You see the arms, right? Baby Angela.

Shit is so dope

These joints be having me in a full nelson! 🤣

I m just focused on the fact Al Green has been escorted from the SOTU twice

And he called for impeachment LAST GOD DAMN YEAR

imagine if we had coalesced behind a Black elder then

Maybe if a whole bunch of folks didn’t think Black people weren’t performing apes we wouldn’t be in this bullshit

Remember, Barack Obama had a deal with Iran over their Nuclear program.

Donald Trump ripped it up.

Not because it was a bad deal. Because he wanted to erase everything Barack Obama did, and put his name on it instead.

He ripped it up, and then replaced it with nothing...except bombs.

And this is why we should make it illegal for media companies to be owned or controlled by single individuals or small groups. Once a media corporation hits a certain size it should start a countdown clock until it must be supermajority owned by public shareholders, employees or subscribers.

People really struggling with the idea that the Iranian government sucks but we shouldn't be bombing them can both be true, eh?

If you've grown up having to deal with the weirdest and most unsettling of church goers (often white and republican, lets not mince words) you know how true this is. Christian Nationalism is just that mind bending and dangerous. Its basically no different from a turbo cult but now they have power

"Trump is the peace candidate, unlike Harris" is quite possibly the most disproven statement in recent American history.

Hell, "vote against Harris if you want peace in the Middle East and Central Asia" is even more so.

We had, under Obama, a perfectly good agreement w/ Iran, but Trump burned that one up, and now he will kill 1,000s of people, lying to the world all the while that it has something to do with Iran.

It, in reality, is about Trump, Bibi, and Putin needing wars to distract the homeland.

Henrietta Lacks is the reason we dont get polio anymore.

Henrietta Lacks is the reason in-vitro works

Henrietta Lacks is the reason there's an HPV vaccine, gene mapping, we know how cancer cells divide, AIDs is no longer a death sentence.

Henrietta Lacks cells were stolen from her

From 2020

Buddy, I am touching ALL the grass today.

Now this? This is exactly what the Iraq War was like under Bush. Years of gaslighting.

It's very evident a lot of people - and I can't even say just white ppl any more - learned the wrong lessons from the civil rights movement. Black elders didn't march with Rev. King because he was their designated leader and told them to show up, he became a leader because HE showed up.

This expectation that political parties or politicians must organize and lead protests is very new and odd. Politics does not work like this anywhere and it shouldn't. You think the French wait for Macron to tell them to protest?

PSA:

People bitching about war who didn't vote Harris/Walz

SHUT THE FUCK UP

We won't be seeing much of a reaction until this goes fully off the rails. Which could be tomorrow or could be never. Trump could declare "Mission Accomplished" tonight and pick this up again in October.

There are a lot of millennials on here who are expecting this to be seen the same way war with Iraq was seen by the mid/late 00s - an action loudly condemned across the globe. Below explains why they may be waiting for a while.

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy