good morning, fam...
Axios is probably right about this. Fun fact about one of the authors of the piece however: His dad was Gary Allen, the OG Alex Jones who wrote the apocalyptic and wildly popular batshit book None Dare Call It Conspiracy.
Happy Ezra Jack Keats Day! The only kind of Snowy Day I want right now.
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I sympathize, and I hope things improve very soon.
I'm sorry that you're seeing that quality of work.
I'm with Webster on this.
we been on mutual aid. that's why I won't accept the clap trap.
congrats to @crystalwilki.bsky.social's memoir with recipes, Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts, having been added to the exhibits at Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History & Culture. 🥰
Hopefully, you'll have the best of both worlds soon: better health along with all of that progress on the novel.
No matter how bad you think colonialism was, it was worse. (And it's not actually over.)
"UK museums hold more than 263,000 items of human remains from around the world, including whole skeletons, preserved bodies, such as Egyptian mummies, skulls, bones, skin, teeth, nails, scalps and hair."
I thought I was a good editor because a bunch of professors in grad school hired me to copyedit or proofread their books, but now that I have worked with a professional proofreader, I am blown away. So, if you need an exceptional proofreader, Melissa Rudder (Rudder Editorial).
Deifying A Total Darkness was available that January but it's official launch was with this March 1, 2020 reading at New York's Zinc Bar. i meant to shout ahit out 5 days ago but forgot.
& GZA was headlining that night at the Blue Note across the street... i almost skipped my own shit.
When I have really depressed or overwhelmed, I found that journaling helped me a lot--just unloading my daily feelings and frustrations was a daily relief. Also, treat yourself--anything you enjoy, from reading, walking outside, a good comedy--you deserve this. Wishing you better days soon.
This is why we want you to be around for a long time. I hope you continue to be on the mend.
senator mullin receiving high praise from.sean o'brien, the teamsters president he nearly came to blows with, seems like the death of any honest labor movement in america because nothing is as partisan as wealth is in this country.
How horrible. I don't know what to say other than my heart goes out to you.
While the US slides deeper into the Dark Ages, the European Medicines Agency has approved a vaccine that protects against both the flu & COVID.
oh no!
Civil Rights activist Bernard Lafayette died today!
He was a Freedom Rider, a member of the Nashville student movement, and helped plan the Selma campaign
I am so sorry for your loss.
Check out Jason Loviglio's new book "Empathy Machines," which looks at the history of NPR, sound, voice, and public media's complex relationship with national ideology.
Despite it all, a happy Miriam Makeba’s birthday to you, via this song that’s been on my rear earworm burner for this entire century.
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"Discover the stories of extraordinary women who helped shape the civil and human rights movements."
#WomensHistoryMonth
One was a math teacher/professor (taught at HBCU's and in the St. Louis Public School system), and one was a farmer in Southern Indiana.
Great review of the Great Prof Mary Helen Washington's new book, *Paule Marshall: A Writer's Life*, @yalepress.bsky.social
13/10 recommend!
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My French word of the day:
Un détroit = a strait
A glance at a map tells why that's Motown's official name.
Keep your eye on the story below. Iran says it's closing the Strait of Hormuz, through which passes a lot of oil that's headed to China.
James Weldon Johnson is such remarkable figure as novelist, poet, diplomat, civil-rights leader, and anthologist. His free-verse sermons in God's Trombones (1927) and his anthology Book of American Negro Poetry (1922; rev. 1931) are really important contributions to Afr-Am poetry of the period.
I met him for the first time in 2023 in Indianapolis at a conference. His father had died earlier that year, and he mentioned to me that he was getting back into art. So the cover may be one of the fruits of his return to visual art.
