Alexa Imani Spencer

ICE arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia student protests, attorney says | CNN Mahmoud Khalil, a prominent Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University’s student protest movement demanding a ceasefire in Gaza, was arrested Saturday night by federal immigration author...

Judge temporarily blocks effort to deport Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia student protests

I realize that writing retreats are all the rage, but I honestly feel that the idea of a baking retreat holds a lot of potential.

Denzel Washington was baptized at Kelly Temple Church of God in Christ in New York City, and received his minister’s license

J. Cole releases two new vinyls for the 10th anniversary of 2014 Forest Hills Drive, featuring alternate covers and four never-before-heard songs from that era. 💿🔥

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

James Baldwin

The dirty little open secret to writing is that no one will ever know, nor care, how many drafts of a thing were written - people will only ever care about the crafted thing, and will, despite all knowledge to the contrary, assume it came out fully formed that way. No one thinks about shit drafts.

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NEGROLAND: A MEMOIR by Margo Jefferson

Yes. And it's spooky. I started off making books out of construction paper and loose leaf in the 3rd grade. Had my classmates read my work and write blurbs on the back. Now: I'm writing books in my Ivy League MFA writing program.

Had to hurdle some nay-sayers, but always had GOD's "yes" + "amen."

I'm now old enough to understand every piece of wisdom my Grandmama gave to me.

All I can do is reflect on our time together with gratitude. I hear her voice play back like a record.

KENDRICK LAMAR

SQUABBLE UP
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OUT NOW 🚨

black and white image of the supremes (diana ross, mary wilson, and florence ballard) with three members of the temptations trailing behind them (melvin franklin and eddie kendricks visible) on an empty london street.

the supremes walking in london with the temptations trailing behind them, 1965

I’m too busy trying to create a beautiful life for myself

Binge-watching LOVECRAFT COUNTRY with vegan chocolate chip cookies. This is music. I hear a song.

GNX | Kendrick Lamar

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Rep. Jasmine Crockett: "There has been no oppression for the white man in this country ... it is white men on this side of the aisle telling us, people of color on this side of the aisle, that y'all are the ones being oppressed."

This New Museum Captures The Heartbeat Of D.C.’s Go-Go Music Scene The highly anticipated Go-Go Museum and Café in D.C.’s historic Anacostia neighborhood held a ribbon-cutting ceremony this week.

I went to the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the new Go-Go Museum and Cafe in DC, which honors go-go’s place in the long lineage of Black liberation music

YouTube video by elfeco Mahalia Jackson--How I got over LIVE

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How I got over? (How I got over)
How I got over? (How I got over)
You know my soul look back and wonder
How I made it over? (Oh yes)

~ Mahalia Jackson

Finally made it over.