Clarissa M. Brooks

Black Liberation Activist Assata Shakur, 78, Dies in Cuba After Decades in Exile The Cuban government has announced Assata Shakur died in Havana on Thursday at the age of 78. Shakur was a legendary figure within the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army.

BREAKING: Black Liberation Activist Assata Shakur, 78, Dies in Cuba After Decades in Exile

Never forget obama raising the bounty on Assata Shakur.

Assata Shakur, political activist and ex-Black Liberation Army member, has died Assata Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."

She was 78.

Back on here chile 🫤

a man wearing glasses and a black suit stands in front of a green field ALT: a man wearing glasses and a black suit stands in front of a green field

Yikes! I just had to set a boundary.

A meme of an owl walking, looking determined, which reads: “Getting your dumb daily step count. For your dumb mental health.”

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Vaccination/Immunization is at a tipping point. We have to call our Senators.

[ominously] now the jingle hop has begun

We Live in A Society, Whether You Like It Or Not On the deaths of Jordan Neely, Banko Brown, and Amy St. Pierre.

Daniel Penny was acquitted today.

“Neely was yelling about being hungry and thirsty, saying he was prepared to be jailed – sometimes considered a better alternative to sleeping on the streets – or die, which others, or at least the one who choked him to death, seem to have interpreted as a threat.”

How two trans women ran a legendary underground surgical clinic in a rural barn The neighbours had no idea. The medical equipment came from eBay. But in a dark time for transgender people, these anarchist medics treated patients that no one else would touch, reports Io Dodds

"We [can't be] sitting here looking for, 'oh, please, please give us things!' No, we're going to fucking take them. This is the thing folks don't realize about trans folks: if you make it so that I can't get access to the things I need to survive, I'm going to find a way to do it."

Feeling some Doechii in this after watching her TinyDesk.

Daniel Penny, a white man who placed Jordan Neely in a fatal chokehold on a New York City subway, was acquitted Monday of homicide charges in his death.

"We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay."
- Lynda Barry, WHAT IT IS

I know I’m moving towards something good because I’m having more moments of gratitude and clarity about my peace.

Black Earth — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER In North Carolina, a Black farmer purchased the plantation where his ancestors were enslaved— and is reclaiming his family’s story, his community’s health, and the soil beneath his feet.

A must-read: Patrick Chandler Brown — named after the PCB chemicals dumped in his community — purchased the plantation where his great-grandfather was enslaved and is in the process of transforming it to serve farmers like him

You ever see a woman and want to buy her some land? Feels like a southern urge

Can’t do the clock app this week so l’m here 💕

Chiiiile lemme move back to Georgia right quick

meanwhile, just a few blocks away, Samantha had her sights set on a rich CEO as well

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Amazon Doesn’t Want You to Stream This Gripping New Documentary. This Weekend, You Can. Union won raves and an award at Sundance, but executives have been afraid to make it available. Now it is.

I wrote about UNION, the gripping and much-needed documentary about the Amazon Labor Union, and why it hasn't gotten a distribution deal (spoiler: Bezos has too much money/power). You can stream it on Gathr this weekend and you should! slate.com/culture/2024...

“She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?”

The greatest lie the devil ever told is that norms are the same thing as morals. Norms are contracts, and contracts can be broken by either party. If one party breaks a norm and the other still keeps it, all they are doing is abetting their own abuse under the auspices of certitude.

Telling my kids Knuck If You Buck was a War song

MUSTARDDDDDD #blacksky

Drake said STOP THE COUNT

Drake has initiated legal action against Universal Music Group and Spotify over allegations that the two companies conspired to artificially inflate the popularity of Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us.” In a filing Monday (Nov. 25) in Manhattan court, Drake’s Frozen Moments LLC accused UMG of launching an illegal “scheme” involving bots, payola and other methods to pump up Lamar’s song — a track that savagely attacked Drake amid an ongoing feud between the two stars.

Drake’s attorneys accuse UMG of violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, the federal “RICO” statute often used in criminal cases against organized crime. They also allege deceptive business practices and false advertising under New York state law. The court filings are a remarkable twist in the high-profile beef between the two stars, which saw Drake and Kendrick exchange stinging diss tracks over a period of months earlier this year. That such a dispute would spill into business litigation seemed almost unthinkable in the world of hip-hop.

“Drake has initiated legal action against Universal Music Group and Spotify over allegations that the two companies conspired to artificially inflate the popularity of Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us.’”

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Workers at Charlotte airport, an American Airlines hub, go on strike during Thanksgiving travel week Workers in North Carolina described living paycheck to paycheck, unable to cover expenses like car repairs while performing jobs that keep countless planes running on schedule.

Service workers at the international airport in Charlotte, North Carolina, plan to go on strike during a busy week of Thanksgiving travel

Please welcome—and support—the trans poet librarian @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social who is raising funds for his legal fight for accountability with his employer.