Dan Freeman 2025

Hope you are ok!!

The speed at which universities and institutions are abandoning diversity, equity, inclusion and anti-racism initiatives merely confirms one thing:

they were never serious to begin with - it was all performative!

Praying for North St Louis

Caught another writer using AI & they were promptly let go.

I can not stress this enough: Any editor worth anything can AND WILL catch you if you're using AI to write. It's not slick, it's not subtle, & so many behavioral patterns beyond the writing are dead giveaways.

Do the work or get out.

Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library? An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.

Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not.

An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.

No one warns you about the grief in cleaning out a loved one’s home. The photos you forgot, the cards still smelling like them, the quiet weight of decades in your hands. It’s not just stuff. It’s their life and familial history echoing through yours, one drawer, one letter, one memory at a time.

Because the less you know, the easier you are to control

Google Calendar removed events like Pride and BHM because its holiday list wasn’t ‘sustainable’ Some users are angry that some events have been removed.

Google has just removed Pride Month and Black History Month from the calendar app.

This comes as they obeyed Trump by changing the Gulf of Mexico’s name to “Gulf of America.”
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I'm here!!

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.

I know. I was there in those camps.

Civil rights attorney, former Miss Kansas contestant killed in plane crash near DC airport As families and communities identify victims in Wednesday night’s plane crash near Washington, D.C., we’re learning that a well-known civil rights attorney and former Miss Kansas contestant is among t...

Kiah was set to join our faculty at Howard Law School in the Fall. She was a dedicated, brilliant civil rights lawyer poised to make a powerful difference in our world.

Our hearts are broken & we pray for her family & friends.

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People are about to learn just how many programs, departments, events, roles, etc for Black and brown folks were federally funded (and in some cases federally protected). All the Black ppl who always ask "what have the dems even done for us" are about to get the most dramatic answer possible.

On Thursdays we call our Grandmother! 🤗✨

Been trying to get in more of a habit. The first week I was like wtf we gon talk about, lmaoooo homegirl can TALK! We were on the phone for Three hours!!! Lol she walked me through her vacation step by step 😂😂😂💚💚

To never attempt is a failure in and of itself.

I let a bad experience ruin my confidence and self-esteem, so I never think that who I am and what I do is ever enough.

A healthy mixture of both

What a fool believes….

Single cover of "Optimistic" by August Green (Common, Karriem Riggins, and Robert Glasper) featuring Brandy. It features a young Black boy with his fist up, wearing a red mask, cape, and arm buckle with blue accents and white stars on it.

The single cover for Sy Smith & DominiqueXavier's "Feeling Good" has their smiling faces cut out and superimposed atop a colorful design that fill-in the blocky letters, but reveal a textured paper background.

My Happy New Year playlist comes right out of August Greene & Brandy's "Optimistic" into Sy Smith & DominiqueXavier's "Feeling Good." My feels are sparkling right now. ☀️🎉❤️

Hey hey hey!

“They had no choice.”

This is a work of art! I said "well, DAMN!" about 73 times!!

🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐

Boy oh boy did the MAGA cult shut up about stolen elections after they succeeded at stealing this one.

SSSSSSSSSSUUUUUU!

YouTube video by Glasshaus Bilal: Live at Glasshaus | Full Film 4K | feat. Questlove, Common, Robert Glasper, Burniss Travis

Oh snap. I'm about to dive into this documentary on Bilal. He's the very first person I ever interviewed as a brand new freelancer, and he's also one of the most GIFTED voices of the last 3 decades.

The whole thing is on YT.

So a reminder:

It’s not ‘liberals’ saying Hegseth abuses women. It’s his mom.

It’s not ‘liberals’ comparing Trump to Hitler. It’s his vice-president.

It’s not ‘liberals’ calling Musk a liar and a racist. It’s his own child.

For the record.

And early pioneers of intellectual property via the music industry

If House Republicans really wanted to protect women, they'd release the Ethics Committee report on Matt Gaetz' alleged sex trafficking - not try to ban their colleagues from using the bathroom. Stop the bigotry and release the report.