Dr. Thea James has spent years battling the root causes of health disparities in Boston. Her message is finally resonating. trib.al/WQPZcBw

Essential thread. Ventilation does a LOT.

Today on the 3rd day of Eid the NYPD brutalized and arrested me and ripped of my hijab; with no warning. For protesting the genocide in Gaza. They refused to allow me to put my hijab back on. Please don’t post photos of me without my hijab on even if you try to block my hair.

At Église Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris.

Saying goodbye et merci to Caribbean literary giant Maryse Condé. Rest in power.

This is a PRIME example of how blackness is spatially aestheticized in a post-Chocolate City and utilized to create spaces around the cultural specificities of Black Americans and generate capital that benefit people OUTSIDE of the community.

Since Chick-Fil-A is trending, seems like a good time to re-up this thread about their Cop City connections and relationship to U.S. military propaganda.

#StopCopCity

The thing to remember about Orenthal James Simpson is that he consciously crafted himself in opposition to the conscious Black athlete; he was the anti-Jim Brown, the anti-Ali.

'I'm not Black, I'm OJ.'

In one of the proudest moments of my career, I returned home to write about Mary Allen College, the first college for black women in Texas. Please read and if you can, donate to its restoration efforts.

texasmonthly.com/being-texan/ma…

'Getting to a post-Western world will depend in...part on Black men [thinking] through their masculinity and worldsense [apart from]' #whitemalesupremacy
From Confessions From an Educated Fool Substack (Pls read/comment - Thanks!)
donaldearlcollins.substack.com/p/the-fascinat…

So, #OJSimpson 's dead. Well...

Christ they’re so bad. Friend of mine and I were doing joke NYT headlines a couple days ago and I don’t really know how to top this.

Mocking the civilian survivors of a genocide is next level evil. There’s no way to spin this to justify such grotesque and racist dehumanization.

This is what supporting Israel looks like.

#EidMubarak2024 , and #FreePalestine ! That is all.

Eric Adams can’t have it both ways. NYC can’t be the safest big city where crime barely happens AND also need thousands more officers because crime is out of control. He also can’t blame the media for sensationalizing and fearmongering about crime if he’s doing it himself.

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Eid Mubarak to all our Muslim neighbors. I know this Ramadan was difficult as the genocide in Gaza continues. Saving lives and supporting a permanent ceasefire should not be controversial. This Eid, let's be with our loved ones, and continue to raise our voices and speak truth.

April marks 6 months of the Israeli genocide in Palestine, 1 year of the war in Sudan. Over 32,000 killed in Gaza estimates are over 50k killed in Sudan*. Liberation in Palestine + Sudan will require the entire complicit multi-lateral system from the UN to the AU be abolished.

This! The UAE has invested billions in Sudanese land, real estate and infrastructure and knows that a civilian government will reverse all the lucrative deals it has signed to extract Sudanese resources. #KeepEyesOnSudan

That's it? Really?...

BREAKING: Actor Jonathan Majors was sentenced to probation, avoiding jail time for assaulting his ex-girlfriend. apnews.com/article/jonath…