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Blessed and highly favored

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨LOCK THEM UP: Rep. Robert Garcia says Oversight Democrats have documented “over 1,000 credible and verified” abuses led by Donald Trump and Stephen Miller.

His message to Miller: “Lawyer Up.”

[juanita may 🤎🎀 @juanitamay1998]

Itohan Barlow (founder of Culture Lab Africa) shared a throwback to hosting Olandria during her trip to Lagos for Rolling Stone Africa. including Nike Art Gallery for Mama Nike’s 90th birthday, and birthday celebration for Olandria at Slow Lagos.

[BrownSugar @JuicyAtl]

@AlgorithmCrazy @InternetReels Sounds about white

[internet is real @InternetReels]

Black Man Was Awarded $325,000 After White Cop Arrested Him for Carrying a Golf Club as a Cane

[Belle femme noire 🇺🇸 FBA B1! @WiseSkillfulOne]

🤔 Let's say that we go with the African narrative. It still will not improve the image of Africans.

This lady left no meat...

[Harinuwa 🎀 @Hariinuwa]

Olandria helping a customer who ran a homeless shelter. She got her workplace to give easter baskets to the women and kids 🎀🎀

[MY NAME IS MY NAME 🇺🇸🪮 @ctreid89]

Black American 90s hair ritual

[Incnèma @Nemamaae]

Olandria speaking on the friendships she’s maintained and how they’ve shown up for each other long before fame 🥹 I love that she’s stayed close to those who held her down through the good and bad, and still be surrounded by the same love she had before the world knew her name

[juanita may 🤎🎀 @juanitamay1998]

she’s so pretty

[Blackish Press @blackishpress]

Olandria Carthen on refusing to be defined by her starting point:

“People always say like, How could she be a good representation? Look what show she came off of. Let me stop you right there. Hello. It's not how you start, it's how you finish, first of all.

And I know it's weird, because I'm like, my platform came to me in the form of a silly dating show. But it's what I did after the show that what matters. I took my platform, I'm promoting education. I'm trying to be the best representation I can be in the media for us Black women.

And I'm not saying I'm the only representation, but I am one of the few. People are always try to limit you because where you started, where they met you at. And people will always try to remind you of where you came from. I don't need that. I know where I came from and I'm very grateful for it. But this is where I'm at now and this is what we're going to talk about now.”

Her words cut through a common trap: the tendency to freeze people at the moment they first entered the public eye.

A reality dating show is rarely framed as a launching pad for substance, yet Carthen has treated it exactly that way. As a Tuskegee University graduate and first-generation college graduate, she has consistently redirected attention toward higher education, HBCUs, and intentional representation for Black women- particularly dark-skinned Black women who have historically seen limited positive visibility in mainstream media.

This is not reinvention for its own sake; it is strategic ownership of narrative. She acknowledges the origin of the platform without being confined by it, and she insists the relevant conversation is the one she is choosing to lead now. That distinction matters. It models a growth-oriented approach that prioritizes impact over origin story and refuses external attempts to reduce complex people to their most convenient labels.

In a media landscape quick to assign permanent boxes, Carthen’s stance is a clear reminder: starting points can open doors, but they do not dictate the direction or the destination. The work after the introduction is what ultimately defines the contribution.

[k a r y. @itsKARY_]

LMFAO Y’ALL PLEASE LISTEN TO THIS STORY.

This is literally insane 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[🎀✨B̶A̶I̶L̶E̶Y̶I̶S̶A̶N̶N̶O̶𝐔Y̶E̶D̶✨🎀 @eddiesasscheek]

Ola so funny😭😭 #throwback https://t.co/Spklrsgaa5

[Masu Zafi 🔥🔥 @masuzafi]

🔥 Rep. Joyce Beatty just shut it down.
She refused to let Trump’s Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent waste her time with filibustering.
“No, no, no we’re not doing that with me.”

Straight answers or move on. No games. No evasion.
When politicians actually use their time to demand accountability instead of theater… that’s how oversight is supposed to work.

Power move. 💪

Who else is tired of the scripted dodges in these hearings?

[Suze♡ @suzepierre4]

The majority of them have more sympathy for people who use racial slurs, abusers, and scammers than for a woman who represents them, simply because she has become more successful than the woman they thought would make it.

[Arie🖤🎀 @Amarie841299]

Starting a collection of Olandria’s best red carpet walking pics because this woman knows how to work a carpet. drop your faves dolls 🎀

[EM @EXECUTIVEXMEDIA]

This is why Trump lost

[JTB {Smote} Soulaan❤️🔱🖤 @JTBlackstone]

🚨FBA Newz⚠️2 Black American Elder sister's unalived in Ghana 🇬🇭 over Land dispute 🤔They have unalived several FBA women who have move there Black Americans.

[Nic + Ola Updates @nicolandriainfo]

📲 Olandria via IG story!