Marc W. Polite

Author. Award Winning Writer. Poet. Blogger.

Proverbs 3:31

[Seth MacFarlane @SethMacFarlane]

The news of Dolly Parton’s passing is devastating. I had the extraordinary experience of working with her on The Orville, and it was a joy to discover that she really was exactly the person we all hoped she was. Her kindness, generosity, and authenticity were evident from moment one, and the benign yet assured command she maintained over her empire was obvious from the genuine love and trust you could see from everyone who worked for her. The world is a dimmer place today without her.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Dolly Parton, the country singer, songwriter, entertainer and entrepreneur known for her outsize persona and prodigious vision and talent that placed her in a class by herself, has died at 80. https://t.co/8PaJpssLtb

[Donald Peebles Jr. @DonaldJrPeebles]

I always tweeted that if Black people want our own soaps, television shows, etc., then we ought to take free and inexpensive creative writing courses, buy and rent books on creative writing, study playwriting/screenwriting, and CREATE our own stuff since everything is a bitch.

[BET @BET]

8 days. No power. No sleep.

Families in Gary, Indiana are staying up all night to watch over their own homes and cars — in pitch black. The city that's nearly 85% Black, has been left to fend for itself while over 83,000 buildings and homes across Northwest Indiana are STILL without electricity. Some won't see their lights back on until next Tuesday.

Content creators are spreading the news across social platforms including Keith Lee who recently contacted the mayor's office to get supplies to Gary.

Spoiled food. Missed work. Exhausted residents trying to make it through the night, and get back to normal.

Indiana needs help. Click the link in our bio for access to official relief organizations.
🎥: @.aja_ba (Tiktok)

[𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 @andrejgee]

for my @guardian debut, i wrote about how reducing a movement for Black lives to “woke 1.0” or “2.0” is wack as hell for a variety of reasons

[Gary Younge @garyyounge]

"When people talk about the need for Black Excellence I counter with an insistence on Black mediocrity: the right for black people to be as average, flawed, compromised & mistaken as any other group of people. The right, ultimately, to be human." R.I.P. Jason Arday

[Alabama Revolutionary🌹✊🏾 @TerrellLeftist]

The logic behind Defund the Police is not insane, but the slogan itself was politically disastrous.

The problem is that most Americans are not going to read a detailed policy proposal before forming an opinion. They hear “Defund the Police” and understandably assume it means eliminating police departments altogether.

But much of the actual policy was about reducing the responsibilities placed on police and investing more resources into mental health services, social workers, violence prevention, housing, youth programs, and other community services.

That is a legitimate policy debate. The messaging was the problem.

If your slogan requires a paragraph explaining that it does not actually mean what most people think it means when they hear it, then you have already lost a major part of the messaging battle.

[Marc W. Polite @marcpolite]

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing" - George Bernard Shaw

[New York Amsterdam News @NYAmNews]

Longtime AmNews columnist Florence "Flo" Anthony, known for "Go With the Flo," has died at 74.

See more: https://t.co/X4Sm5wjUS0 

#FloAnthony #AmNews

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

I genuinely DO NOT get the endgame. If the plan ends with a ruined planet, collapsed economies, and no working class left to spend money. What are billionaires actually hoarding wealth for? To sit in a bunker with numbers on a screen that don't mean anything anymore? Like what is the actual point? 😭

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Virginia health officials announced the state’s first documented case of locally acquired dengue, saying a resident who had not traveled outside Virginia was probably infected after being bitten by a mosquito that had previously bit an infected traveler. https://t.co/vniEHfL6oc

[Lori Perkins @LoriPerkinsRAB]

Tiger shark caught off Massachusetts could be sign of warming waters
https://t.co/6sa1OiuLSW

[Marc W. Polite @marcpolite]

The scariest article that I read today, is the one about it currently being 90 degrees in the Artic.

[Marc W. Polite @marcpolite]

Meet Marc Polite at Literacy Nation Book Fair in Philly- August 8th! https://t.co/5Aulq0hYHv via @marcpolite

[Marc W. Polite @marcpolite]

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[NY Public Library @nypl]

James Baldwin, groundbreaking Harlem-born writer and activist, was born #OTD in 1924.

Baldwin had a personal connection to two New York Public Library locations: the 135th Street branch (today the @SchomburgCenter) and the landmark 42nd Street library. The former helped shape his young intellectual mind—the latter was an important refuge in his teenage years.

In 2024, to celebrate Baldwin’s centennial, the Library mounted corresponding exhibitions in both of these buildings: 'JIMMY! God’s Black Revolutionary Mouth' at the Schomburg Center and 'James Baldwin: Mountain to Fire,' a special display within the Polonsky Exhibition of The New York Public Library’s Treasures at 42nd Street.

Listen to the audio guide for 'James Baldwin: Mountain to Fire,' hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: https://t.co/QJU2WVhDH4

📷 James Baldwin in Paris, Leslie Schenk, ca. 1949. James Baldwin Photograph Collection, Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. @nyplresearch

[The Root @TheRoot]

Writer and former Black Panther leader Mumia Abu-Jamal — who has been a political prisoner in Pennsylvania for nearly 45 years — is now seeking UN intervention.

On Tuesday, the 72-year-old filed a petition with the UN Human Rights Council’s Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.

[Marc W. Polite @marcpolite]

It never ceases to amaze me.. we have access to all the world's knowledge at our fingertips, and some still willingly choose to be total nincompoops.

[Charles M. Blow @CharlesMBlow]

@nycmayor explains how Black New Yorkers have “borne the brunt” of the city’s cost of living crisis, leading to an exodus of Black families and threatening the integrity of historically Black neighborhoods. Watch the full interview on YouTube. https://t.co/mthu2rohiS

[Marc W. Polite @marcpolite]

Entertainment Review: The Black Mirror Experience for Romance Daily News https://t.co/PxS3NvC58s via @marcpolite