Nobes

[Roper Williams @Roper_Williams]

can’t believe Umi Says is a real song

[Dustin Fitzharris @TheDustinFitz]

Today in 1983, “Reading Rainbow,” starring LeVar Burton, premiered.

[✨ Remstack High Priestess ✨ @bisexualterror]

my traumatized, angry as fuck, daddy-killing, “kill or die for my twin” babies

[Nobes @Nobimas]

Extraordinary. Challenging, beautiful… you have to sit quietly when it’s over and recalibrate. It takes up so much space.

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

Aleshea Harris, Kara Young, Sterling K. Brown, Mallori Johnson, Xavier Mills, Justen Ross and Janelle Monáe on the set of ‘IS GOD IS’ 📸

Today is your last chance to catch the film in theaters

[Blackish Press @blackishpress]

Tierra Whack announces the cover art of her upcoming mixtape ‘WHACK'S MUSEUM’

Coming on June 19th.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

The capitalist obsession with rapid growth at all costs is literally the function of cancer cells.

[c ⁂quioa @ccequioa]

Dance Theatre of Harlem, 1977

[shea @sheanorling]

what should happen:
- studios promote young new directors
- smaller budgets
- less CGI, AI
- real movies produced with care, made by real people

what will happen:
- inde navarette funko pop
- OBSESSION cinematic universe

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

The internet used to be full of websites; there were millions of them and you could browse for hours and come away smarter rather than dumber. Now there are four sites and they've made half the population illiterate. We've destroyed a wonderful thing, and it has destroyed us.

[David Friend @DavidMFriend1]

Sonny Rollins wrote a new essay about jazz. Today, VF published it, exclusively—a day after his death, at 95–along w/Steve Schapiro’s photos, from his new book, JAZZ. @sonnyrollins @SchapiroPhoto #jazz #jazzphotography #sonnyrollins
https://t.co/nOoM3yKGkj

[Shannon @shannonpurser]

every super famous director should have to do one movie every couple years with an indie budget to see if they still got it

[Sonny Rollins @sonnyrollins]

It is with deep sorrow and profound love that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins. The Saxophone Colossus died this afternoon at his home in Woodstock, NY at the age of 95. 1/2 https://t.co/6AGmFrB7x4

[Film Crave @_filmcrave]

Happy 40th Birthday to Ryan Coogler!

[garlic wife @garlic_wife]

i soak my beans and cook my rice but my health insurance is still $1,000 a month

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

Trump looting almost $2 billion from the government coffers to pay his supporters is one of the largest scandals in US history.

But our press is so beaten down and the public has become so fatigued by his constant criminality that it's barely a news story.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Many of them didn't. Your great-great-grandmother was probably drinking opium for her nerves, sold at the corner shop as cheap as a pint of beer. It was called laudanum, a mix of opium and alcohol that doctors handed out for anxiety, sleeplessness, and "women's troubles." Mothers fed it to crying babies. The babies often stopped crying because they stopped breathing.

The men drank. By 1830 the average American was putting away almost two bottles of liquor a week. Whiskey cost less than coffee or milk. People started their day with a shot and ended it with another. Toddlers drank from their parents' rum mugs.

ADHD has a long paper trail. A Scottish doctor described kids who couldn't focus in 1798. By 1846 there was a popular German children's book about a boy called Fidgety Philipp who couldn't sit still. In 1902, a London children's doctor named George Still wrote a famous paper on the same kids and called it a "defect of moral control." Same kid, three different centuries.

Depression and anxiety had old names too. Melancholia, hysteria, the vapors. Treatments included bloodletting, ice baths, and chaining people to a wall. By 1937, American mental hospitals held 451,672 patients and took up more than half of every hospital bed in the country. Inside the walls, about 1 in 10 patients died each year.

Then came the lobotomy. Between 1949 and 1952, around 50,000 Americans were strapped to a chair while a doctor hammered an ice pick through the thin bone above their eye and wiggled it around inside their brain. It took about ten minutes. Sixty percent of the patients were women. About 1 in 20 died from the procedure. Many of the ones who lived came out with no personality left. The man who invented the procedure won a Nobel Prize.

Britain's male suicide rate hit 30.3 per 100,000 in 1905. The lowest rates ever recorded in British history are happening right now.

Plenty of our ancestors didn't make it. They drank themselves dead. They overdosed on shop-bought opium. They got locked in asylums and never came out. They had picks driven through their eye sockets. They killed themselves in numbers we don't see today. The conditions were always there. The treatments just used to be worse than the disease.

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

Brian Tyree Henry joins the cast of ‘THE BATMAN’ sequel, director Matt Reeves reveals.

[amelia elizalde @ameliaelizalde]

i love the "its inevitable so why fight it" argument coming from rich older women who spend a lot of time and money fighting another supposedly inevitable thing

[Black Media Hub ✊🏿 @BlackMediaHub]

On this day in 1994 , Crooklyn, directed by Spike Lee, premiered.