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[NBA on ESPN @ESPNNBA]

Mood:

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

There’s a rainbow outside the Kennedy Center right now as a crowd awaits Trump’s name to be pulled off the arts venue

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

A federal judge just ordered the Trump admin to reinstall exhibits and signs relating to slavery ​and climate change that it ⁠had removed from ​parks and monuments nationwide https://t.co/pJHc9dGTCF

[apollotheater @ApolloTheater]

Last night, Harlem shined bright‼️ We officially relit our iconic marquee marking the first major public milestone in the institution’s relaunch of our famed theater restoring a symbol that has welcomed generations of artists and audiences to 125th Street.

[GQ Magazine @GQMagazine]

Exclusive: Mayor Zohran Mamdani is launching a limited run of affordable NYC-inspired World Cup jerseys, designed and crafted in partnership with Mazzi Sports, a family-owned apparel studio in Brooklyn. https://t.co/UVeWm3J4JG

[CHUCK INGLISH said it. @Chuckisdope]

You really one of them ones fam.

[ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports]

Cast of Laocoön and his Sons (Roman version of a lost Greek original), 100BC-50AD

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

SPEECHLESS. LFGK.

[ESPN @espn]

OmG.

[SNY Knicks @sny_knicks]

THE GREATEST COMEBACK IN NBA FINALS HISTORY.

THE KNICKS LEAD THE NBA FINALS 3-1!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[NEW YORK KNICKS @nyknicks]

KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN.

[Rum Cake* @NzingaSays]

WOW WTF

[Fashioning the Self in Slavery and Freedom @FashioningSelf]

Last week, I spent several days at the @SchomburgCenter, going through photographs of James Baldwin as part of my work as a consultant for a forthcoming exhibition curated by the phenomenal Karen Van Godtsenhoven.

One of the highlights was this snapshot of Baldwin and Toni Morrison in Saint-Paul-de-Vence. Unlike the carefully staged portraits that helped construct Baldwin's public image, this photograph feels deeply personal. It wasn't made for publication. It looks like the kind of photograph that might have been processed at a local drugstore and tucked into a family album.

Here are two of the most important American writers of the twentieth century, not performing literary celebrity, but simply enjoying one another's company. There is something wonderfully ordinary about it.

As I think through Baldwin's self-fashioning, this photograph reminds me that public intellectuals are not made through ideas alone. Their lives are sustained by friendships, intellectual communities, chosen families, and private moments of joy. Sometimes a casual photo can reveal more than a professional headshot.

[Rum Cake* @NzingaSays]

Gossiping with my mom on my lunch break >>>

[gianni @GianChiani06]

public libraries by Jacob Lawrence (September 7, 1917 – June 9, 2000)

[ella devi @ellad3vi]

telfar store in nyc is all decked out in knicks colors

[Jordan @SLCLunk]

It’s such a perfect metaphor to have something that gives joy to tens of thousands get ruined by one Republican billionaire asshole

[New York Basketball @NBA_NewYork]

Happy 80th birthday New York Knicks 🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂

On this day in 1946 Madison Square Garden was granted a pro basketball franchise

[Shea Serrano @SheaSerrano]

i need all my new york homies to boo this motherfucker so thunderously when they show him on the jumbotron that my TV vibrates off the wall

[Slightly Rational Knicks Fan @RationalKnickFn]

Orange and Blue from the skies #NewYorkKnicks