TONI Branson

Filmmaker & Fashion Designer - Owner of @StyleIsFreedom 📧 Business Inquires: [email protected]

[TONI Branson @TOMBOI301]

Love can catch you anywhere 💕
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[TONI Branson @TOMBOI301]

@NYCMayor you’re doing amazing work. Please add this to the list!!

[TONI Branson @TOMBOI301]

@NYCMayor off peak hours cleaning and perhaps creating more city jobs for this specifically and work to live spaces for folks who need help and employment. They are main candidates to be apart of this effort.

This is important and you need to make it a point to focus on it #NYC

[TONI Branson @TOMBOI301]

@NYCMayor not all neighborhoods are treated equally and there should be more of a priority to make the city clean. Scrubbing sidewalks, picking up trash, cutting the grass and weeds especially on sidewalks where they have verge gardens filled with garbage and unkept weeds

[TONI Branson @TOMBOI301]

@NYCMayor can you please prioritize making NYC the CLEANEST CITY IN THE WORLD we deserve to have a clean city.

More city jobs & overnight cleaning in ALL NEIGHBORHOODS #NYC

[TONI Branson @TOMBOI301]

@NYCMayor MAKE NYC THE CLEANEST CITY IN THE WORLD!!! #WeCanDoThis #LetsGetItDone #NYC 🗽

[TONI Branson @TOMBOI301]

@NYCMayor Empower the people. Create more city jobs. It’s constantly piles of garbage on the streets. Grass on the sidewalks not being kept up with weeds everywhere. The city parks need more workers too. This should be a city wide initiative and effort

[TONI Branson @TOMBOI301]

@NYCMayor we really need to address the lack of cleanliness in our city. The fact that NYC is constantly filthy is ridiculous. There needs to be a plan in place to make NYC THE CLEANEST CITY IN THE WORLD!

Create more city jobs. Have more overnight shifts for cleaning #NYC

[Black, Blessed & Unbothered @MelanatedTalk]

When young Black men swim.
These young kings did the damn thing. Just when they thought we couldn’t swim! 😄 WATCH THIS…
Congratulations to them! Black excellence on display.
#BlackYouth
#SwimMeet
#Swimmers
#BlackExcellence
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[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

Director Christopher Nolan brought 60 Minutes to Fotokem in Burbank, California, to watch their artists assemble and color correct final release prints of “The Odyssey.” It's the only motion picture film lab in the world that still produces 70 millimeter prints.

Nolan told Scott Pelley, “It’s a really marvelous thing to see… in this age of digitization, AI, all the rest, this is a human process. An analog process.”

[Ken Burns @KenBurns]

Tonight @PBSAmerMasters premieres the new film by Rita Coburn about the life and work of the great W.E.B. Du Bois. Hope you have a chance to watch: https://t.co/tyV46KdsPY

[BET @BET]

1989. The night a legend was crowned the King of Pop.

Rare archival footage of Michael Jackson at the 3rd Annual Soul Train Music Awards accepting the Heritage Award, presented by Elizabeth Taylor and Eddie Murphy.

Elizabeth Taylor introduced Michael as the King of Pop, Rock & Soul and the title stuck for decades to come.

That night, he took home 4 awards:
• The Sammy Davis Jr. Award for Entertainer of the Year
• The Heritage Award for Career Achievement
• Best R&B/Urban Contemporary Single, Male (“Man in the Mirror”)
• Best R&B/Urban Contemporary Music Video (“Man in the Mirror”)

Michael walked away with multiple wins but more importantly: he left with a title that would outlive every single era.

Humble. Untouchable. Legendary. 👑

[TONI Branson @TOMBOI301]

@Kurrco 🔥🔥🔥YEEZY YEEZY HOW YA DO IT HUH 🔥🔥🔥

[AKW @allkanyewest]

Ye performing Can’t Tell Me Nothing like this at 48 years old is CRAZY.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Gout Gout was at Ipswich Grammar School to play soccer. He had never trained as a sprinter. He was twelve years old, wearing sand shoes, and somebody told him to line up for a race at the school carnival.

The kid next to him was wearing spikes. He had won nationals.

Gout left him in the dust.

His classmate Tyson Walker was in the race too. "Everyone there stopped and watched," Walker recalled. "We had GPS athletics the next week and he broke every record and just didn't stop. He's just kept going faster."

A coach named Di Sheppard saw him run that day. She told him he could be an Olympic medalist. He later said it was the first time anyone had ever told him anything like that. He was twelve. He joined her squad and started training twice a week.

Here is where the story gets strange.

At 14 he ran 10.57 in the 100m, the fastest ever by an Australian under 16. At 15 he broke the national U18 200m record. At 16 he clocked 10.04 in a heat, then 10.17 legal in the final, then woke up the next morning and ran 20.04 in the 200m, breaking Peter Norman's Australian record from the 1968 Olympics. That record had stood for 56 years. Usain Bolt saw the footage, posted a photo, and wrote "He looks like young me."

The Bolt comparison is worth sitting with. Bolt didn't race 100 meters professionally until he was 21. His first professional 100m was 10.03. Gout Gout ran 10.00 flat at 18.

And his coach still only puts him in the gym two days a week. She's managing the fact that his body is still growing. The power phase of his development hasn't started. He is running these times on stride length and raw top-end speed alone.

His parents are Dinka, from South Sudan. They fled to Egypt, then to Australia, two years before he was born. Third of seven children. The family name was misspelled during transliteration from Arabic. It was supposed to be Guot. His father has been trying to change it back because "gout" is a disease name.

The kid kept running.

Brisbane 2032. Home Olympics. He'll be 24, the same age Bolt was when he set the 100m world record in Berlin. Adidas already signed him through that year.

The fastest man in Australian history started in sand shoes at a school carnival. Nobody told him to stop.

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

NEW: American Nathan Martin wins the closest Los Angeles Marathon in race history, beating Kenya’s Michael Kimani Kamau by just 00.01 seconds.

Martin was seen chasing down Kamau at the end of the race.

“I made an actual move five miles out… when I saw no one else was picking up the pace. I decided I needed to push,” the 36-year-old said.

“At a mile and a half to go, I could see the leader and with 800 meters to go, I was thinking, ‘I’m catching him.’”

Martin finished the race with a time of 2 hours, 11 minutes, 16.50 seconds.

[Cornbread Mafioso 🖕🏾 @Soulful1865]

REAL AMERICAN HISTORY 🇺🇸💯✌🏾

[TheCompany™️©️ @The_Real_Yay]

This scene from Tyler Perry’s Joes College road trip is hitting home for most Black Americans ✊🏾🖤🇺🇸💯

[FEИTY @guxfenty]

Rihanna gravando ‘bbhmm’ em 2015. Voz crua, límpida, sem filtros e sem autotune.

[Ben Phillips @benphillips76]

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

Before rock ‘n’ roll had a name, Sister Rosetta Tharpe was already playing it—‘Didn’t It Rain’ is proof.