Kingsley

naturally curious about the world and the many intersections that shape our realities

[Vernon Equinox ✨💚 @AfroJediii]

Atlantics is the GOAT

& Neptune Frost is rare collaborative film of the diaspora fr. one co-director + lead writer who’s African American and the other co-director + cinematographer who’s Rwandan + local Rwandan cast & crew of “non-professional”/non-career artists & workers

[Boris Cherny @bcherny]

I'm Boris and I created Claude Code. I wanted to quickly share a few tips for using Claude Code, sourced directly from the Claude Code team. The way the team uses Claude is different than how I use it. Remember: there is no one right way to use Claude Code -- everyones' setup is different. You should experiment to see what works for you!

[Kingsley @TrackKingg]

The House of Representatives just passed Donald Trump’s megabill……

[highFashion @rahman_jago_]

A secret to happiness is letting every situation be what it is instead of what you think it should be, and then making the best of it.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

“It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I'd been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the Earth as though I had a right to be here." —James Baldwin

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

More than 8000 black women in Mississippi and S. Carolina were given involuntary hysterectomies (removal of uterus) between 1920s and 80s when they went to see white doctors for other complaints.

These came to be known as ‘MISSISSIPPI APPENDECTOMIES’

—A THREAD—

[African Hub @AfricanHub_]

USA AFRICOM once confessed that they have been training Africans to overthrow their own governments

Your thoughts on this

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

Mississippi permanently deleted entire race relations & gender studies research databases to comply with anti-DEI laws. This isn’t just censorship—it’s defunding the truth. Libraries can’t serve communities when knowledge is under attack. https://t.co/JbzQMXYBPZ

[Your Emotional Healing Coach @AfsaRosette]

Lauryn Hill once said, “Everybody wants to know where you’re going to, ’cause they wanna come or so they think , until they find the cost of it. Until they find out what you lost for it.” If that ain’t the truth. Ppl romanticise your becoming, but couldn’t stomach your unbecoming

[📚pedagogy in black✊🏾 @RenyTure]

One study goes as far to argue that Black boys face a particular form of “Double Jeopardy” and makes it clear that racial inequality in school discipline isn’t only caused by individual teacher bias but it’s also shaped by the overall school environment. Personal biases and the larger school culture create a system where students of color, particularly Black and Latino boys, are punished more harshly for the exact same behaviors.

[Kingsley @TrackKingg]

This is a very well broken down thread and worth the read

[📚pedagogy in black✊🏾 @RenyTure]

Recent discussions about Black male college matriculation have shifted the focus onto individual choices rather than systemic barriers. Instead of asking, ‘Why aren’t Black men choosing to attend college?’ the more accurate question is, ‘What socioeconomic and political forces have stripped these opportunities away from Black men?

[COCO @TWOTIMESABITCH]

i saw a post today that said, “when you finally learn your place in people's lives, your feelings won't get hurt” and i swear that's the truth and one of the most important life lesson you will learn. whether it's family, friends, or whoever

[Josh @JoshuaOgundu]

If you’re a self sufficient man financially and domestically the “benefit” of marriage is still there but it makes you more selective on who you do that with

Most marriages happen because someone can’t stand on their own two in some fashion, don’t let that be yours

[schway lex. @Lexual__]

Everybody should study history. It gives you a proper foundation to view the world pragmatically. You’ll consider other perspectives before speaking or jumping to conclusions and you’ll rarely be surprised or sucked in by sensationalist rhetoric.

[Charrise Lane @CharriseJLane]

Not many black people in sight, but some how, the media still wants to convince us that DEI helped black people on such a large scale.

DEI does NOT= Black

[Kingsley @TrackKingg]

@leah198082 Thank you

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

The first and only black-owned automobile in history was the Patterson-Greenfield Automobile Company, pioneered by Frederick Patterson and his father Charles R. Patterson. #BlackHistoryMonth

—Frederick Douglas Patterson was the first African American to build motorized cars. His father, Charles Rich Patterson created C. R. Patterson and Sons Company located in Greenfield, Ohio. Beginning in 1865, the company built fashionable carriages. Frederick Patterson inherited the company upon the death of his father in 1910 and began building motorized vehicles. The first Patterson automobile, the Patterson-Greenfield, rolled off the line on Sept 23, 1915. Unfortunately, Henry Ford debuted the Model T on Oct 1, 1908 and by that point had captured most of the American car-buying market.
—Named after abolitionist Frederick Douglass, Patterson was born on Sept 17, 1871 in Greenfield, Ohio to Josephine and Charles Richard. In 1888, Patterson attended Ohio State University where he played football and may have been the first Black player at the school on the varsity team. His passion, however, lay in the family business so he moved home in 1897 and joined his father and brother at C.R. Patterson and Sons. When his father died in 1910, Frederick assumed leadership of the business.

—The Patterson-Greenfield sold for $850 and was reputed to be a higher quality automobile than Henry Ford’s “Tin Lizzy” or Model T. The Patterson-Greenfield car had a forty horsepower Continental four-cylinder engine and reached a top speed of fifty miles per hour. Unfortunately, the Model T had cornered the automobile market. It sold initially for $825 in 1908 when first introduced to the public, but over the years as Ford production expanded, the price by 1915 was $360, the year the first Patterson-Greenfield debuted.

—From 1915 to 1920, the company produced 150 Patterson vehicles of two styles, the two-door roadster and the big four-door touring car. The company slogan, “If it’s a Patterson, it’s a good one” described the company’s carriages as well as the motor vehicles. C.R. Patterson and Sons, however, could not obtain capital to continue manufacturing the automobiles. By 1920 it had shifted production to buses and trucks and Patterson renamed the company to the Greenfield Bus Body Company. During the 1930s competition from Detroit became increasingly more intense.
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[Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives @dom_lucre]

🔥🚨BREAKING NEWS: A plane just crashed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Casualties are currently being reported.