ReneeCanWrites

Storyteller • Bookworm • Singer/Songwriter • Culture Critic • @AAHGS member #FindingMyRoots

[ReneeCanWrites @WriteRenee]

Why am I just only *now* discovering the existence of Wite-Out correction tape? This is the most amazing invention ever—after what, 36 years of writing?!

[ReneeCanWrites @WriteRenee]

@xtinehlee Tell Me Everything I Don’t Remember was immense inspiration for me to keep writing (and continue pursuing) my own health-healing journey, @xtinehlee. I trust you have many more books in you! p.s. Might you ever teach or mentor memoir writing again? I’ll keep stalking @Catapult…

[ReneeCanWrites @WriteRenee]

My husband and I can’t play Scrabble anymore because it always winds up so intensely competitive that we take the licks far too personally 😂 @rgay

[ReneeCanWrites @WriteRenee]

@rgay My husband and I can’t play Scrabble anymore because it always winds up so intensely competitive that we take the licks far too personally, ha

[ReneeCanWrites @WriteRenee]

@BraddrofliT My best friend, for 34 years, is one

[ReneeCanWrites @WriteRenee]

@allcurledup Sporty camisoles all the way!

[ReneeCanWrites @WriteRenee]

@allcurledup My mom and I used to separately catch her mom’s perfume in the air on the same day. It was uncanny, yet comforting. 💛

[ReneeCanWrites @WriteRenee]

@allcurledup You getting a visitation?

[ReneeCanWrites @WriteRenee]

@rgay It was so hard to take Sam at all seriously wearing that outfit, but his words to The People after Carly was taken down pretty much made up for it!

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

I still can't really believe that the #1619Project will become a docuseries, and I'm just so honored to be working w such amazing partners as @oprah @RogerRossWill @Lionsgate to bring this work to even more Americans. Grateful for @NYTmag, especially my ride or die
@caitlinroper

[Nicka Sewell-Smith @neeksmith]

In early February, Ancestry announced that they would be re-indexing U.S. probate records to include every name mentioned. This is incredibly important as the initial indexing only was done for the person that died & sometimes their executors. #Genealogy

[ReneeCanWrites @WriteRenee]

Just found out that the parents of my brother's best friend both contracted COVID (after being vaccinated) & died within an hour of each other in the hospital. Both my brother and friend tested positive as well, but thankfully aren't displaying symptoms as of yet. Heartbreaking🖤

[ReneeCanWrites @WriteRenee]

How...can...one...resist? Just gotta say yes to @rgay and her masterly guidance on writing for social change 📝👊🏽

[ReneeCanWrites @WriteRenee]

Bless you for having the passion, patience, and perseverance to not give up on writing these #StoriesWorthTelling Congrats!👏🏽

[ReneeCanWrites @WriteRenee]

“When people think of early recorded sound...they tend to think of early American jazz music....We’ve been told...that those are the primary performers & performances to revere, but every country had their own roots musicians, their pop bands, their entertainers & troubadours.”

[Dust-to-Digital @dusttodigital]

Music journalist @garthcart1 breaks down our latest anthology “Excavated Shellac: An Alternate History of the World’s Music” in today’s edition of The Guardian. https://t.co/Yi7eeFOES2

[ReneeCanWrites @WriteRenee]

Love is not a passive grace; it calls us to do more, be more ❤️

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

Kindness matters.
But kindness does not = justice.

Civility counts.
But calling for civility is not the humane response to injustice.
Justice is.

Love is essential.
But love is not a passive, weeping bystander.

Love puts in the work.

[ReneeCanWrites @WriteRenee]

Thanks so much for sharing this @Prof_Evans! 🙏🏽

[Stephanie Y. Evans, PhD @Prof_Evans]

Here is the “Foundations of Black Women’s Studies” syllabus template (BWST 101). This open access Doc provides instructors/department chairs with a guide to develop an undergraduate or grad level core intro course. Hat tip to prior curriculum creators! https://t.co/J7BY4xW0Yn

[Amanda Gorman @TheAmandaGorman]

Thank you! I would be nowhere without the women whose footsteps I dance in. While reciting my poem, I wore a ring with a caged bird—a gift from @Oprah for the occasion , to symbolize Maya Angelou, a previous inaugural poet. Here’s to the women who have climbed my hills before.

[ReneeCanWrites @WriteRenee]

Heck yeah, count me in! 👋🏽

[Michael W. Twitty @KosherSoul]

I'm thinking of doing a 1.5 hour zoom class on Black Food, Black Resistance and Black Joy, for #BlackHistoryMonth anyone interested so I can make up my mind?

[JaydenLubberss @familytreegirl]

The Cumbo Family: Tracing one of the first African descended families in... https://t.co/PUn8ymVUQH via @YouTube #Genealogy @genealogadvent