The Lorraine House

A Black-women led project at the intersection of art, community and activism.

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@SAKURARadiochan @GNCordova @twenty_cicada Interesting.

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@ProudUCFAlumnae @GNCordova You’ve made precisely zero sense here.

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@ProudUCFAlumnae @GNCordova How do you feel like that’s your decision to make? You sat on the sidelines when it was time to take a stand against genocide. Your input is meaningless.

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@KwikWarren @GNCordova How are you reading this as a criticism of Kamala when it’s clearly a criticism of your hypocrisy in this post?

[Housing 4 All is Hot @ahouse4all]

I know its really scary for people to face the truth: A lot of the people on the street didn't make "bad" choices. Normal life things happened to them: Layoffs, death of a loved one, illness. That's all it takes and you're on the street.

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@Jonathan_Conley @triciaSc01 Lincoln

[Rep April Berg @RepBerg]

This Juneteenth, let’s remember the enslaved Black people who freed themselves from the cruelest oppression.

Whether through uprising, escape, or tipping the scales towards a Union victory by serving as guides, spies, laborers, etc in the Civil War, we honor them today!

[BLACK ARCHIVES @blackarchivesco]

The Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival (1973) at Jackson State University via @GettyImages

[Brooklyn White-Grier @brooklynrwhite]

Langston Hughes died on this day (May 22) in 1967.

[Artists of Colour @artistsofcolour]

WOMAN WITH HAT, Emma Amos, 1980

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On this day in 1939, Billie Holiday recorded the first great protest song of the Civil Rights Movement, 'Strange Fruit’

The Chilling Story of Strange Fruit and Billie Holiday.

A THREAD!

[Kima Jones🦉🖌🔮🗽📚🚀🦅♠️🔫📝😷🔪🦪🐍🌕🐎 @kima_jones]

On page 152 of 296 of Black Women Writers at Work, by Claudia Tate https://t.co/mqwLAtfG98

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When and Where I Enter by Paula Giddings

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How much of the truth to tell? How much, how much, how much!

Lorraine Hansberry

[📸 @SierraChas]

Toni Morrison said, “Memory (the deliberate act of remembering) is a form of willed creation. It is not an effort to find out the way it really was - that is research. The point is to dwell on the way that it appeared and why it appeared in that particular way.”

[Andrea Roberts, PhD @FreeBlackTX]

A brief but important read. I’m grateful to have contributed to this article which I hope represents continued media engagement with those working to protect historic Black communities. I look forward to expanding this work at my n…https://t.co/Uo7MRvh8N2 https://t.co/nIbP1ZpFvW

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Art hurts. Art urges voyages—
and it is easier to stay at home.

Gwendolyn Brooks