Niama Safia Sandy

Afrofuturist, Diasporadical, Fly Girl Polymath. Curator-Artist-Producer.. Foodie. Collector. Howard (Undergrad) & SOAS (Masters) Alum.

[SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (Simon & Schuster, 2026) @NewBlackMan]

as part of an American Institution -- Holland-Dozier-Holland -- #LamontDozier co-wrote and produced 14 US Billboard number ones ... sit with that for a moment...

#Motown

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@BigPapaAori @craigspoplife 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

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@CassandrasEyes @WerkBytch @craigspoplife IT STANDS UP!!! Missy really did her thing there.

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@toinejameson @craigspoplife MASSIVE BAR! Our music is the keeper of our history, and the flame that sparks our future. I think this is an implicit understanding a lot of us have.

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@Ghetto_Falsetto @JoesPub @TruOsborne Hella late but you know it’s all love!! What an incredible performance AND you had the nerve to come back & give us a good cameo the next day with @CarmenRodgers! You are SINGULAR, my friend.

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@eddiestats @eb4prez @Studio151nyc Mad late but YES! Correct! Lol

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@Geminelle_ @Yahzarah @carnegiehall Awww. Thanks boo!!!!! 💛

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Thanks sis!!!!!! Tonight is going to be EPIC! Grab tix at https://t.co/QeuPhrdrhI

[Tracy's Escapades @TraScapades]

🌌#ArtIsAWeapon Tonight, go "Behind The Groove" - presented by @werblacksmiths, curated by @___niama___, featuring live performances and #music by @Yahzarah, @malsounds, @GabSoul_, for @carnegiehall's #AfrofuturismFestival, at @233butler.

#BehindTheGroove #Afrofuturism

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[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

Dr. King was a radical critic of racism, capitalism and militarism. He didn't die. He was assassinated. And many, including Regan, fought the national holiday we're not commemorating. If you haven't read, in entirety, his speeches, you've been miseducated & I hope that you will

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

When the speech was over, Father Pfleger, who had been been cheering me on from the crowd, whispered in my ear: That's what you call the "You Gone Learn Today" speech and I 💀. Because, yeah.

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

In fact, most white Americans in 1963 opposed the March on Washington where Dr. King gave the "I Have A Dream Speech" with that one line that people oppose to anti-racism like to trot out against those working for racial justice.

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

I left them with this: People who oppose today what he stood for back then do not get to be the arbiters of his legacy. The real Dr. King cannot be commodified, homogenized, and white-washed and whatever side you stand on TODAY is the side you would have been back then.

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

Then I read all the names that white Americans called King: charlatan, demagogue, communist, traitor -- and brought out the polling showing more than three-quarters of Americans opposed King at his death while 94 percent approve of him now.

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

Oh, the uncomfortable silence as I read Dr. King's words at a commemoration of Dr. King's life when people had no idea that these were his words. When I revealed that everything I said to that point was taken from his speeches between '56 and 67... Can you say SHOOK!

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

"I never cease to wonder at the amazing presumption of much of white society, assuming that they have the right to bargain with the BLACK for their freedom..."

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

"Why do white people seem to find it so difficult to understand that the Black people are sick and tired of having reluctantly parceled out to THEM those rights and privileges which all others receive upon birth or entry in America?"

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

"If America does not respond creatively to the challenge to banish racism, some future historian will have to say, that a great civilization died because it lacked the soul and commitment to make justice a reality for all men."

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

"...for the good of America, it is necessary to refute the idea that the dominant ideology in our country, even today, is freedom and equality and that racism is just an occasional departure from the norm on the part of a few bigoted extremists."

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

“Whites, it must frankly be said, are not putting in a similar mass effort to reeducate themselves out of their racial ignorance...with each modest advance the white population promptly raises the argument that BLACK AMERICANS HAVE come far enough.”