In order to avoid the unnecessary diaspora wars that happened last year on Juneteenth, I’ll be starting a mass thread to celebrate everyone within the diaspora. This thread will include each countries respected independence and emancipation day.
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An explosion of misinformation about Nolan Wells has spread across social media, including an AI video that used his mother's likeness to spread misinfo https://t.co/6ggMOu8AZr
People are so easy to make everything an individual moral failing that we aren’t even allowed to acknowledge the intentional systemic oppression causing this situation.
It's worth noting how Mbappe has the same number of goals as Norway's Haaland. Haaland has been catapulted to GQ covers. He seems nice as well as talented. Conversely, Mbappe is receiving global racial abuse even from politicians bc anti-Blackness is pervasive the world over.
Call me old fashioned idc but I never thought it was cute to be in any creative field and be oblivious to the people that came before you. Especially as an African American working in arts + entertainment.
Today, members of the King family joined The National Park Service in Atlanta in celebrating the upcoming (July 4th) reopening of the Martin Luther King Jr. Birth Home, in which my father was born. I shared my thoughts about the reopening in my remarks at today’s gathering. Listen to some of those thoughts in the video.
The Birth Home on Auburn Avenue is part of the larger Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park around the Sweet Auburn neighborhood. The Birth Home has been closed for restoration since late 2023.
The Birth Home is right up the street and within walking distance of The King Center; however, The King Center is not a part of the MLK, Jr. National Historical Park.
King family members also in attendance and in the video: my brother, Martin Luther King, III, his wife, Arndrea, and their daughter, Yolanda Renee; Dr. Angela Farris Watkins (daughter of my paternal aunt, Dr. Christine King Farris); Farris Watkins (Angela’s daughter); and Isaac Newton Farris, Jr. (Aunt Christine’s son)
#MLK #ChristineKingFarris #SweetAuburn #Atlanta #TheKingCenter
The "rap music is making Black people behave criminally" arguments are surfacing again. Y'all keep rediscovering antiblack common sense from decades ago. Please read Kimberlé Crenshaw's smart 1991 op-ed, "Beyond Racism and Misogyny: Black Feminism and 2 Live Crew," where she carefully exposes the moral panic surrounding rap music. See attached: Boston Review https://t.co/ZjDLOeBL4q
@TheOG_original@Venusofdetroit Male rappers have been talked about since the 80s. However, it’s disingenuous to think a conversation regarding censorship and respectability politics are remotely the same.
The "rap music is making Black people behave criminally" arguments are surfacing again. Y'all keep rediscovering antiblack common sense from decades ago. Please read Kimberlé Crenshaw's smart 1991 op-ed, "Beyond Racism and Misogyny: Black Feminism and 2 Live Crew," where she carefully exposes the moral panic surrounding rap music. See attached: Boston Review https://t.co/ZjDLOeBL4q