Chef Méli

Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics/Georgetown University

[Eche Emole 🅰️🌶 @Echecrates]

The African middle class never organized because we always had the option to leave. What happens when we can't?

[Jesús Rodríguez @jesusrodriguezb]

I wrote about Bobby Pulido, the Tejano singer running for Congress whose opponent dismissed him as a “quinceañera act.” Well, guess where’s he’s campaigning?

A story about tradition and my first in @NewYorker, from Texas →

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Black-owned bookstores in the U.S. now have their own directory for the first time ever, launched by the nonprofit National Association of Black Bookstores — who found that:

• There are 306 Black-owned bookstores nationwide (8% of independent bookstores)
• 14 states have no Black-owned bookstore
• Nearly 90% report annual revenue at under $250,000
• Sales of books by Black authors declined by 14%, despite an increase in overall print sales

Check out the directory: https://t.co/1AuCvzBThm

[Kentah Gwanjez @GWANJEZ]

"Since we met you people 500 years ago, look at us; we've given everything; you're still taking..."

[Chef Méli @chef_meli]

Black Residents Win Key Ruling in ‘Cancer Alley’ Environmental Racism Case https://t.co/ev0YuwMrKM

[Chef Méli @chef_meli]

Fixed that misinformation…

[𝓔𝓐 @AyodejiEA]

I can’t stop watching, this is perfection 💯

[AJ+ @ajplus]

In a historic vote, Georgetown students took the first step in establishing a reparations fund to support the descendants of 272 enslaved people sold in 1838 to finance the university.

[Chef Méli @chef_meli]

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[Chef Méli @chef_meli]

Excellent work is being done!
https://t.co/Wgr214WfEq

[Chef Méli @chef_meli]

@jesusrodriguezb Congratulations!!

[Chef Méli @chef_meli]

Re-Elect Tiffanie Harrison https://t.co/nIO9UDgq5b via @donateway

[Chef Méli @chef_meli]

@JubileeJustice Our Ancestrral Journey

[Locating Slavery's Legacies @locatelegacies]

Set your calendar alerts for 6 Central/7 Eastern Thursday for @DrKarenLCox's call to encourage & support those who write the history of Black experiences in the age of Jim Crow when Confederate monuments repped lies & white supremacy. Link here:
https://t.co/8TuKHhYuyH

[Chef Méli @chef_meli]

https://t.co/iHEsFhEGiR

[ChristinaProenzaColes @ProenzaColes]

Jospeh Tinchant served in the Black regiment that defended Louisiana in the Civil War & fought for civil rights afterwards. His parents had arrived in New Orleans from Haiti by way of Cuba. He became a successful cigar maker & entrepreneur.

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

"New Jersey was known as the 'slave state of the North,' " said Elaine Buck, who co-founded the Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum. The last Enslaved people weren't freed in New Jersey until 1866. https://t.co/1FhfRwWCXM

[Kelly Canuck🍁 @KellyCanuckTO]

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