Diamond Sharp

Writer. Chicago/Brooklyn

[Diamond Sharp @diamonde]

Hi! My debut book Super Sad Black Girl has a cover and a release date! This book has been many years in the making and I’m excited to share with you all. You can pre-order it through the link in my bio! 💜🌸💜

[Ms.pinkstarr💕 @MsPinkstarr]

Worst day of her life

[Duff @duffthebrand]

RIP to the legend.

[Tayler @tylrmntg]

Bridgett Davis, director of Naked Acts, is making a new short HELGA! A film in which I also have a role! 🖤

What happens to an artist’s soul when their work is overlooked for decades, then suddenly found?

I’m proud to be part of this! Help us fund it: https://t.co/5EREdeIMEd

[Jasmine Vojdani @jasmineshaadi]

this week, i asked lit mag editors how worried they are about finding AI in their slush piles and what they're doing about it @NYMag
https://t.co/AwhFrJP3cG

[c ⁂quioa @ccequioa]

Dance Theatre of Harlem, 1977

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

“The triumph of self-abjection serves as a soothing narrative hook in a certain species of female-survivorship tale,” Doreen St. Félix writes, about Aleshea Harris’s wise, energetic new film, “Is God Is.”
https://t.co/5fTl93nqWw

[k.༊·˚ @blkwatcher]

real college show incoming

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

The 1963 Birmingham Church Bombing Killed Four Young Black Girls. But They Weren’t the Only Victims of Racial Violence in the City That Day

Hours after the attack, a police officer shot 16-year-old Johnny Robinson in the back. Then, a white teenager mortally injured 13-year-old Virgil Ware as he rode on the handlebars of his brother’s bike
https://t.co/63dECLh1o8

[Richard Brody @tnyfrontrow]

A word in memory and honor of Sonny Rollins, who was so powerful that, playing alone, he was a band; he contained multitudes: 
https://t.co/EMPBAbbSUh

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

New York state officials, citing shifting politics, have agreed to push back a long-awaited report on reparations for slavery to 2029
https://t.co/SFbfr8AhZn

[Harmony Holiday @Harmony_Holiday]

Long live Sonny Rollins, my favorite aphorism of his 'my greatest joy is everything.'

[DiaBia @mommabiia]

Naomi Ackie my IT girl

[ًmya @myapriest]

fun fact, michael produced a predominantly black musical play based on the tale of Cinderella, called Sisterella back in 1996, the play won 8 NAACP awards, and was nominated 12 times :) it’s a very good musical in which i think everyone should watch !!!

[VIBE Magazine @VibeMagazine]

Mya looks back on her first VIBE feature from 1998:

"I absolutely hated the makeup ... but I didn't understand what editorial meant at the time."

[Sapphire @MsSapph]

https://t.co/fFVsFyAaJw via @lareviewofbooks “Jayne Cortez grew up listening to jazz. America’s only original art form was first created largely by Black people, first recorded & copyrighted by whites, and written about almost exclusively (like the Delta blues) by whites.”🎷✍🏾🎷

[Chuko Esiri @chuko_esiri]

The Brothers Who Made Virginia Woolf the Talk of Cannes https://t.co/jlVxw7PkGB via @NYTimes

[lana schwartz @_lanabelle]

in addition to today being nora ephron’s birthday - it’s also 30 years of her singular commencement speech at wellesley - a text i return to time and time again