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[rod p @escopkc]

Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! #MyTwitterAnniversary

[Effective Immediately ❗️ @EffctivImmdtly]

The switch up is inevitable❗️

[Gary Chambers @GaryChambersJr]

A New Black South isn’t for everybody, but it will benefit everybody.

If our ancestors, fresh off the plantation, could win control of half a state legislature and multiple statewide offices, why can’t we?

Conservatives fight so hard to keep control of state government because they know what’s at stake. State governments direct billions of dollars in contracts and investments that create opportunity and shape the future of communities.

We have the ability to build political power, strengthen our economic future, and help shape the future of the South.

We can also create a more just region. We may never prevent every injustice, but we can build institutions that hold people accountable when our communities are harmed.

I believe in us, unapologetically. Now it’s time for more of us to believe in ourselves.

What we doing now ain’t working, it’s time for a new strategy. Betting on us.

Share if you care 🦾

[The Art Of Dialogue @ArtOfDialogue_]

Jay-Z does a mashup of Snoop Dogg’s song “Murder Was the Case” during his performance of “D’Evils,” and then follows it with a performance of “No Church in the Wild” at his “JAY-Z 30” show at Yankee Stadium, celebrating the 30th anniversary of Reasonable Doubt.

[NEW YORK KNICKS @nyknicks]

knicks basketball is always on our mind

[BMB Empower Network @Bmbempower]

Look at all the love #VicePresident #KamalaHarris and her Husband 2nd Gentlemen #DougEmhoff received at the #WNBA game in #LosAngeles, #California

[ESSENCE @Essence]

To our Curators, thank you.

Mara Brock Akil, Nina Compton, Nikole
Hannah-Jones, and Sanaa Lathan, thank you for sharing your creativity, your perspective, and your heart with the ESSENCE Festival family.

From unforgettable, thought-provoking conversations to moments of joy, healing, food, and community, your vision helped make this family reunion one we’ll never forget.

Culture is at its best when we all have a hand in creating it. It’s a reflection of our collective creativity, our shared experiences, and the power of bringing brilliant minds together. Thank you for helping make this year’s ESSENCE Festival a living expression of Black joy, creativity, and possibility.

Here’s to the Curators who helped make ESSENCE Festival 2026 unforgettable.

Want to take the magic home? Pick up the special ESSENCE Festival Curators Double Issue on newsstands July 21.

Photos: Peace Bureau
Design: @so.lit

[Gary Chambers @GaryChambersJr]

I’m going to always inform Black people of our power and how we make real change. They want to make it complicated. Sometimes the simplest answer is the right one: support the people already doing the work.

The South isn’t lacking power. We’ve been lacking investment. If the resources matched the opportunity, we’d be having a very different conversation.

Click the link in my bio to support Civics for the People so we can keep informing the South of its power.

Share if you care. 🦾

[CC Sabathia @CC_Sabathia]

Jay-Z x Yankee Stadium. My why 🙏🏾💙

[⭐Jill Scott⭐ @missjillscott]

Norf Sideeeeee @TierraWhack @REALDJPREMIER

[FRSHOUT Hip Hop @FrshoutHipHop]

JAŸ-Z (@sc) brings out Nas (@Nas) for a medley of “The World Is Yours” and “NY State of Mind” 🔥🔥🔥

[Rashaan Ali @Sir_RashaanAli]

@TheRocSupremacy @fatjoe and @Therealkiss

[Peter Rosenberg @Rosenbergradio]

My immediate review of Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt 30 show at Yankee Stadium

[Variety @Variety]

Jay-Z brings out Nas for a medley of “The World Is Yours” and “NY State of Mind”

[NFR Podcast @nfr_podcast]

JAY-Z BROUGHT OUT NAS TO PERFORM AT JAŸ-Z30 🚨

• DEAD PRESIDENTS
• WORLD IS YOURS

#JAYZ30

[CBS Mornings @CBSMornings]

Eva Marcille, who won the third cycle of “America’s Next Top Model,” reveals the heartwarming text she received from Tyra Banks after returning to her pixie cut: “I wanted to go back to where I started." https://t.co/h48JaVi8g0

[dank @cptdankkk]

Jaylen Brown says 60% of NBA players lose most of their wealth because the agency model broken

“I hope I ruffle all the motherfucking feathers. The agency model isn't working. It's a bunch of players going broke when they retire. It's like 60% of players within the first 10 years are losing majority of their wealth after making millions of dollars. Living check to check. You can blame the athlete, maybe they living expenses, but they was 18 or 19 when they came into wealth and the people that represented them didn't help them handle that in no capacity or care to. After they get you and they get in your pocket, they just go get the next one and get in his pocket”

“This is what I'mma stand on. And this could be controversial, but I don't care. If you can't help me at 18 or 19 to maintain my wealth, build a legacy, and keep what I'm earning and be able to influence me on my decision making, you shouldn't be representing me in the first place. Shouldn't even be allowed to walk into my house. But we allow this agency model. They keep coming in and they keep stripping everything and we giving it right back to the same people that was giving it to us in the first place. Giving it right back”

“Something got to change. There's been people taking advantage of these 18, 19 young kids, and nobody says nothing. I think that's a part of the problem where we don't say that and we just allow that to be normalized. No, that shit ain't normal. You get millions of dollars and now you broke. And the people that's representing you can't even pick up the phone now. These people have continued to do that and they're gonna continue to do it because they see it as business and economic opportunity”

[Chuck D @MrChuckD]

Brilliant Brother

[The Art Of Dialogue @ArtOfDialogue_]

“I didn’t know until the police showed up that I had broke the law.”

Actor Tim Reid says he got arrested in 1981 while in South Africa during apartheid for playing Bob Marley on the air, and says he had to escape South Africa.

(🎥 CBS6/TimReidSr/IG)

[Gary Chambers @GaryChambersJr]

Walked right through an interview. I was just going where I was called 😂😂🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️😂😂

Think fast and keep smiling 😂

I offered a solution to the problem though 🦾😂

[My Mixtapez @mymixtapez]

Chris Johnson's wife, Brittany, shared a heartfelt video of her husband simply being a dad during the early stages of his battle with ALS. ❤️