The Black Baptist Church—specifically the Southern Christian Leadership Conference—was a cornerstore of a small thing called the Civil Rights Movement. People be on the internet writing and saying anything—and getting paid for it!
Raymond Copeland raised 3 girls as a single father after their mother died. His job with the NYC Department of Sanitation put him on the front lines as an essential employee. He died from complications of Covid-19 at 46. https://t.co/j3mUaUDNtA
The New York accent is both music and ideology, instantly recognizable as sound and almost physically palpable, too.
New Yorkers from every borough entered the #BestNYAccent challenge on Instagram to find the ultimate New Yawk voice.
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“The notion of having a critical mass of black actresses over the age of 50 isn’t something we could have fathomed three decades ago.” https://t.co/N5i0EA6C9D
The Bronx has higher than average asthma hospitalization rates. People were already dealing with compromised respiratory systems from environmental racism,poor housing &pollution inequality before the pandemic. The virus heavily affects black+brown communities in poor parts of NY
this made me emotional for 2 reasons
1. still can’t believe we lost kobe and gigi
2. reminds me that jennifer lost her mother, brother, and nephew in the same night in the city she’s singing in tonight.
she’s such a strong woman. ❤️
Heard a Bloomberg representative went on @npr to double down on what he said & claimed “whoever did this did it to make Bloomberg sound bad.”
The only way Mike can survive this is by making it seem like some mysterious person released the video. Nope. I’m right here dawg