laurel's library

former academic. forever reader. when hell freezes over, I'll skate. support your local public library.

[laurel's library @laurelofcourse]

If you have 5 min, you can read this instead of doomscrolling - it's better for your brain, trust me !

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New on Substack: The Difficulty of Mystery
https://t.co/qE9PazcSI5

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@DinaBo_Bina That’s the breaks as Kurtis Blow would say lol

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@offbeatorbit He and Steve Urkel are the same person idc idc

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@BriMalandro Whoopi Goldberg cheshire cat hive stand upppp

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@lettersfromjuno @shelleddiva omggg (Gemini Sun)

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Waiting on the J train at Essex and all you hear every 2 minutes is the roar of the people in celebration

ily New York

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Knicks in 5 🤲🏾

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@yungdesperad0 Hoping you recover well and hate this happened to tou!!

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Alex Cross S2 compared to S1 and The Boys S5 pacing being off while also just being a setup for this show….people need to stop watching Prime bc its only going to get worse.
the new Bond will be 😬

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

First trailer for ‘VOUGHT RISING’, starring Jensen Ackles and Aya Cash.

Coming to Prime Video in 2027

[Smithsonian’s NMAAHC @NMAAHC]

Fashion doesn’t begin on the runway; it begins with vision. In 1979, Lois K. Alexander Lane founded the Black Fashion Museum to protect Black fashion history. Today, her 3,000-object collection is preserved here. Explore: https://t.co/CSW70Foj8K

[Scalawag @scalawagmag]

The most radical thing that Alabama’s famous Freedom Quilting Bee did was not the quilts they sold, but what they did with the money: in 1968, they bought 23 acres of land in Alberta, Alabama, and formed a Black land cooperative.

https://t.co/qzL2crzoPB

[you ain’t got no job tommy! @AceRedBand1t]

If yall are gonna be arguing back n forth with people about what words kids should know at least sign up to read to them and be part of the solution.

Volunteer below!

https://t.co/kfomohdaKt

[Meech @MediumSizeMeech]

Anyway—a perfect example of the issue with the current state of reading is addressed by Fran Lebowitz in conversation with Toni Morrison—people use fiction as a mirror to see themselves instead of using it as a doorway, or a window, as a way out.

[Dr. Stephen G. Hall @historianspeaks]

We have the blueprint!!!!!

https://t.co/QHo0rYk1Yw

[David Dennis Jr. @DavidDTSS]

I wrote a plea. Black women are being killed by Black men at alarming, epidemic rates.

We have to stop this. Us. Black men. We have to.

https://t.co/gPNz4waWs2

[laurel's library @laurelofcourse]

I hope Klay is left with nothing but a burlap sack with a hole in it

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@varruechexo This is cracking me up so bad bc it’s true lmfao

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@BriMalandro “Some baseball stadium” and it’s Camden Yards lmaoo I love every point she has

[Optimus Fine @sunnydaejones]

Whew. The WRITING ASS WRITERS are still here and I'm grateful.

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financial literacy is not a solution to poverty

[DJ R-Tistic @DJRTistic]

The long term effects of this can be astounding. Especially if it’s delivered the right way

[love @loverbello101]

Dr. Cerina Fairfax
Pastor Tammy McCollum
Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer
Ashly Robinson (aka Ashlee Jenae)
Qualeshia “Saditty” Barnes
Davonta Curtis
Barbara Deer
Ashanti Allen

In two just weeks 😭💔🕯️🕊️

#BlackFemicide