The Weekly Read is "Enter the Mystery: Black Experimental Film and Visual Culture as Metaphysical and Spiritual Practice" by Michele Prettyman. The article is published in the open access journal liquid blackness. Read it for free: https://t.co/zpIgmHAcQu
I keynoted the VA State Highway Marker for historic Treble Clef Book Lovers Club, the longest running Black women's book club in America in my RVA hometown. My mother is president! This organization engages in resistance strategies and educational service activities for uplift!
coffee brownie ice cream I was craving so badly.
custard base, double shot of espresso, steeped coffee beans, toasted turbinado sugar and my signature salted buckwheat brownies folded in.
Duke Ellington slept here. So did Sammy Davis Jr., Sarah Vaughan, and Count Basie. For 30 years, this corner of 15th and U was the address in Black Washington. Then in 1974, the wrecking ball came.
https://t.co/aX6MsE6dGc
A senator's wife tried to move the White House to a hill in NW DC. She failed, then built something stranger: a park with 13 cascading fountains, a vanishing naked man, and Castro holding a baby.
https://t.co/5mtP14YrAU
— sade & grace jones on the british chat show “loose talk” (1983). 💟🌬️🍃🩵🦋 two of my divine legendary queens in one room. so iconic! the otherworldly beauty & enigmatic aura from them both. talking about money & grace jones advising sade to lie, i cherish these divas.