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Aggregator of Black Culture. Boosting Blackademia since '99. Feminist. BX-born. Chair, @DukeU's Academic Council. Author #SaveASeatForMe (2026) @BullCitySigmas

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“If you erase it, we will replace it...It’s that damn simple.

'Rep. Kweisi Mfume, D-Md., said Black Americans are “outraged at what is happening now with these efforts to do away with the African American museum and all of the Smithsonian.'
https://t.co/xFun0K5ZC6 | @NewsHour

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In LeBron James, Jaylen Brown finally gets the perfect running mate | @RhodenRhoden8

Basketball questions far less intriguing than potential mentor-mentee relationship between two of NBA’s most outspoken Black men
https://t.co/d4GBrVjhFG | @andscape

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The Piece of Art That Inspired One of Theater’s Greatest Works

An August Wilson classic wouldn’t exist without a Romare Bearden masterpiece. Here’s how the two are intertwined.
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Our Stage, Our Stories: 250 Years of Black Theater in America — The Future
.https://t.co/TE7pn4BF2O | @EBONY

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‘Black Panther 3’ isn’t recasting Chadwick Boseman. It’s wrestling with his legacy | Marcus Shorter

David Jonsson takes up the Black Panther mantle by honoring the past
https://t.co/sl1SleA38f | @andscape

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‘Triage’ is another brilliant genre-bending narrative from Claudia Rankine | Walton Muyumba
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‘For Colored Girls’ at 50: The classic play returns to the Chicago stage, as relevant as ever

ETA Creative Arts Foundation will present Ntozake Shange’s landmark 1976 choreopoem, “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf.”
https://t.co/UKCns5kizS

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'In More Than an Athlete, author Robert A. Bennett III explores the Black Economic Union (BEU) as part of Jim Brown's legacy to answer larger questions about the role of Black athletes as activists, and how their activism impacted their careers and the movements they supported.'--@KentuckyPress
https://t.co/VMlYaN72w0

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Amid AI Boom, Coal Returns — With a Familiar Cost | Willy Blackmore

Trump’s order keeping an Orlando coal plant online renews environmental justice concerns over who pays AI’s pollution bill.
https://t.co/WC74Wahe8x | @WordInBlack

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"He’s a chronicler of New York City, crafting rhapsodies to that near magical machine that chugs and churns along despite everything, through a mire of impossibility."

What I Learned from a Close Read of All of Colson Whitehead’s Work | Jane Ciabattari
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From heartache to hope and back again, Jahnah Camille grows | Aja Arnold

22-year-old Birmingham songwriter Jahnah Camille talks with Scalawag Music about her budding career, her creative process, and what's ahead
https://t.co/B8b5Zr3yyN | @scalawagmag

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A Mental Health Crisis, a Call for Help, and a Death in Police Custody | Cara Anthony, KFF Health News

Weeks after Lloyd Gilmore’s death, key questions remain unanswered — including exactly what happened inside the Missouri police station that day.
https://t.co/5jrgGN2ogP

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There’s a Blue-Collar Hollywood—and the Paramount Merger Will Kill It | Alvaro M. Bedoya

Hollywood isn’t all glamour. It’s thousands of line workers. And a Paramount takeover of Warner will make their lives even more precarious.
https://t.co/VhCgLOE6h8

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Save a Seat for Me: Notes on American Fatherhood
August 4, 2026

#Fatherhood
#Parenting
#BlackMen
#BlackBoys
#BlackMasculinity
#GirlDads

Preorder:
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'History belongs to everyone. But if governments continue to defund national galleries, they will ensure ancient artifacts can only be seen in luxury showrooms, displayed on the coffee tables of the wealthy, and worn by celebrities on the red carpet.'
https://t.co/1HXLlXnB2u

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What’s So Scary About the Frankfurt School? | Michael Shorris

In The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy, A.J.A. Woods looks at how the Frankfurt scholars became the latest bogeymen for the contemporary right.
https://t.co/C1lFQtTMEL | @thenation

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Inside the culty white supremacists the feds are ignoring
https://t.co/nxODQMBkSw | @NPRCodeSwitch

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Miles Marshall Lewis on Hip-Hop, Black Culture & Why Music Journalism Changed | #TheWriteShade with @alpha1906

'the hip hop journalist who was inside Vibe, XXL, and The Source when magazines ran the culture'
https://t.co/hGpM5yzZjJ

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Michael B. Jordan Channels John Wick in The Thomas Crown Affair Trailer

I thought this guy was just an art thief?
https://t.co/Pp68HN6WGR

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How a Novelist of the American Past Recovered His Faith in Its Future

Colson Whitehead’s Harlem trilogy turns away from the pessimism of his recent novels to offer a more hopeful vision for Black history.
https://t.co/igCebLahvN