Pat Tillman said the Iraq War was "fucking illegal" and planned to meet Chomsky and publicly come out against the war shortly before being shot in the head three times at close-range by "friendly fire", which the military covered up. Don't let them whitewash what they did to him
@NifMuhammad @KieseLaymon made me fall in love with revision. Reading, and more so rereading, all his work makes me feel like I finished my first meal back home, and I’m so full I have to undo my belt a loop or two. Revision has changed my life and my writing, my eternal thanks to Mr. Laymon
One thing that’s going around in my mind is how powerful trauma can be in our lives and how trauma + patriarchy can turn us into terrible things. I’m mostly thinking about the joke, the hit, Denzel talking and then Will laughing with P. Diddy after it all. I’m shook and confused.
I was invited to give an MLK speech today and a small number of members of the group hosting me wrote and then leaked emails opposing my giving this speech, as it dishonored Dr. King for me to do so. They called me a "discredited activist" "unworthy of such association with King"
James Baldwin with Sidney Poitier and famed photographer Gordon Parks
‘I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs.’
—Gordon Parks
@RBReich For context, if Elon were to call in to NPR and donate his one-day gains, he'd fund NPR & PBS equivalent federal allowance ($450m) for the next 62 years.
52 years ago today, the American government carried out a planned political assassination of one of our nation's brightest young leaders.
Fred Hampton was my best friend and comrade, the Chairman of the Illinois Chapter of the #BlackPantherParty. 🧵
I cannot emphasize enough how ridiculous and ahistorical it is to say “the country’s never been this divided!” about a place that has never fully resolved a civil war.