Okanomodé & THE CAROUSEL

NSFW 18+ okanomodé *uh-kahn-uh-mah-day* *lyricist, composer, producer, siren* they/them/ya'll/we/soulchilde

[Okanomodé & THE CAROUSEL @okanomode]

Zohran @ZohranKMamdani + @NYCMayor are u listening?

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

my response to Mayor Mamdani, the reporters calling me, etc.

[Vogues’ Best @VoguesBest]

Happy Pride Month❤️🏳️‍🌈

[zellie @zellieimani]

A lot of folks don’t want to end oppression, they just don’t want to be oppressed. BIG difference.

[Okanomodé & THE CAROUSEL @okanomode]

@zellieimani So sick of these devils. A pox on all their houses.

[Diary of a Martian @MarrsTheMartian]

And what is life, if not Art?

[zellie @zellieimani]

Now, it’s Newark police instead of ICE or the NJ State troopers today outside Delaney Hall. Different uniforms, same shit.

[zellie @zellieimani]

Newark ran Proud Boys out of the Delaney Hall protest. Not their proudest moment.

[björk @bjork]

Exhibition opening !!!!

Outfit by #bottegaveneta

Fox Shinji Konishi
Styling Edda Gudmundsdottir
Makeup Sunna Björk
Photo Viðar Logi

[Okanomodé & THE CAROUSEL @okanomode]

@briebriejoy Carlson & Candice will both have to do some serious atonement for their anti-Black stances before I’m on board with them in any way. Being against the bombing of Palestinians is a step in a good direction, but I don’t need to rush to put either of them on a pedestal.

[PARTYOF2 @ITSPARTYOF2]

the “hip hop is dead” narrative is falling apart in real time!!!

[Kentah Gwanjez @GWANJEZ]

Everybody knows Kenny Rogers recorded ‘Lady’… but hearing Teddy Pendergrass perform it live feels like an entirely different song. Lionel Richie wrote a masterpiece. Kenny Rogers made it legendary. Teddy Pendergrass made it seductive.

[zellie @zellieimani]

Lupe Fiasco & Tracer Ellis Ross backstage at Kanye West's Glow In The Dark Tour (2008)

[zellie @zellieimani]

Being homeless doesn’t mean you deserve to die. It doesn’t mean you deserve to be mistreated. It means you deserve housing.

[Halle @HalleBailey]

tell em that it’s human nature 🌹💐🌸☀️🌷🌳✨

[zellie @zellieimani]

Earlier this month in Paterson, we set up 5 refurbished newspaper stands and filled them with naloxone, the medication that reverses overdose deaths.

2 weeks later, over 500 cartons have been dispensed.

And zero overdose deaths last week. This is harm reduction.

[hate5six @hate5six]

I got my hands on 65 hours worth of live broadcast news coverage and special reports on the MOVE bombing which occurred 41 years ago today. I produced this piece using that archival footage.

On May 13, 1985, Philadelphia police dropped a C4 explosive on the home of the @themoveorganization family at 62nd and Osage Avenue, after 500 police fired over 10,000 rounds into the home. City officials allowed the fire to burn, killing 11 people including five children, and destroying 61 homes.

Eyewitness and forensic evidence indicates that several MOVE children attempted to flee the burning home through the rear but were either shot back inside or their bullet-ridden bodies were thrown back into fire by police waiting in the alleyway.

In 2021, it was revealed UPenn and Princeton had stolen the remains of several of the children and not only conducted experiments on them but also wheeled them out on gurneys at fundraising events.

John Africa's head has never been returned and saw marks on his neck indicate foul play during an unauthorized autopsy.

No one has ever been held accountable for any of it.

In 2023, @mikeafricajr bought the house back which was originally owned by his aunt Louise James, but was seized by the City through eminent domain after the bombing and turned into a police substation. He is barred from turning the home into a memorial until he pays off the $400K mortgage, support link below.

Today we remember:

Rhonda Africa
Theresa Africa
Frank Africa
Raymond Africa
Conrad Africa
John Africa
Tree Africa (14)
Delisha Africa (13)
Netta Africa (12)
Phil Africa (12)
Tomaso Africa (9)
Ramona Africa (survivor)
Birdie Africa (survivor)

Support @moveactivistarchive
https://t.co/2eUgaIWwW1

Archival material accessed through Temple University's Digital Collections

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On this day in 1985, Philadelphia Police Department dropped a bomb onto a residential home occupied by the MOVE Organization.

The Fire Department let the fire burn out of control, destroying 61 homes over two city blocks. 11 people died including 6 children

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[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

One of the greatest singers to ever walk this earth.

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

CNN tried to block it but Bourdain demanded it be aired. When he saw Gaza and the rest of occupied Palestine he knew the murderous conditions imposed by the genocidal Israeli death-cult was unsustainable and would soon erupt. From his guide and "The Gaza Kitchen" author @gazamom

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

here is some of the Parts Unknown episode Anthony Bourdain did in Gaza. Bourdain insisted they go there so he could counter the genocidal racist Zionist propaganda and dehumanization of Palestinians, by merely showing them as they are:

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

when Bourdain said free Palestine and called out the racist vilification of Palestinians by the media class that paved the way for the genocide: "The world has visited many terrible things on the Palestinian people, none more shameful than robbing them of their basic humanity."