Ryan Shepard

📍 New Jersey over everything 🎓 American (BA), NYU (MA) 📝 Manager of Editorial Services (@goChoate)

[Ryan Shepard @RyanMShepard]

I had a 1500-word piece about the push to bring HBCUs back to the forefront of collegiate boxing. If you've got a minute, check the story out.

Thank you to the Morehouse Boxing Club, Howard University and the HBCU Boxing League.
https://t.co/3jw6cnQEgd

[ESPN @espn]

Breaking: Former San Francisco 49ers LB Aldon Smith has died, the team announced Saturday.

[Joel D. Anderson 🆓 @byjoelanderson]

No anchor leg supposed to get walked down like this at the NCAAs, let alone by a freshman. Gotdamn

[jojo @_jwigz]

exactly why yall ain't got no damn friends now

[cay @koralinadean]

thats not happening u dont have to even worry about that xx

[Domo Julio @DapperDomo]

I’m tired of multi millionaires complaining about the costs and downsides associated with them being millionaires while the world is starving. Reminder:

The minimum a NBA player can sign a contract for is $66,503 (10 day rookie min)

Median salary in America last year: $64,220

[Kazeem Famuyide 🇳🇬 🍎 @Kazeem]

You a whole sports company, man. Her name is Monica McNutt

[UConn Women’s Basketball @UConnWBB]

Assistant coach Jamelle Elliott is stepping down from the program to pursue opportunities outside coaching.

A seven-time national champion, Jamelle left a lasting impact on generations of Huskies as a player and a coach.

Thank you, J 💙

[The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center @TheKingCenter]

On this day in 1963, civil rights leader and organizer #MedgarEvers was assassinated by a white supremacist in the driveway of his home. We remember his legacy and honor his family, including his wife, #MyrlieEversWilliams, who was a dear friend of our founder, #CorettaScottKing.

#MartyrsOfTheMovement #MLK #MalcolmX #TheKingCenter

[Ryan Shepard @RyanMShepard]

I love Jessie Reyez's music but sometimes I just want to press pause and ask if she's OK. She's really going through it on this album.

[Rap.Chuwy @elormsen]

Hi Guys 🙈

[Andrew Barber @fakeshoredrive]

Lupe Fiasco celebrates 20 years of Food & Liquor in Chicago with back to back sold out shows…

Lupe’s Mom reveals she did not want him cursing in his music like his two favorite rappers: Too Short & Spice 1

[Noname Book Club @NonameBooks]

Blaxploitation Literature 🍯🍯

[Ryan Shepard @RyanMShepard]

Jessie Reyez and 6LACK dropping within a month of each other is exactly how I'd hope the summer would start.

[Ryan Shepard @RyanMShepard]

Trillionaires should not exist.

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Elon Musk, the wealthiest person alive, becomes the first-ever trillionaire as SpaceX stock begins trading https://t.co/G4WPP7DgGL

[⚡️Ayokunu | Multipotentialite @ByAyokunu]

Fun fact, these guys have been travelling to EVERY World Cup since 2006 and they've ALL been friends hitting almost 40yrs!

PS. My Pupz the one doing spokesman!!

[VERSUS @vsrsus]

The DR Congo arrival fits are pure aura.

[ESPN UK @ESPNUK]

No stronger luggage game than the DR Congo national team 🧳🔥

[NEON @neonrated]

Harlem, 1972. You are invited to a party at the home of Duke Ellington.

ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM opens in select theaters October 16. Teaser trailer tomorrow.

[zellie @zellieimani]

A month after installing these refurbished newspaper stands filled with naloxone, almost 900 cartons have been dispensed.

Last week there were zero fatal opioid overdoses. It’s possible one of those cartons saved a life. That’s why we do this work.

[Joel D. Anderson 🆓 @byjoelanderson]

In terms of a boycott, Florida would at or near the top of any list of states that deserve to be starved of black athletic talent. I hope these kids and their parents are paying attention.