When a white new caster walks up to you as a black person to interview you about receiving SNAP benefits, and you decline. Don't let them make blacks the face of Snap
Anyone can become disabled.
Anyone can lose their job
Anyone can become homeless
Anyone can go hungry.
These are not moral failings. They can happen in an instant.
Most people are far closer to living in poverty than they realize.
We must fight for one another
i no longer need hardcore proof to validate what my intuition tells me. if something feels off about a person,place,thing, it's because something is off. i'm not sticking around to discover what it is. my time & my energy are way too valuable.
Nina Simone
John Coltrane
Miles Davis
Alice Coltrane
Stevie Wonder
Pharoah Sanders
Marvin Gaye
Curtis Mayfield
Charles Mingus
Sam Cooke
Otis Redding
Betty Davis
Aretha Franklin
Gil Scott Heron
Minnie Riperton
Donna Summer
Al Green
Isaac Hayes
Sly Stone
keep exploring!
This is why Im journaling everything we are currently experiencing. It’s why I’m happy my book will be out soon. I remember seeing the diaries of the enslaved at museums.
We have to preserve history.
Here is Steve Biko, he was a South African anti apartheid activist. He founded the Black Peoples Convention preaching about black pride. He was beaten to death by apartheid police while in prison in 1977. He died at 31 years old.
Didn’t expect the comments to be insensitive when a lot of us are living check to check and most of us are one or two checks away from being homeless.
If you don’t like Billy Porter then just say that but let’s bffr. The whole point of this strike is to highlight how much actors and writers are dependent on their next gigs and need to be paid more and better.