YES Initiative

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10 Life Proverbs from a former college athlete, you can apply to ANY aspect of life

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@aja_monet Sent you a DM!

[Angel Reese @Reese10Angel]

I LOVE BEING A BLACK QUEEN.😇

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the Ancestors couldnt be prouder 🎯⚡️ @Reese10Angel

[The Sporting News @sportingnews]

"I'm too hood, I'm too ghetto. Y'all told me that all year. But when other people do it, y'all don't say nothing. So this is for the girls that look like me."

Angel Reese is unapologetically her 👏 @Reese10Angel

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Catching @DrSheenaHoward in Milestone Generations!

@DakotaUniverse @patty_lite

#blackcomics #blackmedia

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[ashindi @ashindi]

10 condescending funding practices funders need to stop doing https://t.co/U96SCAlS9m

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@aja_monet @patty_lite

[The Nap Ministry @TheNapMinistry]

I pray Black folks laying TF down and resting tomorrow and letting the service projects for MLK, Jr Day be filled up by white folks.

The Ancestors want us to rest and be with our families tomorrow in honor of his legacy. We Will Rest!!!

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🫰🏿Black Women do better business on that no days off mentality!
2023 you been put on notice —
eat up the free ⚡️ until you have to pay a premium 💰

[Dr. Sheena Howard @DrSheenaHoward]

Be a unicorn to your ideal client and you can charge a premium.

Compete on price and it's a race to the bottom.

The former takes work, the latter simply requires you to start a gig on Fiverr.

For the record, I do both but the latter is not a part of my longterm plan.

[Beth Shelburne @bshelburne]

Your yearly reminder that Willie Simmons is still in prison for a $9 mugging charged as robbery. This will be his 40th Christmas spent in Alabama's violent, overcrowded prison system & lawmakers have done nothing to create a pathway out of prison for Willie and others like him.

[Clint Smith @ClintSmithIII]

But after taking some time to think about it, I realized that this sort of thing was the very reason I had wanted to go to grad school in the first place. I wanted to go spend time learning from the vast scholarship *in* academia so that I could share it *outside* of academia.

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Would @BerkshireBank do more to support our mission?
@GreylockFederal has given us a single $250 grant in the 5 years we have banked there.
The issue is they haven’t tried to get to know us. We would love a bank partner investing in our mission.
Interested? DM us #banks

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⚡️ #InspirationalQuote

[Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks]

“What keeps us going, ultimately, is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict, however all-powerful it seems. It’s what ordinary people have to do. You have to love each other. You have to defend each other. You have to fight.” —Mike Davis

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An Artist sharing a fellow Artist thank you @YabaBlay

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@prisonculture 🧐 literal suggestion: Sister, Outsider by @audrelorde (a collection of speeches and essays)
⚡️ abstract suggestion: The Art of War by Sun Tzu

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The Ancestors are beaming ⚡️

[Alexandria The Pro Audio Wiz 🪄 @DOPECHICKBEATS]

When the elders in the Black community say they proud of you that shit hit different lol. I’m getting my A/C worked on today by an older Black man and he comes upstairs to my office area to make sure to check that it’s blowing cool air and to change the filter.

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@DrJennyJennM Check your DM please!

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@drcwatego @TheEmergentFund @bellhookscenter ⚡️⚡️⚡️ #InspirationalQuotes

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@drcwatego @TheEmergentFund @bellhookscenter ⚡️⚡️⚡️ #InspirationalQuotes

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@DrJennyJennM Thank you for you and the Ancestors that flow through you so vividly your words leap off a screen like ⚡️
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