we love and will protect that building, its gifts and its people. and, not but…we have always been and will always be bigger and tougher than brick and mortar. on memory, what we need to survive, and what no one can take. thank you @nmaahc. we will continue to fight for you and always, for us. #NMAAHC #Blacksonian #DEI
MUST WATCH: “WHEN IS IT ENOUGH?!” – @corybooker. Being a patriot. Because this is not normal. None of this is normal. Thank you, Senator, for disrupting the ABnormal business of the Senate!!!
“The filibuster is performative” is OUT. Taking action is IN. Don’t trust folks who tell you everything we can’t do when there’s always a chance to get active. Let’s squash this convo and get to work, family 🙏🏾. #CoryBooker #Filibuster #Senate #explore
you may be thinking that one day can’t make a difference. “but it could be one day or day one.” @adriennemareebrown. many of us are part of generations that lived after civil rights, Roe & more protections were already in place. Our elders tried to spare us from having to know that kind of life—or the many sacrifices one must make to secure our freedoms. but Coretta Scott King reminds us that “freedom must be won with every generation.” So if you’ve never boycotted, protested, or engaged in direct action before, let tomorrow be a first step and a day one. consider it exercise—to build the muscle for the season to come. If you never had the muscle, now’s the time to get in the gym. art by @martharich63!! #boycott (NOTE: I want to add that I don’t have any information on where donations to “The People’s Union” go which is why I *have and will not* share them as a resource or encourage you to donate anywhere today. Y’all know I’m big on knowing what’s what before I share! I’m following the lead of a number of Black pastors and churches I trust, like @otismossiii in participating today. Any dollars I spend will go to Black small businesses ✊🏾)
the name of this chapter must be “anyhow.” Lil man arrived over two weeks ago, completing our family and already bringing a lesson. They can threaten us on every hand, but we will create new life anyhow. Circumstances can look impossible, but we will be victorious anyhow. Prevailing wisdom may say it can’t be done, but we do it anyhow. the world is demanding that you shout, but we chose peace and silence anyhow. The enemy is coming for folks like you, but you’ll be blessed anyhow. Things may look grim, but new suns are coming anyhow. Life may make no sense, but we say Hallelujah anyhow. This pregnancy, in this time, in this country, from this Black body, for this Black boy to be born is daring me daily to look in the eyes of widespread despair and declare joy, peace, protection, safety, provision and love *anyhow.* because, lil man, you and your brother MVP deserve that. My children deserve that. all our children deserve that. despite the world you have been born into, you have brought your family the light of hope and possibilities. The gleam of God’s unfailing character and unyielding love is in your eyes. you are a force already. thank you for letting us help you carry your purpose into the world. welcome Lil man. the world is yours 🫶🏾
Record broken. 24 hours and counting. with inspiration, let us act. unrelentingly. thank you @corybooker. #CoryBooker
#WeNeedJoy Take action!
#WeNeedJoy Take action!
Keep calling! The vote is at 1:15 pm est!
Keep calling! The vote is at 1:15 pm est!
Keep calling! The vote is at 1:15 pm est!
Black folks: This is not our crash out era. This is our wisdom era. Our discipline era. Our everything ain’t for public consumption and mixed company era. Our gatekeeping era. Our each one teach one era. Our remember the recipes era. Our remember how we got here era. Our thoughtful and strategic era. They’d love for *us* to crash out. But this is our too smart for that era.
Time to pull out your @5calls app again and CALL CONGRESS! Tell them to vote NO on the Save Act! WE HAVE POWER. LET’S USE IT. They don’t get to steal our democracy. #Action #Voting #Congress #Democracy
Remember when neo-soul hit? it was everything we knew and something entirely new. polar opposites that fit together perfectly. Incense & Hip Hop. Church & hoodoo. Ham hocks and a vegan spot. Gamble & Huff in a headwrap. Refreshing and familiar all at the same time. Vintage and fresh, like granny’s plastic lined couch and the latest J drop. And it never would have been without D’Angelo. Per @kindredthewife, all the soul since has his DNA. You had to be there, and I wish all yall could’ve been. D’Angelo once said he never claimed to do neo-soul. “I said I do Black music.” And that’s the truth, Ruth. an industry needed a label but the people never did: we knew his genius in our bones and we felt every lyric, every line, every note in our deepest parts. He was for us. He was us. It was so true to the spirit of his art that he didn’t want to be VERZUZ anybody: D’Angelo and Friends. Bringing us beauty and Blackness in bleak times. As a balm. As a warm blanket. As a reminder that everything we’ve created is sacred. Three perfect albums. Deliberate. Slow. Intentional. Caring and careful. Gifts for all of us that remain in the pantheon of Black music. They all sound different, but they each distill soul in its purest sense. You changed us forever, D’Angelo. Thank you for living this life so well. We’ll see you in another one. Fly high 🕊️
Shining a light on Brittany Packnett Cunningham ✊🏾✨ A powerful force for change — activist, educator, and relentless advocate for justice. Her unwavering commitment to dismantling systemic oppression and uplifting communities continues to inspire us all to speak up, take action, and lead with purpose. #HERstoryLives #HERstoryLeads #WinWithBlackWomen
“Americans think of themselves as a child-loving people. THIS IS A MYTH.” -Marian Wright Edelman. 1974. Our ancestors would ask: How are the children? It was a test: a society can be measured by how well its children are. I like to think the fine prophets of one Wu Tang had that deep in their knowing when they, too, said they were for the children. Maybe Whitney felt the same. It’s a question we must keep asking—and holding ourselves accountable to the answer. Yall already know what the answer is: not well. Nearly 10 million children are living in poverty. Gun violence is the leading cause of death for children. 1 in 5 high schoolers report considering suicide. But the sickness is not in our children—it’s in our systems. Our children are brilliant. Bold. Creative and resilience. They are joy and genius that deserves defending and nourishing. I’m so honored to join my friends and colleagues in the fight at @childdefender1973 (follow us!) as their new Vice President & Chief Strategy Officer. To work alongside brilliant leaders like my brother @revdrstarsky and @sabrady69 , to stand in the light of the legacies of Marian Wright Edelman and MaryLee Allen, to build with some of the sharpest, most passionate minds and leaders across the country, and most importantly, to do what matters alongside the children, youth and families who lead this movement? I am abundantly blessed. Same girl, same mission, new title. See you on the field. The work is plentiful-may the laborers not be few.
“Americans think of themselves as a child-loving people. THIS IS A MYTH.” -Marian Wright Edelman. 1974. Our ancestors would ask: How are the children? It was a test: a society can be measured by how well its children are. I like to think the fine prophets of one Wu Tang had that deep in their knowing when they, too, said they were for the children. Maybe Whitney felt the same. It’s a question we must keep asking—and holding ourselves accountable to the answer. Yall already know what the answer is: not well. Nearly 10 million children are living in poverty. Gun violence is the leading cause of death for children. 1 in 5 high schoolers report considering suicide. But the sickness is not in our children—it’s in our systems. Our children are brilliant. Bold. Creative and resilience. They are joy and genius that deserves defending and nourishing. I’m so honored to join my friends and colleagues in the fight at @childdefender1973 (follow us!) as their new Vice President & Chief Strategy Officer. To work alongside brilliant leaders like my brother @revdrstarsky and @sabrady69 , to stand in the light of the legacies of Marian Wright Edelman and MaryLee Allen, to build with some of the sharpest, most passionate minds and leaders across the country, and most importantly, to do what matters alongside the children, youth and families who lead this movement? I am abundantly blessed. Same girl, same mission, new title. See you on the field. The work is plentiful-may the laborers not be few.
“Americans think of themselves as a child-loving people. THIS IS A MYTH.” -Marian Wright Edelman. 1974. Our ancestors would ask: How are the children? It was a test: a society can be measured by how well its children are. I like to think the fine prophets of one Wu Tang had that deep in their knowing when they, too, said they were for the children. Maybe Whitney felt the same. It’s a question we must keep asking—and holding ourselves accountable to the answer. Yall already know what the answer is: not well. Nearly 10 million children are living in poverty. Gun violence is the leading cause of death for children. 1 in 5 high schoolers report considering suicide. But the sickness is not in our children—it’s in our systems. Our children are brilliant. Bold. Creative and resilience. They are joy and genius that deserves defending and nourishing. I’m so honored to join my friends and colleagues in the fight at @childdefender1973 (follow us!) as their new Vice President & Chief Strategy Officer. To work alongside brilliant leaders like my brother @revdrstarsky and @sabrady69 , to stand in the light of the legacies of Marian Wright Edelman and MaryLee Allen, to build with some of the sharpest, most passionate minds and leaders across the country, and most importantly, to do what matters alongside the children, youth and families who lead this movement? I am abundantly blessed. Same girl, same mission, new title. See you on the field. The work is plentiful-may the laborers not be few.
“Americans think of themselves as a child-loving people. THIS IS A MYTH.” -Marian Wright Edelman. 1974. Our ancestors would ask: How are the children? It was a test: a society can be measured by how well its children are. I like to think the fine prophets of one Wu Tang had that deep in their knowing when they, too, said they were for the children. Maybe Whitney felt the same. It’s a question we must keep asking—and holding ourselves accountable to the answer. Yall already know what the answer is: not well. Nearly 10 million children are living in poverty. Gun violence is the leading cause of death for children. 1 in 5 high schoolers report considering suicide. But the sickness is not in our children—it’s in our systems. Our children are brilliant. Bold. Creative and resilience. They are joy and genius that deserves defending and nourishing. I’m so honored to join my friends and colleagues in the fight at @childdefender1973 (follow us!) as their new Vice President & Chief Strategy Officer. To work alongside brilliant leaders like my brother @revdrstarsky and @sabrady69 , to stand in the light of the legacies of Marian Wright Edelman and MaryLee Allen, to build with some of the sharpest, most passionate minds and leaders across the country, and most importantly, to do what matters alongside the children, youth and families who lead this movement? I am abundantly blessed. Same girl, same mission, new title. See you on the field. The work is plentiful-may the laborers not be few.
“Americans think of themselves as a child-loving people. THIS IS A MYTH.” -Marian Wright Edelman. 1974. Our ancestors would ask: How are the children? It was a test: a society can be measured by how well its children are. I like to think the fine prophets of one Wu Tang had that deep in their knowing when they, too, said they were for the children. Maybe Whitney felt the same. It’s a question we must keep asking—and holding ourselves accountable to the answer. Yall already know what the answer is: not well. Nearly 10 million children are living in poverty. Gun violence is the leading cause of death for children. 1 in 5 high schoolers report considering suicide. But the sickness is not in our children—it’s in our systems. Our children are brilliant. Bold. Creative and resilience. They are joy and genius that deserves defending and nourishing. I’m so honored to join my friends and colleagues in the fight at @childdefender1973 (follow us!) as their new Vice President & Chief Strategy Officer. To work alongside brilliant leaders like my brother @revdrstarsky and @sabrady69 , to stand in the light of the legacies of Marian Wright Edelman and MaryLee Allen, to build with some of the sharpest, most passionate minds and leaders across the country, and most importantly, to do what matters alongside the children, youth and families who lead this movement? I am abundantly blessed. Same girl, same mission, new title. See you on the field. The work is plentiful-may the laborers not be few.
thinking of my dad today, in this 30th anniversary of the Million Man March. It was a cultural juggernaut of Black pride and unity, beyond any single person, religion, or region. plenty of the Black & Bougie church set said he shouldn’t go—but there were men in his congregation and across St. Louis who were seeking power and purpose in community. So he led a bus of 100 to join the other 2 million on the mall that day. And in his signature activist, radical practitioner, Southside Chi, imma-say-what-I-wanna-say way, he embodied the power, poise and joy that was true to him and true to the moment. everyday I want to be my father’s daughter. I strive to be. Miss you, my guy. — Slide 1. The Late Great Gregory Freeman’s homage to my father upon his passing. 1996. STL Post Dispatch. Slide 2. Darren Sands’ very generous profile of me last year in AP, which I’ve been too emotional to share fully yet. Slide 3. Me and Pop Dukes: Spades teacher, liberation preacher, a through and through Chicago creature.
thinking of my dad today, in this 30th anniversary of the Million Man March. It was a cultural juggernaut of Black pride and unity, beyond any single person, religion, or region. plenty of the Black & Bougie church set said he shouldn’t go—but there were men in his congregation and across St. Louis who were seeking power and purpose in community. So he led a bus of 100 to join the other 2 million on the mall that day. And in his signature activist, radical practitioner, Southside Chi, imma-say-what-I-wanna-say way, he embodied the power, poise and joy that was true to him and true to the moment. everyday I want to be my father’s daughter. I strive to be. Miss you, my guy. — Slide 1. The Late Great Gregory Freeman’s homage to my father upon his passing. 1996. STL Post Dispatch. Slide 2. Darren Sands’ very generous profile of me last year in AP, which I’ve been too emotional to share fully yet. Slide 3. Me and Pop Dukes: Spades teacher, liberation preacher, a through and through Chicago creature.
thinking of my dad today, in this 30th anniversary of the Million Man March. It was a cultural juggernaut of Black pride and unity, beyond any single person, religion, or region. plenty of the Black & Bougie church set said he shouldn’t go—but there were men in his congregation and across St. Louis who were seeking power and purpose in community. So he led a bus of 100 to join the other 2 million on the mall that day. And in his signature activist, radical practitioner, Southside Chi, imma-say-what-I-wanna-say way, he embodied the power, poise and joy that was true to him and true to the moment. everyday I want to be my father’s daughter. I strive to be. Miss you, my guy. — Slide 1. The Late Great Gregory Freeman’s homage to my father upon his passing. 1996. STL Post Dispatch. Slide 2. Darren Sands’ very generous profile of me last year in AP, which I’ve been too emotional to share fully yet. Slide 3. Me and Pop Dukes: Spades teacher, liberation preacher, a through and through Chicago creature.
