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Funky D @funkydaggers.bsky.social · 21m

#MusicChallenge 30 years of Jamal "Last Chance, No Breaks." 1st full listen? Maybe, but HOW?! Very dope album! The 16 y.o. showed street wisdom & charisma beyond his years. Grimy, funky beats from a cast inc Erick Sermon, Rockwilder & Easy Mo Bee. Many great tunes like this Redman banger!

Insane Creation

YouTube video by Jamal - Topic

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Les-Boogie @lesboogie.blacksky.app · 17m

Thelonious Monk (October 10th, 1917 – February 17th, 1982)
📷 Burt Glinn

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · Mar 24

But while W.E.B. DuBois was in Ghana, the State Dept refused to renew his passport, effectively annulling his U.S citizenship.

The American civil rights icon became a Ghanaian citizen and died there in 1963.

Glad to see the honorable scholar welcomed with such warmth, flowers, children dancing..

W E B Du Bois visits China in 1959, celebrating his 91st birthday in Beijing.

Documents W. E. B. and Shirley Graham Du Bois's trip to Peking in 1959 sponsored by the China Peace Committee and the Chinese People's Association for Cultur...

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · Mar 24

In 1952 the State Department illegally revoked W.E.B.Du Bois’s passport to stop him from traveling. SCOTUS restored passport rights for suspected communists in 1958, and three years later Du Bois become an expat in postcolonial Ghana. 1/2

"W.E.B. Du Bois visits China in 1959, on his 91st birthday"

W E B Du Bois visits China in 1959, celebrating his 91st birthday in Beijing.

Documents W. E. B. and Shirley Graham Du Bois's trip to Peking in 1959 sponsored by the China Peace Committee and the Chinese People's Association for Cultur...

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 2h

Exactly right.

Both W.E.B. Du Bois and Paul Robeson had their passports revoked for political speech and were prevented from traveling.

As a scholar and a performer, they each had to rely on friends and mutual aid to support their families because retaliation affected their livelihood.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 18h

In 1857, Thomas Howland became Providence, RI's first Black elected official.

Later that year, he decided to emigrate to Liberia with his wife & daughter after the Dred Scott case denied Black people protections of U.S. citizenship. He was denied a passport.

Thomas Howland, 1856
John Blanchard

Portrait of a distringuished Black man from the 19th centrure wearing fine clothes, including high collar and tie of the day.
Museum Text:
Thomas Howland, the subject of this unusually expressive portrait, was a dock worker in Providence, Rhode lsland, In 1857 he became the city's first Black elected oficial when he was amed warden of its Third Ward. However, that same year he decided to emigrate to Liberia with his wite and daughter, perhaps in response to the recent Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case that denied African Americans the protections of U.S. citizenship. Because of this decision, Howland's application for a passport was denied, despite his status as a free man with the right to vote in his home state (he did eventually make it to Liberia). Howland's confident posture echoes that of the earlier Portrait of a Gentleman shown nearby, the fashionable attire of both sitters serving to reinforce thelir self-possession.

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Dee Phunk @deephunk.bsky.social · 15h

Could you imagine if Jay-Z took Columbia Records to court in 2001 bc Nas called him a "Tae Bo ho" in "Ether" ?

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Les-Boogie @lesboogie.blacksky.app · 14h

2 Yankees

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Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 16h

Bruh Drake lost. It's done. You still arguing different is a tragic moral failure on your part. Out rapped. Outsold. Out awarded. Dissed at the super bowl while his ex crip walked on stage. And lost in a court of law. Only thing left is for Kendrick to adopt Adonis and give a father to look up to.

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Sis. Petty Shabazz @deelo502.bsky.social · 15h

“The court also noted that Kendrick's pedophile line "was a direct callback to Drake's lyrics" in his previous diss track, "Taylor Made Freestyle."”

Lmaoooooo! Imagining the judge going through each track in the back’n’forth & taking notes.

a man wearing glasses and a scarf is looking at something .

ALT: a man wearing glasses and a scarf is looking at something .

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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 15h

I'm not sure who uses Microsoft 365 and needs to hear this, but the recent price increase from $69.99 to $99.99 is for the added functionality of CoPilot, their AI tool. If you choose Microsoft 365 without CoPilot, you can retain the $69.99/year subscription price.

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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 23h

Needing multiple streams of income to stay afloat is a societal failure not a personal one. You should be able to afford a comfortable lifestyle with one job. You are not lazy.

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Les-Boogie @lesboogie.blacksky.app · 19h

Hill Street Blues
Sanford & Son
Sesame Street
Fat Albert
St. Elsewhere
Dallas

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 19h

Name your fav TV Show Theme Song.

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 2d

I was Pritzker’s biggest fanboy, so I realize it’s hard to accept his betrayal. It was hard for me, but I saw it with my own eyes.
Please stop gaslighting me about Pritzker. You weren’t there. I was. These are Pritzker’s brown shirts, working fist-in-glove with ICE/CBP.

Pritzker’s brown shirts attacking protesters.

Pritzker’s brown shirts. Dude in military gear is also Pritzker’s.

Note the Illinois State Police patch on the dude in military gear.

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Les-Boogie @lesboogie.blacksky.app · 20h

The 12" extended version >>>>>
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Sensitivity (Extended Version)

YouTube video by Ralph Tresvant - Topic

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21h

Legacy media is such a fucking joke.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 21h

Following MTG's lengthy CNN sitdown interview, Wolf Blitzer tells her:

"You‘re a courageous politician, but more important, a loving mother. Thanks very much for coming in. We hope you‘ll come back here in the Situation Room."

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Tiricohairline @trejames.bsky.social · 20h

She voted for it

Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 21h

SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON CALLED OUT ON AIR:

'my kids could die if you don't stop playing games with our healthcare'

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Les-Boogie @lesboogie.blacksky.app · 20h

October 9th, 1990. Produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, Ralph Tresvant releases "Sensitivity", the lead single off of his self-titled debut album.

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Free Parking 🚘 @free-parking.bsky.social · 1d

This is exactly what we need. This is it.

"New York City Council member Chi Ossé, a close ally of Zohran Mamdani, is privately discussing a run against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)"