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Danyel Smith

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NYTM. 3X author. creator/host, Black Girl Songbook podcast. vintage VIBE + Billboard leader. Doc consultant. ESPN. Rock Hall. MacDowell + Yaddo 🎶 👩🏽‍💻 🏈 🎥 📚 https://www.danyelsmithwriter.com/ https://shinebrighthq.substack.com/

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Danyel Smith @danyelsmith.bsky.social · Apr 7

it’s the 110th anniversary of Billie Holiday’s birth: April 7 1915. in Episode 28 of my Black Girl Songbook #podcast, i celebrate the influence of Holiday’s music as it shows up in artists like Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, Diana Ross, and more. listen in www.theringer.com/podcasts/bla...

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Danyel Smith @danyelsmith.bsky.social · 18h

thank you, Mark!

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Mark Armstrong @markarms.bsky.social · 19h

This week's @niemanstoryboard.org podcast features @cmtapper.bsky.social's moving and heartfelt conversation with @danyelsmith.bsky.social, about building the confidence to tell your own story. Give it a listen.

niemanstoryboard.org/2025/10/09/d...

#booksky #podcasts #longreads

Danyel Smith on developing taste as a writer and building confidence to tell your own story - Nieman Storyboard

The award-winning journalist, author, and producer shares lessons from across many forms and genres — from running Vibe magazine to writing her memoir, “Shine Bright”

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Danyel Smith @danyelsmith.bsky.social · 18h

had a nerdy emo convo with the amazing @cmtapper.bsky.social for the @niemanstoryboard.org podcast. we got into journeys of self-worth, my lifelong journaling practice, stories within stories, editing, as well as Sade, Whitney, SZA, and the power of the word, "I" niemanstoryboard.org/2025/10/09/d...

Danyel Smith on developing taste as a writer and building confidence to tell your own story - Nieman Storyboard

The award-winning journalist, author, and producer shares lessons from across many forms and genres — from running Vibe magazine to writing her memoir, “Shine Bright”

niemanstoryboard.org

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Danyel Smith @danyelsmith.bsky.social · 18h

that's a good plan!

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The Athletic @theathletic.com · 18h

'Project B’ is a new women’s basketball league that will feature tournaments in cities across Asia, Europe and the Americas.

The league has already signed WNBA players to join the league, according to co-founder Grady Burnett.

Eventually, the goal could be to rival the W: http://dlvr.it/TNZg73

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Danyel Smith @danyelsmith.bsky.social · 19h

turn it on for like 5-7 minutes. off for an hour or two. repeat as needed. i don’t like to feel like a lil roast in an oven

The Only Roo @freeroo.blacksky.app · 19h

Lmao at micro dose. How?

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Danyel Smith @danyelsmith.bsky.social · 20h

i microdose heat so

The Only Roo @freeroo.blacksky.app · 21h

What does the outside temperature have to be for you to turn on your heat?

Danyel Smith @danyelsmith.bsky.social · 20h

‘the toro is how much?’

Phat Bottom Betty @the-cigar-girl.blacksky.app · 21h

What’s your go-to sushi order?

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was a teen but still

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and i stayed winning

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😶

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 21h

11. What was the first event that disproved your childhood belief that the world is a safe place?

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Danyel Smith @danyelsmith.bsky.social · 20h

endless time with my sister

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 21h

13. What is something from childhood you didn't appreciate until you became an adult?

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Danyel Smith @danyelsmith.bsky.social · 20h

We played like we knew just how ugly things could get. Dashed and pedaled until we damn near popped. Until we were sweaty and shades darker and almost in pain.

Danyel Smith @danyelsmith.bsky.social · 20h

free

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 21h

17. What did you want to be as a kid?

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Danyel Smith @danyelsmith.bsky.social · 20h

randomly eating fruit — plums, blackberries, kumquats — off trees and bushes and vines

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 21h

19. What is something from your childhood that you wish could come back?

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Danyel Smith @danyelsmith.bsky.social · 20h

hate for the Eagles stays strong on First Take

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Combat Jack and Akim Vann’s son

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.)"

Scoop: Mamdani ally weighs challenging Hakeem Jeffries

Just talking about a potential campaign could drive a further wedge between Mamdani — the democratic socialist in line to be New York's next mayor — and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)

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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 22h

Pope Leo is spitting.

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Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Danyel Smith @danyelsmith.bsky.social · 23h

!!!

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yes to this

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goals

Chris Snethen @thechristom.bsky.social · 1d

Rick Steves told me i could travel to Europe with only a carry-on that measures 21” x 10” x 15”. I’m so excited to see if i can do it.

Danyel Smith @danyelsmith.bsky.social · 1d

exactly. also i was traveling a bunch with a longtime friend who is like Delta Diamond or 360 and her suitcase is damn near the size of an eyeglass case. she makes decisions, rolls clothes, and has a colorway so her garanimal spirit can chill