Melanated Moments
LightNews LightNews
banner
melanatedmoments.bsky.social
Melanated Moments
@melanatedmoments.bsky.social
22 followers 17 following 33 posts
Posts Replies Media Videos
Pinned
melanatedmoments.bsky.social
Melanated Moments @melanatedmoments.bsky.social · 9h
On This Day In 2008, ‘I Am Sasha Fierce’, Beyonce’s Third Studio Album Debuted At Number One On The Billboard 200

It went on to sell over 9 million units worldwide 📈

#art #music #christmas #blacksky #bluesky #indiedev #gamedev #bitcoin #crypto #AI #AIart #saturday #caturday #poetry #photography
I Am Sasha Fierce Album Cover
melanatedmoments.bsky.social
On This Day In 2008, ‘I Am Sasha Fierce’, Beyonce’s Third Studio Album Debuted At Number One On The Billboard 200

It went on to sell over 9 million units worldwide 📈

#art #music #christmas #blacksky #bluesky #indiedev #gamedev #bitcoin #crypto #AI #AIart #saturday #caturday #poetry #photography
I Am Sasha Fierce Album Cover
December 6, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Reposted by Melanated Moments
melanatedmoments.bsky.social
Her name's Jewel Ham #art #music #christmas #blacksky #bluesky #usa #business #indiedev #gamedev #bitcoin #crypto #AI #AIart #fanart #digitalart #oc #filmsky #booksky #saturday #nature #food #tech #AIイラスト #青空ごはん部 #調布FM #caturday #trending #poetry #photography

www.refinery29.com/en-us/2020/1...
December 6, 2025 at 10:14 AM
melanatedmoments.bsky.social
Her name's Jewel Ham #art #music #christmas #blacksky #bluesky #usa #business #indiedev #gamedev #bitcoin #crypto #AI #AIart #fanart #digitalart #oc #filmsky #booksky #saturday #nature #food #tech #AIイラスト #青空ごはん部 #調布FM #caturday #trending #poetry #photography

www.refinery29.com/en-us/2020/1...
December 6, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Reposted by Melanated Moments
ddotbest.bsky.social
I hate that the Black girl intern that conceived Spotify wrapped didn't get compensated appropriately (or at all). Everybody is doing end of the year wraps now.
December 6, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Reposted by Melanated Moments
utopia-defer.red
I am genuinely losing my mind. The joke is, prima facie, objectively true.

The reason Westport has continued to suck and decline in quality over the last decade is because it is literally in the death grip of racist petite bourgeoisie

bsky.app/profile/utop...
THE COUP: How a Black Restaurateur Lost His Lease in One Week According to court documents, Christopher Lee did everything right. He negotiated for weeks. Flew to California to meet the property owner. Signed a 10-year lease for 4128 Broadway, the former Ale House location in the heart of Westport, on October 21, 2024. Paid a $10,000 deposit two days later. Then his concept, a restaurant and lounge called Euphoric Bar & Lounge, quickly started generating buzz on social media, especially among Black community organizers and promoters. To handle hiring and administrative logistics, Lee used his hospitality and staffing company, Ale House West, to host a recruitment event for Euphoric Bar & Lounge on October 23, 2024. He said the name “Ale House West”— a legacy brand he used solely for business administration — sparked confusion online, as some assumed the defunct “Ale House” bar was reopening. According to filings, Westport CID members seized on that misunderstanding, disregarding Lee’s clarification that Ale House West was merely a hiring service, not the name of the new venue. People talked about jobs. A reopening. The energy you get when a neighborhood is about to see something new. That’s when everything stopped. The keys never came. The landlord, Harold Brody, whose business, 4128 Broadway, LLC, held the lease, allegedly told Lee to change the name, to “target an older crowd,” and to avoid “that young hip-hop crowd.” By the following week, the locks stayed shut. When Lee pointed out Brody was breaching the lease, the owner allegedly responded: “sue me.” What happened between the deposit and the dead bolt? According to the lawsuit: the Westport power structure intervened. Court documents describe a web of phone calls, pressure, and what plaintiffs frame as a shakedown. Brody admitted on a recorded call that Lee wasn’t actually in breach of the lease, stating, “I’m not suggesting that there’s a breach at all it’s just.. it didn’t pan out.” He
December 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Reposted by Melanated Moments
utopia-defer.red
insane local news just dropped. i've lived in a part of KC for ~decade and it's been an inside joke with friends and service workers that the local biz/party district is ran by a cartel of biz owners who bully out new ventures and replace them with generic dive bars for white suburbanites.

Well UH
Federal RICO Case Alleges an All-White Board Runs Westport Nightlife Like a Racist Cartel Federal judge allows civil rights conspiracy case to expand after a local Black entrepreneur’s motion sufficiently alleged evidence of “common discriminatory purpose” to exclude Black business owners from Kansas City’s historic entertainment district. At the center: allegations of a weaponized “Good Neighbor Agreement,” brazen threats captured on tape, and a music ban targeting chart-topping Black artists. By JT ● Arts & Culture, Black Business, Black Economic Justice ● November 17, 2025 The front of Holy Bruch, where Euphoric Bar & Lounge was slated to be. The former site of Ale House, now operating as Holy Brunch KC, located at 4128 Broadway in Kansas City’s Westport district. (Mili Mansaray/Kansas City Defender) Behind the brickwork and neon signs of Kansas City’s Westport entertainment district, a federal lawsuit alleges an invisible regime decides who belongs and who does not. The mechanism of control, according to court documents, is a secret “Good Neighbor Agreement.” The price of entry is compliance. And the enforcers are an all-white, twelve-member board of the Westport Community Improvement District (CID). “We won’t sign a consent of any kind, even beer and wine, unless we have a good neighbor agreement in place,” CID members told prospective business owners, according to a lawsuit that claims to quote an audio recording.
December 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
melanatedmoments.bsky.social
🙏❤️ #blacksky #art #fanart #digitalart #music #bluesky #friday #news #live #usa #bitcoin #crypto #indiedev #gamedev #booksky #filmsky #poetry #illustration #christmas #photography #nature #food #AIイラスト #イラスト #cats #writingcommunity #mlk #business #netflix #青空ごはん部 #ぬい撮り #AIart #tech #letterboxdfriday
ellajoyceactress.bsky.social ELLA JOYCE @ellajoyceactress.bsky.social · 1d
Remember. It worked. The powerful Montgomery Bus Co. changed its humiliating policy. Laws were also changed. Remember this, as we boycott the current age of powerful white stores and businesses capitulating to a racist tyrant, by removing DEI.
Boycott their ill-will commercial Christmas.
Remember.
December 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Reposted by Melanated Moments
ellajoyceactress.bsky.social
Remember. It worked. The powerful Montgomery Bus Co. changed its humiliating policy. Laws were also changed. Remember this, as we boycott the current age of powerful white stores and businesses capitulating to a racist tyrant, by removing DEI.
Boycott their ill-will commercial Christmas.
Remember.
December 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Reposted by Melanated Moments
ign.com
BREAKING: Netflix has entered into a definitive agreement to buy Warner Bros. in a deal worth $82.7 billion. https://bit.ly/49UVgXb
December 5, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Reposted by Melanated Moments
noidoromo.bsky.social
Knock You Down for sure
December 5, 2025 at 11:12 AM
melanatedmoments.bsky.social
Keri Hilson Turns 43 Today

What’s your favorite Keri song?

#blacksky #art #fanart #digitalart #music #bluesky #friday #news #live #usa #bitcoin #crypto #indiedev #gamedev #booksky #filmsky #poetry #illustration #oc #christmas #photography #nature #food #AIイラスト #おはようVTuber #イラスト #oc #cats
Keri 2010s Keri 2020s Keri 2009 BET Awards
December 5, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Reposted by Melanated Moments
durantbooks.bsky.social
I cannot crouch down to look in a drawer without my dog standing on hind legs to lay on my leg. 😆😂
December 5, 2025 at 12:58 AM
melanatedmoments.bsky.social
Does Your Dog Really Love You If He/She Doesn’t Spot You During Pull-Ups? 😂😂😂

#art #eurovision #blacksky #bluesky #indiedev #gamedev #fitness #news #live #thursday #bitcoin #crypto #AI #AIart #nature #food #meme #mufc #poetry #illustration #booksky #filmsky #dogsofbluesky #nfl #AIイラスト #christmas
December 5, 2025 at 12:30 AM
melanatedmoments.bsky.social
Abbott Elementary Creator Quinta Brunson Just Launched A Fund To Provide Free Field Trips To Thousands Of Philadelphia Students

Shout out to Quinta 🙏

#art #filmsky #blacksky #bluesky #eurovision #thursday #AI #indiedev #gamedev #AIart #FF14 #usa #crypto #bitcoin

www.phillytrib.com/news/local_n...
‘Abbott Elementary’ star Quinta Brunson launches fund to provide free field trips to thousands of Philly students
“Abbott Elementary” creator and star Quinta Brunson is teaming up with the School District of Philadelphia to create a fund to provide free school trips to students.
www.phillytrib.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM
melanatedmoments.bsky.social
Shawn ‘Jay-Z’ Carter Turns 56 Today

What’s the first Hov song you heard?

#art #music #blacksky #trending #indiedev #gamedev #thursday #crypto #bitcoin #oc #poetry #booksky #filmsky #digitalart #fanart #AI #AIart #nature #food #AIイラスト #メンエス #PSO2NGS #christmas #illustration #nba #knicks #bluesky
Jay-Z 1980s Jay-Z 2010s Hov Jay-Z 2020s
December 4, 2025 at 10:28 AM
melanatedmoments.bsky.social
Lil Baby Turns 31 Today

What's your favorite song from him?

#thearchers #spotifywrapped #AI #poetry #indiedev #gamedev #music #wednesday #blacksky #trending #青空ごはん部 #創作BL #音の台所 #digitalart #fanart #AIart #bitcoin #crypto #nature #food #usa #bluesky #ちいかわ #spotify #booksky #illustration #christmas
December 3, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Reposted by Melanated Moments
wordsfromapenn.com
Post a random GIF/vid and everything will go great in December
December 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
melanatedmoments.bsky.social
Eddie Murphy Courtside At The Lakers vs Suns Game (December 1st 2025)

#art #spotifywrapped #AI #poetry #indiedev #gamedev #music #comedy #wednesday #blacksky #trending #bluesky #青空ごはん部 #創作BL #NBA #sports #音の台所 #digitalart #fanart #AIart #tech #filmsky #bitcoin #crypto #nature #food #usa #oc
December 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
melanatedmoments.bsky.social
On This Day In 1995, ‘One Sweet Day’ By Mariah Carey & Boys II Men Became #1 On The Billboard Hot 100

It would stay #1 for 16 straight weeks, a record that wouldn’t be broken until 2019

#music #blacksky #indiedev #gamedev #booksky #art #oc #FF14 #AIイラスト #trending #AI

youtu.be/UXxRyNvTPr8?...
Mariah Carey, Boyz II Men - One Sweet Day (Official Video)
YouTube video by MariahCareyVEVO
youtu.be
December 3, 2025 at 1:12 AM
melanatedmoments.bsky.social
Michael B. Jordan & ASAP Rocky Showing Each Other Love At The Gotham Awards Last Night ❤️

#twitchrecap #trending #blacksky #indiedev #gamedev #art #GH #booksky #filmsky #bitcoin #crypto #poetry #news #live #AI #oc #AIart #fanart #digitalart #tuesday #nature #food #青空ごはん部 #AIイラスト #FF14 #music #tech
December 2, 2025 at 9:18 PM
melanatedmoments.bsky.social
NYC Musicians Mainoo, Fabulous and Dave East Talking About The State Of The Music Industry In 2025

#art #music #trending #indiedev #gamedev #blacksky #bluesky #AI #oc #illustration #oc #fanart #poetry #bitcoin #crypto #NYC #business #青空ごはん部 #AIイラスト #tuesday #booksky #filmsky #christmas #AIart #news
December 2, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Reposted by Melanated Moments
nique1.bsky.social
Introduction -- Still my fave JM song to this day:
Janelle-Monae-Cold-War-Music-Video-Screenshot
December 2, 2025 at 12:12 AM
melanatedmoments.bsky.social
Janelle Monáe Turns 40 Today

What's the first thing you saw her in?

Music or Movies?

#art #oc #trending #bluesky #blacksky #digitalart #crypto #bitcoin #indiedev #gamedev #poetry #booksky #filmsky #news #illustration #nature #food #AI #AIart #monday #otgala11 #music #atlanta #AIイラスト #青空ごはん部 #FF14
Janelle Monáe Janelle
December 1, 2025 at 10:35 PM
melanatedmoments.bsky.social
Bobby Shmurda Having A Good Time In The Bronx, NYC Last Week

Always lit seeing Bobby happy ❤️

#trending #indiedev #gamedev #poetry #oc #art #music #live #news #booksky #christmas #sports #NYC #blacksky #AI #fanart #digitalart #青空ごはん部 #イラスト #AIイラスト #poetry #NFL #かなたーと #monday #meme #crypto #tech
December 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
melanatedmoments.bsky.social
Judea 'JuJu' Watkins Recently Became The First College Athlete To Invest In A Professional Sports Team.

She is now a part-owner of new NWSL team, Boston Legacy. Caleb Williams & Aliyah Boston are also part-owners

#oc #art #nfl #blacksky #indiedev #sports #trending #f1jp #大河べらぼう #AI #gamedev
JuJu USC Boston Legacy Logo Chicago Bears QB Caleb Williams WNBA Player and College Basketball Analyst, Aliyah Boston
November 30, 2025 at 10:04 PM