Timothy Welbeck
@timothywelbeck.bsky.social
Director, Center for Anti-Racism, Temple University | Civil Rights Attorney |
Believer. Husband. Father.
www.timothywelbeck.com
Believer. Husband. Father.
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October 9, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Many thanks to Mickey Factz for visiting my class on Kendrick Lamar at Temple University (“Kendrick Lamar and the Morale of the m.A.A.d city”).
We discussed his career, the Blog Era, collaborating with Kendrick, and what makes Kendrick such a compelling writer. We even got a bar breakdown.
We discussed his career, the Blog Era, collaborating with Kendrick, and what makes Kendrick such a compelling writer. We even got a bar breakdown.
September 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Many thanks to Mickey Factz for visiting my class on Kendrick Lamar at Temple University (“Kendrick Lamar and the Morale of the m.A.A.d city”).
We discussed his career, the Blog Era, collaborating with Kendrick, and what makes Kendrick such a compelling writer. We even got a bar breakdown.
We discussed his career, the Blog Era, collaborating with Kendrick, and what makes Kendrick such a compelling writer. We even got a bar breakdown.
I need to do better about sharing on here. I was on the latest episode of @msolurin.bsky.social’s #OlayandFriends. Y’all should give it a listen.
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Drake & Young Thug Are SPIRALING | OLAY & FRIENDS
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September 21, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I need to do better about sharing on here. I was on the latest episode of @msolurin.bsky.social’s #OlayandFriends. Y’all should give it a listen.
youtu.be/RzYEdIjr4xI?...
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“Sesame Street” and its sequel, “The Electric Company,” were, “with lapses, the most intelligent and important programs in television,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
The Invention of “Sesame Street”
Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.
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August 3, 2025 at 9:24 PM
“Sesame Street” and its sequel, “The Electric Company,” were, “with lapses, the most intelligent and important programs in television,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
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When ICE agents questioned a group of 11- to 14-year-olds who’d just finished batting practice, their coach, Youman Wilder, stepped in. “I’m willing to die to make sure these kids can get home,” he recounted afterward.
ICE Agents Invade a Manhattan Little League Field
Youman Wilder has coached local kids for twenty-one years—including four who have gone pro. When masked agents tried to interrogate his players, he told them, “You don’t have more rights than they do....
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July 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
When ICE agents questioned a group of 11- to 14-year-olds who’d just finished batting practice, their coach, Youman Wilder, stepped in. “I’m willing to die to make sure these kids can get home,” he recounted afterward.
There’s an old country adage that says you can boil a live frog in a pot on the stove so long as you gradually increase the temperature, because it will not perceive the inherent danger of the incrementally increasing heat.
The water is now boiling. Let the reader understand.
The water is now boiling. Let the reader understand.
July 15, 2025 at 4:31 AM
There’s an old country adage that says you can boil a live frog in a pot on the stove so long as you gradually increase the temperature, because it will not perceive the inherent danger of the incrementally increasing heat.
The water is now boiling. Let the reader understand.
The water is now boiling. Let the reader understand.
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This how I know black folk and white folk live in different realities. Because I coulda told you in my teens that some people in this country have so much hate in their hearts that they’d burn this country to the ground just to be rulers over ashes, if it meant people they don’t like get hurt more.
June 29, 2025 at 11:41 AM
This how I know black folk and white folk live in different realities. Because I coulda told you in my teens that some people in this country have so much hate in their hearts that they’d burn this country to the ground just to be rulers over ashes, if it meant people they don’t like get hurt more.
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Within two hours of a Supreme Court ruling that limits the ability of federal courts to impose universal injunctions, lawyers for immigrant rights groups filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of their clients.
What is birthright citizenship and what happens after the Supreme Court ruling?
Within two hours of a Supreme Court ruling that limits the ability of federal courts to impose universal injunctions, lawyers for immigrant rights groups filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of their clients.
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June 28, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Within two hours of a Supreme Court ruling that limits the ability of federal courts to impose universal injunctions, lawyers for immigrant rights groups filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of their clients.
@whyy.org recently published a story about my forthcoming Kendrick Lamar course. You may read it below.
whyy.org/articles/tem....
whyy.org/articles/tem....
Temple professor breaks down Kendrick Lamar’s legacy in new university course
The course will explore the rapper’s life, lyrics and impact through an Afrocentric lens, connecting hip-hop to broader themes of race, culture and urban America.
https://whyy.org/articles/temple-university-course-kendrick-lamar/#:~:text=The%20new%20course%2C%20titled%20“Kendrick,Temple%20University%2C%20developed%20the%20course
June 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
@whyy.org recently published a story about my forthcoming Kendrick Lamar course. You may read it below.
whyy.org/articles/tem....
whyy.org/articles/tem....
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COMMENTARY: What’s the right way to mark Juneteenth? The newest U.S. holiday is confusing Americans @timothywelbeck.bsky.social writes for @theconversation.com lailluminator.com/2025/06/19/j...
What’s the right way to mark Juneteenth? The newest U.S. holiday is confusing Americans • Louisiana Illuminator
Four years after President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, Americans have wrestled with what to make of the holiday.
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June 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
COMMENTARY: What’s the right way to mark Juneteenth? The newest U.S. holiday is confusing Americans @timothywelbeck.bsky.social writes for @theconversation.com lailluminator.com/2025/06/19/j...
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What’s the right way to mark Juneteenth? The newest US holiday is confusing Americans
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June 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
What’s the right way to mark Juneteenth? The newest US holiday is confusing Americans
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Celebrated today, the United States’ newest federal holiday has quickly become its most puzzling one.
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Celebrated today, the United States’ newest federal holiday has quickly become its most puzzling one.
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What’s the right way to mark Juneteenth? The newest US holiday is confusing Americans • Kentucky Lantern
United States’ newest federal holiday — Juneteenth National Independence Day — has quickly become its most puzzling one.
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June 20, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Thank you for sharing this.
What is Juneteenth? What is the proper way to celebrate it? In many ways, the United States’ newest federal holiday has quickly become its most puzzling one. I talk about this in my latest article for @theconversation.com.
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June 20, 2025 at 12:40 AM
What is Juneteenth? What is the proper way to celebrate it? In many ways, the United States’ newest federal holiday has quickly become its most puzzling one. I talk about this in my latest article for @theconversation.com.
theconversation.com/whats-the-ri...
theconversation.com/whats-the-ri...
In all seriousness, with all this talk about #HarrietTubman, I’d highly recommend Dr. Erica Armstrong Dunbar’s #SheCametoSlay. Y’all need that in your life.
June 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
In all seriousness, with all this talk about #HarrietTubman, I’d highly recommend Dr. Erica Armstrong Dunbar’s #SheCametoSlay. Y’all need that in your life.
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Black Women Plan & Prepare Period. And yeah we knew and told y’all!
May 29, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Black Women Plan & Prepare Period. And yeah we knew and told y’all!
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truth tellers are punished most when they are early, not wrong.
May 29, 2025 at 3:19 AM
truth tellers are punished most when they are early, not wrong.
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There's an easy fix for this.
Start a nationwide project using AI to identify the people snarling in the background of all those old civil rights photos.
Problem solved.
Start a nationwide project using AI to identify the people snarling in the background of all those old civil rights photos.
Problem solved.
May 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
There's an easy fix for this.
Start a nationwide project using AI to identify the people snarling in the background of all those old civil rights photos.
Problem solved.
Start a nationwide project using AI to identify the people snarling in the background of all those old civil rights photos.
Problem solved.
My favorite muppet with the sage wisdom.
“Life is better when we leap together.” Kermit the Frog delivered a commencement speech at the University of Maryland on Thursday, the alma mater of his creator, Jim Henson. nyti.ms/4dwMuhQ
May 24, 2025 at 11:15 PM
My favorite muppet with the sage wisdom.
I advise all my family, friends, and clients never to speak to law enforcement without an attorney present. The 5th and 6th Amendments exist for a reason.
Do with that what you will.
Do with that what you will.
As a non-lawyer, things will go much more smoothly if you just answer the questions and give them your devices. If you've done nothing wrong, there's no crime to charge you with. If they want to fabricate charges, they'll do that regardless of what you say.
May 13, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I advise all my family, friends, and clients never to speak to law enforcement without an attorney present. The 5th and 6th Amendments exist for a reason.
Do with that what you will.
Do with that what you will.
Happy #MothersDay Mom. I thank God for you, your love, your nurturing, and your patience. It shaped me into the man I am today.
May 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Happy #MothersDay Mom. I thank God for you, your love, your nurturing, and your patience. It shaped me into the man I am today.
Happy Mother’s Day my love. What a great joy it is for our children to call you Mom.
May 11, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Happy Mother’s Day my love. What a great joy it is for our children to call you Mom.
Yesterday, we celebrated the beautiful lives and legacy of Kwasi and Elizabeth Agbottah.
I thank God for placing such a treasure in the earth.
It is beautiful to see their legacies alive and well in their five children. As his eldest said, we must finish what they started. We will.
I thank God for placing such a treasure in the earth.
It is beautiful to see their legacies alive and well in their five children. As his eldest said, we must finish what they started. We will.
May 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Yesterday, we celebrated the beautiful lives and legacy of Kwasi and Elizabeth Agbottah.
I thank God for placing such a treasure in the earth.
It is beautiful to see their legacies alive and well in their five children. As his eldest said, we must finish what they started. We will.
I thank God for placing such a treasure in the earth.
It is beautiful to see their legacies alive and well in their five children. As his eldest said, we must finish what they started. We will.
One of my closest friends and his dear wife recently passed away in a tragic accident. It’s a devastating loss.
They leave behind five sons ranging in age from 15-2. The family has organized a GoFundMe to support them. Please consider donating.
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They leave behind five sons ranging in age from 15-2. The family has organized a GoFundMe to support them. Please consider donating.
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Donate to Help us support the five Agbottah boys in their loss, organized by Allison Curseen
On Friday, April 25th Kwasi and Elizabeth (née Curseen) Agbottah … Allison Curseen needs your support for Help us support the five Agbottah boys in their loss
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April 29, 2025 at 11:06 PM
One of my closest friends and his dear wife recently passed away in a tragic accident. It’s a devastating loss.
They leave behind five sons ranging in age from 15-2. The family has organized a GoFundMe to support them. Please consider donating.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-su...
They leave behind five sons ranging in age from 15-2. The family has organized a GoFundMe to support them. Please consider donating.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-su...
Rest well friend. I will see you again…
April 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Rest well friend. I will see you again…