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Beatghoul ⑆⑇⑈⑉ @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 5h

Amiri Baraka reads "A Poem for Deep Thinkers," on March 22, 1977, at New College of California, San Francisco, presented in collaboration with The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University

Amiri Baraka, 1977, "A Poem for Deep Thinkers" at New College of California —The Poetry Center

YouTube video by Poetry Center Archive Goes Live!

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 6h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 8h

Here’s video of the incident

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14h

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal cuts

Thirty paintings by Bob Ross are set to be auctioned to support public television stations

abcnews.go.com

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Beatghoul ⑆⑇⑈⑉ @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 5h

LeRoi Jones / Amiri Baraka

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Beatghoul ⑆⑇⑈⑉ @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 5h

Leroi Jones, Philip Whalen, and Ray Bremser at reading at Princeton University, 1959

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Beatghoul ⑆⑇⑈⑉ @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 5h

LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) and Allen Ginsberg, 7 Arts Coffee Gallery, New York, New York, 1959.

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Beatghoul ⑆⑇⑈⑉ @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 5h

LeRoi Jones / Amiri Baraka

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Beatghoul ⑆⑇⑈⑉ @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 5h

BΞΛT HΞΛVΞN: Happy birthday to Black American writer, activist, poet, and playwright Amiri Baraka [LeRoi Jones]

October 7, 1934 – January 9, 2014

❝Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.❞‬

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Beatghoul ⑆⑇⑈⑉ @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 5h

Brandon Stanton’s 'Dear New York' Transforms Grand Central Terminal

The Creator of ‘Humans of New York’ Has Transformed All of Grand Central Into a Public Art Installation

Brandon Stanton’s Dear New York turns Grand Central into a vast public art installation celebrating the city’s people and stories.

www.artnews.com

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Beatghoul ⑆⑇⑈⑉ @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 5h

Seamus Heaney’s unpublished poems to be released — read one exclusively here

The Poems of Seamus Heaney, out on Thursday, will feature all 12 of the revered Irish author’s collections alongside uncollected works and 25 poems yet to be published

www.theguardian.com

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Beatghoul ⑆⑇⑈⑉ @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 5h

Ella Fitzgerald jailed for singing before integrated audience

1955: Ella Fitzgerald jailed for singing before integrated audience - Mississippi Today

On this day in 1955, Jazz legends Ella Fitzgerald and Dizzy Gillespie and others were arrested in Houston, Texas, after performing before an integrated audience.

mississippitoday.org

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Beatghoul ⑆⑇⑈⑉ @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 6h

October 7, 1955: Ella Fitzgerald, her assistant Georgina Henry, Illinois Jacquet, Dizzy Gillespie, and jazz impresario Norman Granz were arrested between sets of an integrated concert for “shooting dice” in Fitzgerald’s dressing room at the Music Hall in Houston, Texas

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Beatghoul ⑆⑇⑈⑉ @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 6h

Witches teach us how to push back — and raise hell — in the face of authoritarianism

Rebellion, Activism, Imagination: Why We Need Witches More Than Ever. - Reactor

Witches teach us how to push back — and raise hell — in the face of authoritarianism.

reactormag.com

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Beatghoul ⑆⑇⑈⑉ @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 6h

How months of harassment and racism at Carmel-by-the-Sea led Langston Hughes to write his landmark story collection The Ways of White Folks

Langston Hughes Wrote Fiction That Still Stings

How months of harassment and racism at Carmel-by-the-Sea led Langston Hughes to write his landmark story collection The Ways of White Folks.

www.altaonline.com

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Beatghoul ⑆⑇⑈⑉ @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 9h

Mindsquire Pranked America's Most Racist Town

We Pranked America's Most Racist Town

YouTube video by MindSquire

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Beatghoul ⑆⑇⑈⑉ @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 10h

Ask him. He's on Bsky.

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Beatghoul ⑆⑇⑈⑉ @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 11h

Solange Knowles is launching “The Saint Heron Digital Archive Library: Part I,” which will serve as a free digital archive, offering access to a curated collection of out-of-print and rare first-edition works by African-American writers.
cw39.com/news/solange...

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Beatghoul ⑆⑇⑈⑉ @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 12h

That is the goal.

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Beatghoul ⑆⑇⑈⑉ @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 13h

Patti Smith Horses Reviewed: Eternal punk rock masterpiece expanded

Punk poet’s landmark debut celebrates half a century with an expanded anniversary edition produced by bassist Tony Shanahan

Patti Smith Horses Review: An eternal masterpiece

Punk poet’s landmark 1975 debut celebrates half a century with an expanded anniversary edition. Read MOJO's review and the track listing in full.

www.mojo4music.com

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Beatghoul ⑆⑇⑈⑉ @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 13h

BREAKING: ICE Hunts Children in Twisted 'Freaky Friday' Operation

Operation targets unaccompanied children as young as 14 — with threats, bribes, and family arrests if they refuse to self-deport.

BREAKING: ICE Hunts Children in Twisted 'Freaky Friday' Operation

Operation targets unaccompanied children as young as 14 — with threats, bribes, and family arrests if they refuse to self-deport.

migrantinsider.com

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Beatghoul ⑆⑇⑈⑉ @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · Oct 7

Howard Zinn, James Baldwin, and a journalist on Freedom Day in Selma, Alabama, October 7, 1963.

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Beatghoul ⑆⑇⑈⑉ @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 13h

What Happened to Judee Sill? A Look at the Late Singer’s Life, Career and Untimely Death

A documentary about Judee Sill’s life, 'Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill,' released in theaters on April 12

www.yahoo.com

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Beatghoul ⑆⑇⑈⑉ @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 13h

Judee Sill ✺ The Pearl, 1973

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Beatghoul ⑆⑇⑈⑉ @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 13h

MUSIC HΞΛVΞN: Happy birthday to American singer-songwriter Judee Sill

October 7, 1944 – November 23, 1979

❝On phosphorus wings the Phoenix floated, the fires froze and the sea was hushed.❞

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Beatghoul ⑆⑇⑈⑉ @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 14h

The 'Punk in the Park' ethical dilemma: When punk's anti-establishment spirit funds a Trump supporter amid a Trump-sponsored ICE siege of Los Angeles and terrorizing of immigrant Brown communities. #music

Why Are My Favorite Punk Bands Playing a Trump Supporter's Festival? Why I'm Boycotting 'Punk in the Park' ~ L.A. TACO

The 'Punk in the Park' ethical dilemma: When punk's anti-establishment spirit funds a Trump supporter amid a Trump-sponsored ICE siege of Los Angeles and terrorizing of immigrant Brown communities.

lataco.com

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