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Diaspora daughter.
Mother of Ravens.
Dragonslayer, emerita.
Watching and waiting….
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Mother of Ravens.
Dragonslayer, emerita.
Watching and waiting….
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As the storm pummeled Jamaica, it brought the strongest hurricane wind speed to make landfall in 90 years. With it came catastrophic floods, landslides, and a sea surge up to 13 feet along the island’s southern coast. https://capitalbnews.org/hurricane-melissa-jamaica-impact/
Jamaican Americans Mobilize After the Island's Worst Hurricane in a Century
It is unknown how long it could take the island to recover from the storm, one of the strongest storms on record in the Atlantic.
capitalbnews.org
November 2, 2025 at 11:15 AM
As the storm pummeled Jamaica, it brought the strongest hurricane wind speed to make landfall in 90 years. With it came catastrophic floods, landslides, and a sea surge up to 13 feet along the island’s southern coast. https://capitalbnews.org/hurricane-melissa-jamaica-impact/
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A message from Mayor Freddie O’Connell and Nancy Keil Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle TN President & CEO on the launch of the Hunger Can’t Wait campaign, a response to the loss of SNAP benefits by thousands of Nashvillians due to the federal government shutdown. Visit Nashville.gov/food for more.
October 31, 2025 at 4:40 PM
A message from Mayor Freddie O’Connell and Nancy Keil Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle TN President & CEO on the launch of the Hunger Can’t Wait campaign, a response to the loss of SNAP benefits by thousands of Nashvillians due to the federal government shutdown. Visit Nashville.gov/food for more.
painfully true.
Career public service employees & highly-educated public servants assumed people knew the difference between federal, state & local government, or even between executive & legislative. They had little idea people didn’t know what was controlled by nonprofits or businesses, not by government at all.
September 4, 2025 at 3:53 AM
painfully true.
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Sometimes it's 3-5 Business Weeks depending on the gathering
Introverts don’t recharge with sleep, we recharge by being left completely alone for 3–5 business days
September 2, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Sometimes it's 3-5 Business Weeks depending on the gathering
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A system cannot fail those it was never built to protect.
— W.E.B. DuBois
— W.E.B. DuBois
August 30, 2025 at 7:16 AM
A system cannot fail those it was never built to protect.
— W.E.B. DuBois
— W.E.B. DuBois
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This is profoundly bad. The data generated by NASA feeds research in many, MANY disciplines. I, for instance, am a historian, and my dissertation (now book project) uses satellite imagery as a major source for exploring the historical relationship between people and the environment.
NASA’s acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agency arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
NASA’s acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agency
NASA’s charter clearly states the agency should study planet Earth, however.
arstechnica.com
August 16, 2025 at 4:37 PM
This is profoundly bad. The data generated by NASA feeds research in many, MANY disciplines. I, for instance, am a historian, and my dissertation (now book project) uses satellite imagery as a major source for exploring the historical relationship between people and the environment.
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put street trees everywhere you can in a neighborhood, make curb cuts so that their roots can absorb storm water from the street, grow native plants around their base, check back in five years and count how many welfare and health measures have improved
Rule 78: Put Street Trees Almost Everywhere
Street trees do it all, they...
Cut crashes by 45%
Raise home values 9%
Boost retail sales 12%
Clean air, cool streets, absorb stormwater, improve health, and make places more inviting
Walkable City Rules www.amazon.com/Walkable-Cit...
Street trees do it all, they...
Cut crashes by 45%
Raise home values 9%
Boost retail sales 12%
Clean air, cool streets, absorb stormwater, improve health, and make places more inviting
Walkable City Rules www.amazon.com/Walkable-Cit...
August 17, 2025 at 3:01 AM
put street trees everywhere you can in a neighborhood, make curb cuts so that their roots can absorb storm water from the street, grow native plants around their base, check back in five years and count how many welfare and health measures have improved
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Challenge: post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hellhole it is.
August 12, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Challenge: post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hellhole it is.
Good morning!
Painting of the Day. The Flutist V
> > www.artcameroon.com/painting/the...
Dazzling bright art print made of a painting from Central Africa depicting a flutist and singer. The artist, Angu Walters, also belongs to a band and often paints musicians. Here is a painting so sparkling it sings.
$110
> > www.artcameroon.com/painting/the...
Dazzling bright art print made of a painting from Central Africa depicting a flutist and singer. The artist, Angu Walters, also belongs to a band and often paints musicians. Here is a painting so sparkling it sings.
$110
July 28, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Good morning!
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#OtD 25 Jul 1972 the Washington Star broke the story of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, a horrific and unethical 40-year study of poor Black agricultural workers in Alabama who had syphilis but were not informed or treated stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9751...
July 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
#OtD 25 Jul 1972 the Washington Star broke the story of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, a horrific and unethical 40-year study of poor Black agricultural workers in Alabama who had syphilis but were not informed or treated stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9751...
Required reading.
Immediately.
Immediately.
July 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Required reading.
Immediately.
Immediately.
Good morning!🌅
Good Morning Beautiful Black People. 😌💜
(If you like/repost without speaking, we will have a problem 🤨)
(If you like/repost without speaking, we will have a problem 🤨)
July 22, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Good morning!🌅
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The Cambridge elements series ‘Philosophy of Biology’ includes short, accessible books by experts. Everything from humans to slime moulds, selection to minds.
And they’re all free to read and download this week! 🧪📚
And they’re all free to read and download this week! 🧪📚
Philosophy of Biology
Welcome to Cambridge Core
cup.org
July 21, 2025 at 8:04 AM
The Cambridge elements series ‘Philosophy of Biology’ includes short, accessible books by experts. Everything from humans to slime moulds, selection to minds.
And they’re all free to read and download this week! 🧪📚
And they’re all free to read and download this week! 🧪📚
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Clifton was born on June 27, 1936, and the first day of programming began on that anniversary. baltimorebeat.com/all-of-my-bo...
July 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Clifton was born on June 27, 1936, and the first day of programming began on that anniversary. baltimorebeat.com/all-of-my-bo...
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Bennie Brown is training up a new generation of farmers in the Mississippi Delta by reviving a 1870s concept established by the Swan Lake Association.
In the Mississippi Delta, Black Farmers Are Rebuilding the Legacy of Land Ownership
They are reviving the mission of an association of Black churches that fed and educated Black families after the Civil War.
capitalbnews.org
July 14, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Bennie Brown is training up a new generation of farmers in the Mississippi Delta by reviving a 1870s concept established by the Swan Lake Association.
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I’m assuming you’ve seen this site that lets you scroll into the depths, with the creatures at each depth… but in case you haven’t, I highly recommend it neal.fun/deep-sea/
The Deep Sea
Scroll down the deep sea in this interactive page.
neal.fun
July 13, 2025 at 4:02 AM
I’m assuming you’ve seen this site that lets you scroll into the depths, with the creatures at each depth… but in case you haven’t, I highly recommend it neal.fun/deep-sea/
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Beneath the blazing sun, Black Phoenix sows community
Climate change is creating a mental health crisis in Phoenix. A budding movement in the desert might solve it.
www.hcn.org/issues/57-7/...
Climate change is creating a mental health crisis in Phoenix. A budding movement in the desert might solve it.
www.hcn.org/issues/57-7/...
Beneath the blazing sun, Black Phoenix sows community - High Country News
Climate change is creating a mental health crisis in Phoenix. A budding movement in the desert might solve it.
www.hcn.org
July 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Beneath the blazing sun, Black Phoenix sows community
Climate change is creating a mental health crisis in Phoenix. A budding movement in the desert might solve it.
www.hcn.org/issues/57-7/...
Climate change is creating a mental health crisis in Phoenix. A budding movement in the desert might solve it.
www.hcn.org/issues/57-7/...
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Where you live still plays a deadly role in Black life expectancy. Could a free online tool, the Zip Code Exam, help change that?
wordinblack.com/2025/06/key-...
wordinblack.com/2025/06/key-...
The Key to Longevity? Your ZIP Code
Where you live still plays a deadly role in Black life expectancy. Could a free online tool, the Zip Code Exam, help change that?
wordinblack.com
July 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Where you live still plays a deadly role in Black life expectancy. Could a free online tool, the Zip Code Exam, help change that?
wordinblack.com/2025/06/key-...
wordinblack.com/2025/06/key-...
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Justices Sotomayor and Brown-Jackson have such a DEEPLY TOXIC work environment.
I sincerely hope they have the support they need in this moment.
They worked their entire lives for this opportunity, only to have the (always complicated) Court become…this.
I see and respect their efforts.
I sincerely hope they have the support they need in this moment.
They worked their entire lives for this opportunity, only to have the (always complicated) Court become…this.
I see and respect their efforts.
June 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Justices Sotomayor and Brown-Jackson have such a DEEPLY TOXIC work environment.
I sincerely hope they have the support they need in this moment.
They worked their entire lives for this opportunity, only to have the (always complicated) Court become…this.
I see and respect their efforts.
I sincerely hope they have the support they need in this moment.
They worked their entire lives for this opportunity, only to have the (always complicated) Court become…this.
I see and respect their efforts.
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A really good question. The discipline of philosophy gatekeeps what can be designated as philosophy & who can be a philosopher to be limited to affiliation with academic programs in white supremacist Eurocentric sexist lineages. I choose to own myself as a philosopher with only a masters in it.
"So what might have changed if thinkers like Baldwin had been recognized as philosophers, not just commentators? If philosophy departments taught Baldwin’s meditations on identity and freedom alongside Locke and Rousseau,..."
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
Why aren’t great Black thinkers called philosophers?
“Philosophy has long positioned itself as the domain of pure reason, supposedly above the fray of politics and identity. But scratch the surface, and the bias becomes clear,” Justin Ray writes.
www.sfchronicle.com
June 21, 2025 at 4:51 PM
A really good question. The discipline of philosophy gatekeeps what can be designated as philosophy & who can be a philosopher to be limited to affiliation with academic programs in white supremacist Eurocentric sexist lineages. I choose to own myself as a philosopher with only a masters in it.
This.
This is your reminder that nothing human-made is inevitable and you hereby have all the permission you need to reject bad/harmful social, technological, and political paradigms and to work toward something better.
June 20, 2025 at 11:53 PM
This.
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Nice, right across the street from Waverly farmers market if you happen to find yourself in Baltimore on a Saturday morning
In a fascinating twist, we're on USA Today's 10 best indie bookstores list! What a thing! Cheers to all of the bookstores we're on this list with!
June 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Nice, right across the street from Waverly farmers market if you happen to find yourself in Baltimore on a Saturday morning
Thank you!!!
If you have Prime and are an Erykah Badu fan, you might want to light some incense and go watch right now. Live show’s about to start, 😃.
June 20, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Thank you!!!