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Urban Media Warrior
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Documentary Filmmaker, Media Educator, Director and Editor. UMW productions seeks to bring diverse ideas, unique voices and cultural expressions to the media marketplace. https://umwproductions.com/
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Facing federal hostility, supervised consumption site points to 1,900 overdose reversals www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/o... via @statnews.com
Facing federal hostility, supervised consumption site points to 1,900 overdose reversals
OnPoint, the nation's first supervised drug consumption site, vows to continue its approach to harm reduction.
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December 21, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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SCLC is Reviving Dr. King’s Movement for Today’s America
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SCLC is Reviving Dr. King’s Movement for Today’s America
How DeMark Liggins and the SCLC are building a new civil rights movement for a new generation.
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November 17, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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Films Ranked
Every Paul Thomas Anderson Movie, Ranked from Worst to Best — Including ‘One Battle After Another’
From "Hard Eight" to "Phantom Thread," Paul Thomas Anderson's filmography is bound together by a deep affection for broken people.
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September 27, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Assata Shakur and the Price of Freedom: The Name They Couldn’t Silence, How a Black Woman Became the World’s Most Watched and Most Wanted
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Assata Shakur and the Price of Freedom: The Name They Couldn’t Silence, How a Black Woman Became the World’s Most Watched and Most Wanted
They called her fugitive, militant, terrorist. Yet for generations of Black people, she was a teacher, a sister, a mirror. In Assata we saw the costs of resistance—
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September 27, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Will Trump’s New Terrorism Policy Target Black Activists?
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Will Trump’s New Terrorism Policy Target Black Activists?
From Bloody Sunday in Selma to Black Lives Matter protests in Ferguson, dissent has always been policed—now it could be branded terrorism.
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September 27, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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September 26, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Charlie Kirk Supporters Target HBCU, Promptly Removed from Campus
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Charlie Kirk Supporters Target HBCU, Promptly Removed from Campus
Students praised for restraint as group linked to Kirk movement stirs controversy
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September 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/te...
Tell Congress: Resist Trump and MAGA's Project 2025 every step of the way
We will resist Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans every day, starting now. We know what we’re up against. Trump and MAGA Republicans have already shown us their playbook. And Project 2025—their “180-d...
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September 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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When Truth Is Threatened: Why Black Media Matters More Than Ever
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When Truth Is Threatened: Why Black Media Matters More Than Ever
Trey Reed’s death and attacks on journalists expose a dangerous pattern—when power silences truth, Black-owned media must rise to tell the story.
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September 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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WaPo columnist Karen Attiah fired over social media posts
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WaPo columnist Karen Attiah fired over social media posts
She highlighted a "familiar pattern" of America shrugging off gun deaths, particularly when the violence is carried out by white men.
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September 16, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Thousands of Filmmakers Pledge to Boycott Israeli Cinema Institutions hyperallergic.com/1040468/film...
Thousands of Filmmakers Pledge to Boycott Israeli Cinema Institutions
“We as artists must decide whether our work will be used to mask violence or to challenge it,” said Sky Hopinka, one of the signatories along with Nan Goldin, Brian Eno, and others.
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September 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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'Are We Creating Critical Thinkers?' Historians Say Smithsonian Review Reflects Today's Anti-Intellectualism
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'Are We Creating Critical Thinkers?' Historians Say Smithsonian Review Reflects Today's Anti-Intellectualism
“We're in a very dangerous moment when everybody's considered an expert, where your training doesn't matter."
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September 4, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Who will solve Black cinema’s marketing crisis?
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Who will solve Black cinema’s marketing crisis?
… and other questions in my inbox on the 4th anniversary of Black Film Archive.
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August 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Race Against Time: How Katrina Exposed America’s Cruel System
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Race Against Time: How Katrina Exposed America’s Cruel System
The storm passed in days, but the displacement, trauma, and structural abandonment of New Orleans’ Black communities became a wound that still bleeds nearly two decades later.
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August 18, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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James Baldwin’s Fire Next Time: Truths We Can’t Ignore, Confronting America’s Truths and Lies
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James Baldwin’s Fire Next Time: Truths We Can’t Ignore, Confronting America’s Truths and Lies
Baldwin did not write to be polite; he wrote to save lives, starting with the truth. For Baldwin, love was inseparable from justice, and justice was impossible without truth.
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August 18, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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A Saturday Reid: The monsters are among us
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A Saturday Reid: The monsters are among us
Evil here ... evil there ... diabolical evil everywhere
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August 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Let’s Not Ever Forget To Remind America 🇺🇸 Of This! 👇🏼👇🏽👇🏾
August 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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TJRS: The maps tell the story of Texas' racist gerrymander ploy
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TJRS: The maps tell the story of Texas' racist gerrymander ploy
State Rep Jolanda Jones came to The Joy Reid Show with RECEIPTS ... namely, the maps
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August 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans?
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Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans?
4 Films to Remember pre-Katrina New Orleans By 20 Years After the Storm + MoMA Film Series
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August 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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August 8, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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SCOTUS to decide if Black representation matters in Congress
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SCOTUS to decide if Black representation matters in Congress
With Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act under review, Black lawmakers across the South could see their districts erased.
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August 9, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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SCOTUS to decide if Black representation matters in Congress
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SCOTUS to decide if Black representation matters in Congress
With Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act under review, Black lawmakers across the South could see their districts erased.
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August 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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August 4, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Rev. Al Sharpton: "Hope Won’t Help" in Trump’s America
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Rev. Al Sharpton: "Hope Won’t Help" in Trump’s America
Voices of the New Civil Rights Movement: A Four-Week Series for The Black Wall Street Times
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August 3, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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This is how you do it. You win with the turnout you create, not by just appealing to the people who always turn out.
aaronnarraph.bsky.social aaron from queens from twitter @aaronnarraph.bsky.social · Aug 2
Zohran didn't win by relying on standard turnout patterns. We had to fundamentally transform the Democratic electorate.

I was part of a group of NYC-DSA members that applied lessons from our previous campaigns to design the “universe” of voters to talk to. Here's how we won 🧵
August 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM