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#BereavedMom w surviving daughter, #Birds 🌱Fungi; ⭐Co-Director @fotmproject ⭐ | incoming Asst Prof #EnvJustice UNC-Charlotte| VOTE 💙
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I’m sorry y’all but we can’t go back.
I may soft block ppl who wish to speak against Kamala.
My commitment is to my ancestors.
It’s nice knowing y’all but this is the fork in the road where we part.
Goodbye.
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@vivianplee
@Phil_Lewis_
same. Rest in Peace Jim Redmond. The entire world witnessed the love you have for your son. No one will forget.
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There is an attack on the humanities and social sciences. Embedded within is the motivation to destroy human empathy and emotional connections to the environment. This is part of a larger apparatus that privileges extraction and exploitation. Pay attention.
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@StevenPargett
Reminds me of when I worked as a seasonal park ranger at George Washington Carver and the only people who had to work on MLK day was me, the other black ranger (we were the only two black folk out of 17 staff), and the lone liberal maintenance mechanic. Everybody else was off.
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Today you would have turned 18 had still been here on Earth. But you’re in Heaven. My devotion to celebrating my son’s life continues, beyond the realms.
Happy Heavenly Birthday my son.
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I can now announce my daughter's achievement with Converse.
My daughter, Chastity created designs for the 2024 Converse Black Joy Collection.
I am very proud of her determination and tenacity! Big thanks to Converse for believing in her ability!
#BHM
#BlackFutures
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I hope that people know that several scholars who the College Board entrusted to create the curriculum balked at the proposed changes.
I hope people know that these orgs move in interests of money and bc of that, did not heed the warnings of those scholars.
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Everyone, I’m pleased to announce that I have officially accepted an offer as a TT Assistant Professor of Human Geography in the Department of Geosciences w/a joint appt. in African American Studies at Mississippi State University effective August 16.
I’m thrilled!
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Your brain on grief: procrastination, disorganized thinking, PTSD-induced mental paralysis, and brain fog.
It can take years before one feels productive again.
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Already good people. I am headed to bed. Tomorrow I defend my dissertation! Wish me good vibes!
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@AnneWheaton
Lovely! Here is the bobcat I saw when I was in Arizona in late January at Sweetwater Wetlands. It had not a care in the world.
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About that announcement— my closest friends and mentors already know.
But it’s official: I will join the faculty of UNC Charlotte as an Assistant Professor of Environmental Justice in the Dept of History.
Extremely grateful!
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Before Defense.
After defense.
PASSED! ~ with revisions
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What if I told you that one of my contracts just got back to me the same day I graduated with my PhD and we are having a zoom meet on Friday to discuss how my findings on the Underground Railroad can help make the Great Dismal Swamp a National Heritage Area?
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My favorite photo of my late son Ricky Dawkins, Jr is where he is dressed as Aaron Douglas. This was a project he had to do for his 8th grade history class on famous Nebraskans. Like Douglas, my son was an artist. This photo is one of the few I can view without falling apart.
Aaron Douglas (1899–1979) was an American painter, illustrator & visual arts educator.He was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance and developed his art career painting murals and creating illustrations that addressed social issues around race and segregation in the USA
🎨1935
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Not a day goes by that my heart does not yearn for my son. This is a self-portrait he did of himself using stippling technique. I love you my son.
#HeavenChild
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@mia_tretta
@drfarmertx
@BrownUniversity
You are a generous soul to carry Dominic's spirit with you as you make your many accomplishments through life. As a mother to a child in Heaven, who also passed away at 14, this is very affirming. Sending you care and strength in your academic journey.
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My birthday is today. I turn 43. Grateful to God that I’m here, despite it all.
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My name is Christy Hyman and I am a Geographer and future Assistant Professor of Human Geography at Mississippi State University starting 8/16/22
I love being in the woods, swamps, desert, and oceans.
#BlackInEnvironRollCall
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International Bereaved Mother's Day is a day of remembrance and support for mothers who have lost a child, and it is observed on the first Sunday of May each year.
I continue carrying my life forward, holding my son's beautiful memory close, planting seeds of legacy.
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It is
#InternationalBereavedMothersDay
. It is the Sunday before the official Mothers Day.
Today I stand as a witness with my fellow bereaved mothers, in testimony of the love, devotion, and legacy that keep us as we grieve. I love you my Dear Ricky. Always.
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The day has arrived. I am in disbelief that I got this far in the wake of so much grief. But it was that pain that motivated to push through grief brain fog, to remained determined, to advocate for myself in order to get to this day.
#UNL
#GoBigGrad
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I will speak. As a person descended from sharecroppers from N.C. on one side and Gullah oyster shellers on another I can say that in these academic streets USian blackness is devalued and that needs to stop. The Ivy League is complicit in catering to "exotic blackness" bc it
Folks. If you are in an Africana Studies Department in the United States and you find chauvenistic actions being committed toward African Americans take a step back and ask if it is hemispheric blackness or is it plain old hatred of USian blackness.
Let's keep it real.
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My beautiful and kind soul, my son, my younger child ascended to Heaven on this day two years ago. I’m here on the gulfshore making space for this solemn remembrance. It is my intense love,my commitment to legacy, the support of my parents & trusted friends who have kept me❤️🕊
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Successfully negotiated my resource and salary needs to new to me dept head today.
Time for my brewsky.
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All I’m pleased to announce that I will be headed to Ithaca soon to take on a role with
@fotmproject
as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell.
I’m currently working out a leave process with my current institution.
I’m delighted to be doing this work!
I want to thank Dr. Ed Baptist+
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TY to the scholars who established this open letter. Please know that those of us in African American/Africana/Black Studies departments/programs agree. Open Letter In Defense of AP African American Studies by African American Studies Faculty in Higher Ed
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In eleven days it will be my son’s birthday in Heaven. I’ve purposely made myself be in motion up to the day. Despite the constant motion, grief is still there. If it doesn’t get me in my waking hours it gets me in my sleep. This is the grievers life. But we try to keep going.🕊
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Had you lived, you would turn 17 years old today. Your physical presence may not be seen on Earth, but your Spirit is very near and it shines a bright light reminiscent of your joyful aura. I love you Ricky. And I celebrate that you are my son. Happy Birthday.🕊️
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I am on the verge of tears. I had not checked my son's memorial scholarship fund donations in a year.
Then I see this donation from the Herbert and Marion Weston Foundation recently.
The love that this org has shown my son through this legacy over the last 3 yrs. God be PRAISED!
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There is a great deal of policing in academia.
As a griever who talks openly loss I sometimes feel like ppl may view my testimony as “attention-seeking”but after the pain I’ve endured I care nothing about the opinions of naysayers. My legacy building for my son is more important
a tenured professor said I was writing about my experience w bipolar / severe depression my first year as an assistant prof. for attention.
it’s because I’m back on my feet that I’m advocating for other people in the academy navigating this, because it was life or death for me.
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December 5 is here! Happy birthday to my firstborn child Chastity: artist, humanitarian, college graduate (BFA, studio art ‘22). I love her very much. She has fun plans for herself today in her new home of Eugene, OR. Here she is in year 2000🤩. She turns 24 today.Grateful.
My daughter's birthday is December 5. I already ordered a custom-made cake from a local bakery in Eugene, Oregon where she lives so she and her friends there can feast on it on her special day. She will turn 24.
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Why am I smiling so hard? It’s because my artist daughter has some great news!!
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@Dr_AlexM
@Airbnb
@AirbnbHelp
I am so sorry this is happening to you. I had an unpleasant AirBnB experience but it did not get to this level of harm. These hosts are very, very entitled and uncaring. I will never use AirBnB again. Ever!
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There are many dimensions to my world. This is one of my brothers Lawrence Hyman. He means a lot to me. He is autistic nonverbal & our family has gone thru a lot to advocate for him+ others in my NC hometown so that quality care is provided to ppl w special needs. It’s his Bday🎂
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I have some nice news to share. Some remember that in 2019 I commissioned my daughter Chastity to paint a depiction of Moses Grandy providing his testimony to George Donisthorpe Thompson, abolitionist/amanuensis.
Well yesterday Life Magazine contacted me to use that image.
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My surviving child, my daughter Chastity graduated in December of 2022 from
#UNL
w/a BFA in Art.
Today she drives to her new home in Eugene, Oregon. Send travel mercies. Grateful for her supporters on here.
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I think back sometimes to people who clearly did not think my work was useful as a PhD student when I wanted to amplify the life of Moses Grandy and the descendants.
Some rejected my early work on this topic!
So glad I ventured out!
And phew I am writing a book!
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Happy Birthday to Hilary Green!!
Professor, Historian, mentor to many, cultural worker, heritage curator and my treasured friend.
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Happy that my trade book, "Celebratory Distinction: How a Coalition of Communities Redefined the Legacy of the Great Dismal Swamp", will soon be under contract with Hamilton Books, an imprint of
@RLPGBooks
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It’s a zoom job talk/interview . I’m a finalist.
Laters!
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Teaching in costume today. Nyota
Uhura.
Long live the memory of Nichelle Nichols who pioneered so much in this landmark portrayal of a black woman communications officer in outer space.
#StarTrek
#Halloween
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I would like to take a moment to life up Dr. Wilma King. Not only was she a foundational historian who reshifted how we understand enslavement, she is also a friend to my family. Her late husband Al and my children spent much time together when they lived in Columbia, MO. When
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All of my love…
You are remembered dear son🕊.
Laurinburg, NC 2010.
My daughter and my son(now an Angel).
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Happy 17th Birthday in Heaven Dear Son, I love you
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Speaking of art, my artist daughter has a print for sale!
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Getting undergrads up at 7:45am to do a cultural immersion in the rain at the Great Dismal Swamp? New level of outdoor educational outreach unlocked🙌🏾
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Grief tweet:
At my parents house in NC is my Angelson’s memorial live oak. My father planted it on my son’s first heavenly bday March 11, 2021.
My mother has tended to it along with her garden.
Last night I dreamed of my son. We were sitting in the car looking at birds.
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The best thing I did in 2023 was relocate to Ithaca, New York and experience life in a place where people love birds and believe in eco-restorative land stewardship
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@DigitalHistory_
You are a wonderful and devoted friend to lift them up and their names and their Loved Ones. The sorrow is unspeakable; the courage to speak their names honors their lives. ❤️
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My fall speaking circuit begins at Alfred University on tomorrow at noon.
Fingerlakes, NY come thru!
I will present on research I am doing for book 2, "Transmigratory Drift: The Unified Realities of Birds, Fugitives, and Freedpeople"
Special thanks to Prof. Frederic Beaudry!
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Absolutely breathtaking rendering of James Baldwin by Khalid Thompson.
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A happy birthday to one of my brothers, Lawrence who taught me from an early age the importance of autism awareness. Lawrence is autistic nonverbal. Here he is with my father and my daughter (she was 4) in 2005 in Myrtle Beach, SC.
Shortly after this photo was taken
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My trade book contract is official.
And my other other book which is under consideration with an academic press has two chapters going out tonight to the editor. Grateful to do this work.
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No one works harder than Professor Hilary Green!
@HilaryGreen77
congrats on an action packed conference day and poignant remarks at the
@ASALH
plenary!
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I am actually quite proud of this. I like how the leaf litter contrasts with the fungi.
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In more scholarly news, I received word from the editors of Southern Cultures that my piece on birding, grief, and refuge was accepted for the online edition after I make some revisions.
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July is Bereaved parent month and here is my amazing
#AngelSon
Ricky who lights my path every step of the way. I love you forever and NO ONE will prevent me from honoring your memory!
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Grateful for my parents who have stuck by my two children and me all through life and loss.
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Hello my Middletown, Connecticut friends, I’ll be at Wesleyan University October 26-28 discussing my research. Big thanks to
@foramsraqu
for inviting me. Come through!
#blackgeographies
#criticalGIS
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My first official day as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell is not until July 1, however I’m writing two books so the History department was kind enough to loan me space until my official start date. McGraw Hall is such a stately building.
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I almost fainted as we waited to board the plane back to the U.S today in Costa Rica. A grief wave hit that had been suppressed by travel panic/frenzy/logistics.
I love you always my son.
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I didn’t talk about it but I lost my cat Woody this week. Those who’ve followed my grief journey know that I adopted Woody, a senior cat who was 13, after I lost my son. I told myself I would do good works in my sons name. My son loved cats.
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Me at age 32. The year was 2012 and I was in my hometown in N.C. with my two children then.
After the passing of my son, it was very difficult for me to look at old pictures of myself.
Gradually things change in terms of old photos and memory.
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HOLY SH*T I just helped the Northern Cardinal pair protect their eggs from a snake crawling up the tree near my side door. They were vocalizing like crazy in a way I never heard so I looked and saw they were trying to run off the snake. I threw a roll of duct tape at it and
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Happy 18th Birthday in Heaven My Son
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May at least one person in your department show grace and welcoming by inviting you to tea or coffee.
In my first year at MS State no one did.
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You might be wondering why I unlocked my account. It’s bc my daughter turns 23 tomorrow!
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Interesting.
To be informed that a large department voted unanimously to hire you and then to think back to the Deep South R1, my first TT job right after PhD, it seemed only 3 ppl wanted me- the dean, the dept head (at least at that time, lol), and the Righteous Marxist.
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I realized that I did not post an update on my son's Memorial Live Oak in Laurinburg.
Before I left on April 21, I took this photo.
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So nice to see
@historying
and I's work in the March issue of
@JCWE1
! We hope you enjoy it.
spoiler: there are a lot of
#twitterstorians
in this one!
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The Cornell President has announced a resignation effective June 30.
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hi all, I wonder who else at
#aag2023
is deeply troubled by the venue being in Hawaii next year?
I personally cannot attend since I have known for a few years that Native Hawaiians do not want tourism.
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Thanks to these two Good Samaritans I made it safely to Hemingway, SC. Ran out of fuel in remote area where AAA had no available drivers. After 2 hours of waiting the samaritans appeared.
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Dr. Hunter did not institute a pile-on at all. If you read her TL she is very, very measured. Always has been. You all are mixing her up with another person who is very strident in their takedowns of citational erasure. Not Dr. Hunter though. Always calm and cool as a cucumber.
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Really proud of my daughter Chastity for landing a position as a Collections Assistant for the Great Plains Art Museum. This is her senior year in her BFA Studio Art program, so this work experience is really meaningful.
This is her and some of her recent art. Big thanks
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Sending care to those who may be alone, feeling alienated, or sad today.
Last year when I was in MS I was in a very anguished state with grief, seasonal affect, and a difficult adjustment to Starkville.
This year I’m in a place that aligns more with my values and pace of life.
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I better go birding this morning to set a good tone for the day.
Ricky's Heavenly birthday is tomorrow and I am at a conference supporting friends and colleagues.
I will head to Fayetteville this afternoon to pick up his cake and drive down to my parent's house early a.m Sat.
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I am waking up in Virginia to the news that one of my earliest
#DH
supporter, Angel David Nieves, has passed away this week.
My good friend
@dorothyk98
made the announcement.
I want to begin by saying that Nieves is one of the few powerhouses in DH that affirmed my early ideas.
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Cheers to the grievers holding it down today.
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Happy to report that my daughter Chastity has found a buyer for her senior capstone piece, Paradise.
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Wishing my daughter an amazing fall break. Here is her latest artwork which is a meetup of the characters she drew this year. It was quite something: FKA Twigs and Tyler the Creator (among others) gave their accolades. Chastity Hyman UNL ‘22
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@profblmkelley
I am so glad someone said this. People who are experiencing profound hopelessness are not always "saved" by a phone call or a text. It is a sad reality. There needs to be a focus on making this world less horrible, less hateful.
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I say goodbye to VA tomorrow. Back to my FOREVER home Ithaca in the a.m. I return to Hampton Roads area next fall to give book readings in Williamsburg VA & at the Great Dismal Swamp Refuge. The Wilderness Society is also supportive. Book tour is shaping up!
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#BlackBirdersWeek
, I’m Christy I am an asst. proff of human/hist geography in a geosciences in MS on leave for a postdoc fell’ship at Cornell. I’m a bereaved mom who came into birding after the loss of my child. Birding means so much to me, it helps me heal.
#BBW23Rollcall
Today is the first day of
#BlackBirdersWeek
.
@BlackAFinSTEM
invites Black people who have an interest in or passion for STEM fields, nature and the outdoors, and conservation as it relates to birds to join their
#BBW23RollCall
. Tune in all week:
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New Faculty Orientation today. Dressed for success💪🏾
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MothersDay is how for the bereaved.
I pulled myself out of bed after feeling disconnected, numb, listless to put on my brightest dress. Then my daughter came w these flowers for me and my favorite Italian soda.
It’s a tough day, but acts of kindness and love make it tolerable.
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The NYTimes has a wider reach than other outlets. But people involved have the receipts.
Before you open your mouth to criticize certain black scholars you need to first go to the head of these orgs.
Because the scholars are the ones who made the ORIGINAL curriculum.
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Some of you are aware that my daughter Chass is a senior in college studying art (she graduates this year). This is her latest piece titled "Camp Counselors" inspired by Tyler the Creator's promo poster from the Wolf album.
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