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108 years ago today Harriet Tubman passed away. This photo is from her funeral. She is buried in Auburn, NY.
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This photo made me happy this morning. Bridesmaids in Harlem. 1983. Photographer unknown.
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From the New Yorker. Etta James: "I remember running into Sarah Vaughan, who always intimidated me. Sarah said, ‘Have you heard of this Aretha Franklin girl?’ I said, ‘You heard her do ‘Skylark,’ didn’t you?’ Sarah said, ‘Yes, I did, and I’m never singing that song again.’ ”
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Amadou Diallo was murdered by the NYPD 18 years ago today. Shot at 41 times. Hit 19 times. A photo I took at his funeral. RIP.
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106 years ago today Harriet Tubman passed away. A photo of her funeral. She is buried in Auburn, NY.
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Lavar Burton as the new Jeopardy host would be great. Whoever thought of that is brilliant. I can’t imagine a better choice.
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Harriet Tubman died 110 years ago today in Auburn, NY (on a piece of land she owned.) Here’s a photo of her funeral some days later.
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My friend just sent me video from Ntozake Shange’s funeral. They danced. How beautiful.
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A Black woman clmbing the Statue of Liberty on the 4th of July to protest injustice is just spectacular in all the best ways. Love it.
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A photograph I took at the funeral of Amadou Diallo in 1999. This photo breaks my heart and my heart breaks further thinking that nothing has changed. I hope that social media can amplify the issue of police brutality so loudly that no one can turn away.
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Growing up I was told that if I ever needed help, never go to the house flying the American flag.
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Amadou Diallo was murdered by the NYPD 16 years ago today. Hit 19 times. Shot at 41 times. A photo I took. RIP.
http://t.co/Msqe9H35Lf
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The protocol in Korea is next level. Someone on my friend’s flight to Seoul came down with a fever two days after landing. My friend got a text to report for testing. Everyone on the flight was tested. Results in two days.
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Once the hilarious absurdity of Conway making up the Bowling Green Massacre wears off, consider how deeply disturbing her fiction is.
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I post this every year on Christmas Eve because it is beautiful and it was taken on Christmas Eve in 1963. I think it is the most tender photo I have ever seen. Their body language tells a very sweet story. Photo by Malian photographer Malick Sidibé.
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Now that Jonathan Majors has your attention on the beefcake tip, check him out in The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019). He’s excellent in it. It’s one of my favorite movies of the last 5 years. Very tender.
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I’m in San Francisco for Kehinde Wiley’s show at the de Young. Do not miss it. It really is glorious.
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@orang3_aura
Strawberries because they stay lying about how good they taste. Beautiful but usually pretty much void of taste unless you catch the right one on the right day in the right country on the right planet. And even then you gotta add sugar. Lol
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Sun Ra welcomes you to the first day of spring. May it be a portal to all things beautiful for you.
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Music debate that I love to have: People fighting me when I say that James Brown is the most important artist ever in Black music. (And when ppl jump in with MJ for instance that just proves they don’t shit about the history of Black music. 😂)
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104 years ago today Harriet Tubman passed away. She is buried in Auburn, NY. A photo of her funeral.
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Wealth is often mistaken for competence, particularly among those who've inherited wealth.
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Barbara Streisand getting the epic side eye from a Masai woman in the '70s.
http://t.co/IkhEwKvaoo
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White privilege and institutional racism at work: I just witnessed a white guy in his 20s jump the turnstile in the subway. A cop gave him a short and quiet lecture and let him go. I have seen them ticket/embarrass Black families because one child slipped under the turnstile.
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Amadou Diallo was murdered by the NYPD 20 years ago today. Shot at 41 times. Hit 19 times. A photo I took at his funeral. RIP.
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Black rage scares those in power bc they know it's justified and -if it's focussed- could tear the already tattered fabric of this nation.
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I took a flight into NYC from Mexico last night. On the plane we filled out a form with questions about possible exposure to the coronavirus virus. We landed and no one collected the forms or did any screening. Exiting the airport was easier than normal. What’s going on NYC???
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Food and Wine ran this story. I immediately doubted that the world’s oldest restaurant is in Europe. Anyway a friend immediately pointed out that there’s a restaurant in Japan open since 1465. Whiteness centering itself falsely is TIRED.
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I laughed SO hard when I saw this. A woman thought she won a Toyota but she actually won a toy Yoda. Hilarious.
http://t.co/vPLmdkm65t
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Harriet Tubman’s body being carried from the AME Zion Church in Auburn, NY. March 13, 1913.
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Chris Rock didn’t flinch. Impressive. Amazing self control. I’m not there.
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😂😂 In classic Etta James fashion she also said about Aretha’s version of Skylark: “In the second verse, Franklin jumps an octave. ‘I had to scratch my head and ask myself, How the fuck did that bitch do that?’”
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Dorothy Ashby played the harp beautifully. Some Australian guy on IG took her music, added a kid stuttering over it, showed a light skinned Latina playing the harp and didn’t credit Ashby. He’s now sorry that his sponsored post appeared on my page. 😐
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If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it. --Zora Neale Hurston
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The bar is so low in the conversation about race that people are labeled "progressive" for even admitting that a problem exists.
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I just heard a man say in a completely conversational tone, “Matter fact I got some bread for you.” I glanced over and he was talking to a lone pigeon.
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Someone made the point that good cops are judged wrongly on their uniform. How do you think it feels to be judged wrongly on your skin?
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Here are the three of them in 1963, the year Aretha released Skylark.
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In case you haven't noticed it's open season on Black people. We're being hunted -literally- by people whose salaries we pay.
#shawshooting
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Considering all the criticism about saggy pants, it's hilariously ironic that a Black kid would get arrested for buying a belt.
#CantWin
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Telling a little girl, "He's mean to you because he likes you" should be followed up with "and stay as far away from him as possible."
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105 years ago today Harriet Tubman passed away. This is her funeral. She’s buried in Auburn, NY.
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The tall woman is taking me to Palenque in the next couple of days. Palenque is the first free African town in the Americas. I rolled up like I want to see Palenque but I don’t want to go on a tour bus. Plus I want to chill a couple of days. She was like bet I’ll guide you.
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My aunt died. She was living in a house that’s been passed down through generations. Alone I’m cleaning out generations of stuff. The woman next door called my cousin and said, “I know she’s your relative but she was my friend and I deserve first dibs on what’s in the house.” 🫠
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It’s taken me years to muster the courage to address this: What’s up with putting the shells of used eggs back into the carton and then back into the fridge?? I try not to judge but this seems like a major character flaw. ;)
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Tell me if I have this right. Two white women adopted several black children then eventually drove the entire family off a cliff?
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Jazz heads. I was thinking last night and wondering why very rarely do I hear people express love for Wynton Marsalis as musician…He’s the most famous jazz musician of his generation and his name doesn’t come up that often when it’s time to name faves.
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My lovely friends who I introduced got married in Cartagena, Colombia yesterday. We all had the best time! And just look at them. :)))
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat. - James Baldwin
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I went to an exhibit of 50 years of Hip Hop photography. OutKast by Timothy White. Look how young they are. :)
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At a party yearsssss ago my friend told me about an idea she had. Tonight that idea appears on Netflix as a fully realized film! Check out The Forty-Year-Old Version written and directed by Radha Blank. :)))
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Deeply embedded within the American psyche is the idea that Black people are supposed to quietly accept whatever abuse we are given.
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(Inside thought:Jay-Z’s attempted appropriation of Basquiat’s image/spirit is annoying/juvenile.)
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Andre Leon Talley and me in Lagos together for fashion week in April 2019. Rest In Peace you ultra fabulous human being. This makes me sad. So brilliant. So alive. So sharp. And so knowledgeable. :((((
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So the racists out there are facing a big dilemma: Do they start Indiegogos, etc. for the Black cops indicted in Baltimore?
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Because Trump didn't pull down his pants & piss on the podium Oprah says, "Everyone can breathe a sigh of relief." Oprah shut the fuck up
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Early December 2022. I met up with some friends at a bar in Brooklyn for a birthday party. A friend lost an earring that her deceased and much loved grandmother gave her. She was incredibly sad about it. Today the bar called and while fixing the floor they found the earring. ❤️❤️
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This tweet is doing a lot of work. I love it. It’s sending some folks back to 1963 to understand what was happening with three amazing artists. Good work twitter!
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For last year's words belong to another language. And next year's words await another voice. -T.S. Eliot (My favorite New Year's thought.)
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As I understand it a cop could walk up to me right now & blow my head off & some significant number of ppl would support him just because.
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On the subject of the Underground Railroad a Black Floridian (my aunt) has reminded me that it didn’t just travel north, it also traveled south through FL into the Caribbean. (My research says that the passage from S. Florida to the Caribbean was called the Saltwater Railroad.)
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I can’t stand the expression “That’s not who we are.” Usually that is exactly who we are and we can’t or won’t face it.
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COVID is very bizarre. While it has and is devastating some others claim it doesn’t exist. Wait...sort of like....racism..
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I was suffering some Florida burnout so I closed my eyes and ended up in Dakar, Senegal. Good morning.
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@Deedseramma
Right. And not just any singer. Sarah V, who was “feared” herself as a singer. Virtuoso.
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I spoke to a real estate developer tonight and just as I’ve suspected, some stores in gentrifying areas that do little business but somehow remain open are subsidized by developers to make the area attractive.
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@dococt_
Is she saying not to treat the problem or is she saying don’t get so caught up in the boy’s diagnosis and the narrative around it that she treats him as if he’s a problem and not a child?
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Even Black joy carries the weight of resistance. I do everything in my power to unburden my happiness and simply live. I’m still figuring how but this is my mission.
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I’ve seen my future. The man in this photo is 81, from the US, and living a beautiful life in East Africa. How fly is he?
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I ordered sautéed greens with garlic. The waitress brings me this. I point out that they are not sautéed. She says that this is how they sautéed greens. Me: Unsauteed? Her: want me to take them back and have them sautéed? Me: These are not sauteeing greens. Her: 😐 Me: 😶
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I ran into Paul Mooney in the village the night before I was going to see him live. I told him I had tickets. He said, “Good...and bring all your n*gga friends.” 😂😂 RIP. Very funny, smart man. King of
#IDGAF
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The expression “the black body” is strange because what we mean is Black people. There is something deeply objectifying about it that I have never understood.
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