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Martin Luther Vandross King Jr
5 years
When Blair Underwood hears about an audition for a bad husband.
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If your “jokes” align with violence against marginalized folks, then they’re not jokes. They’re propaganda. We don’t live a “hypersensitive” world. People are finally being held accountable. Tell your friends to tell a friend.
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Rest in power, Bill Cobbs!
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Indeed: This job matches your resume. Me: Dope. What is it? Indeed: Astronaut
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The real meat and potatoes of Black Twitter is everyday people. Not B-list Black celebrities and pseudo intellectual Talking Heads
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“Black Twitter: A People’s History,” a three part docuseries, to premiere on May 9 on Hulu:
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Drake trying to flip the BBL Drizzy moniker after being the laughing stock of the music industry for the last month.
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Anxiety: What if they don’t like me? Insecurity: They don’t like me Intuition: Them niggas the feds
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evil flat-chested wench
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How do y’all discern between anxiety, insecurity and intuition
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Hey @washingtonpost --- I fixed this for you @deray
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@bobbyxlong @D_Bell2013 He done out nigga’d all of us.
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Keke BD got a little Frank Mitchell in him
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@ItalianFiesta Mrs Jones was about to put that iron on Debo. Pops talking about, “let him be a man”
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@shannonsharpeee Had my man Jeezy talking like a step-daddy who doesn’t have whooping privileges. “I’ll tell you what” 🤨
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@_iamtiredLord Stand up!!!!
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@thatdjhitlist Nigga said he’s a conquistador
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Martin Luther Vandross King Jr
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@LetMicahDown In 1960, the city of Houston removed 490 bodies from Fifth Ward’s historic Evergreen Negro Cemetery for road expansion. They claim the bodies were re-interred to other cemeteries. But I’ve heard other claims.
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@1jiare The concept of unconditional love is a dangerous fallacy. Men who complain about not being loved unconditionally are always up to no good.
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Martin Luther Vandross King Jr
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Director: Blair, in this scene, I need you to beat your wife with a nonstick pan. Blair: I’d be honored.
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Men won't respect you more for covering up or being "classy". He either respects all women or he doesn't. Womanhood is not binary.
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Martin Luther Vandross King Jr
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Spirit Airlines canceling all of their flights after employees strike is a reminder that our economic system is built on the backs of low-wage service workers. The moment we stand up, the system topples.
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@Luck_2004 My nigga ain’t new to this, he true to this.
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2 years
Top tier white man begging.
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My children will be free to love whoever they want. As long as they’re Black.
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5 years
Nigga don’t even read the script. He just shows up on set- being sorry
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Folks also underestimate how close we are slavery. My great-great grandmother was born 17 years after emancipation. Both of her parents were enslaved. I was born in 1990
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Folk underestimate how long (chattel) slavery lasted. 1600-1865 . 265 years. To compare 265 years ago was 1759. Imagine telling folks who been here nearly 3 centuries they are still visitors . It’s insanity
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8 years
If my trans, women, gender non- conforming and LBGQ folks aren't included in your liberation-- neither am I. I came for liberation..
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6 years
Taking aim at the vulnerable isn’t subversion.
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Women are really socialized to see the best in men at all times. Often to their own detriment. All that nigga did was open the Bible and say a few therapy buzz words. “He’s doing the work”
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Dayna Lynn Nuckolls
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My thing is this. Y'all see the family situation Clay is coming from and how he really just made the connections between his upbringing and his own patterns. And folks are calling him everything but a child of a God. His trauma on display for everyone to see and folks just mean.
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#Ozark Ruth: I hate your fucking guts, Marty! Wendy: You’re a terrible father, Marty Agent Miller: Marty, give me what I need or you’re going to spend your life in a box Omar: I’ve killed men for less Marty:
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@Pinky_Balboa Uncle Jerome approved!
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"We're all immigrants who migrated to America in search of a better life" Black Folks:
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No one worth their ilk follows 90% of these weird echo chamber niggas who found out they were black in 2016
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@TheCourtKim Me trying to order some white only pie.
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@itsReallyRonnie If you tried to impose your idea of respect upon her without a formal mutual agreement, then yes, you were trying to control her.
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@BigBebeh We gotta bring pathetic R&B back. It never misses.
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@bronze_bombSHEL My Great-Great Grandfather, Martin Alfonso Thomas Meridian, Mississippi 1873-1945
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Y'all just don't know how dangerous a hurt man with a fresh fade and a new job is. 😂😂😂 #Insecure
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@beetIejess He tried to send that nigga to the yonder
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Whitney Houston. And it ain’t even close.
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nathan
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Who in your opinion is the best female singer/vocalist you’ve ever heard?
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Indeed believed in me when no one else did!!
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@KevOnStage If a nigga from the Temptations told me that I needed to find a trade because I was conventionally unattractive, I’d become the best damn welder in the world.
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@meghanncuniff “In short, like yourself, I’m also great at what I do”
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@bronze_bombSHEL My Great-Great Grandmother, Flora Thomas (Gibbs) 1893-1949
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@notcapnamerica Denzel was about hit that man with the coney Island combo.
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Denice getting her message from Joy #readytolove
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@brandonjinx Drake never beating cracka allegations
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Martin Luther Vandross King Jr
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Accountability feels like an attack when you’re not ready to acknowledge how your behaviors harm others.
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@bronze_bombSHEL My Great-Great-Great Aunt, Abby Thomas . . Meridian, Mississippi 1865-1966 She lived to be 101!
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@RVAReid “Usher vs my uncle James, who sold out the Knights of Columbus Hall in Bushfuck, Missouri”
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@Phil_Lewis_ Manio said he itching for a lynching.
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Imagine coming on here thinking you’re going to argue folk’s humanity. Now imagine getting blocked into obscurity.
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Osmosis Love Jones (2021)
@strongblacklead
Strong Black Lead
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How I'm trying to be this summer with somebody son.
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This is fit the school nurse gives you when you pee on yourself.
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you
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I'm still upset about this outfit
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Martin Luther Vandross King Jr
8 years
Hoteps want to end white supremacy so they can implement black male supremacy. Let's just call a spade a spade and skip the dramatics
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Young Thug lawyer
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@Mulkiizm OG Instagram was a wild place! 🤣
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DJ Envy apologizing to his wife on the air for cheating on her with Erica Mena isn’t even a top-10 Breakfast Club moment. That’s how wild that show was 😭😭😭
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@meghanncuniff Now how I get in it?
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They hate white supremacy. But have no issue with misogyny, patriarchy or capitalism. You're not about liberation. Inclusion is key.
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Drake took the “If they’re laughing at you, laugh with them” approach. That’s some shit your 6th grade guidance counselor tells after the bullies ram your head against the locker.
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Anyone who suggests that you should acquiesce your intersections for the greater good of Blackness is not concerned with your liberation
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@TheRoot Panhandling for engagement
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@MatthewACherry I was ready to ride.
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@Raqi_4Real @VanLathan Almost every time someone is accused of something heinous on Higher Learning, Van has a 2-3 minute prologue on how he’s either friends with the accused or “only knows them to be a good guy.”
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But when Pusha T called him a tragic mullato who parades his deadbeat father around while simultaneously being a chip off the old block by hiding his own white child, he didn’t have anything else to say
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The Flashy Guy From Flushing 🎃
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This is who @drake chose to diss. The INSANELY talented Esperanza Spalding. Her story reads like someone who was destined for greatness. Stick to club songs and leave REAL musicians alone.
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@theblaCCthor @DamnJazAgain My brother, they’re saying your old lady is fresh off the Mayflower. Might want to sit this one out.
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Sherrone Moore
@ChaseGoodbread
Chase Goodbread
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A reporter asked Michigan coach Sherrone Moore about Jalen Milroe's comments on Bill O'Brien suggesting he change positions, and where he thinks Black QBs stand today from a stereotyping standpoint. "Really, I don't see color. My wife is Caucasian. My kids are mixed. I deal with
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I'm not with that ra ra faux-revolutionary bullshit. Take that hotep shit on. Black feminism is vital.
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@DeuceThomas There’s a broader conversation on how the rising costs and exclusivity of AAU is leaving poor kids on the concrete. Sure, there are expectations who get sponsored, but we’re leaving far too many kids behind.
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@Phil_Lewis_ “Should I put a noose around my neck? You know, I really want to hammer the message home!”
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@TrapSquadDulli I just know moms got a gold tooth.
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@TMZ Imagine getting your shit rocked and a nigga dressed like James from ‘Good Times’ comes to save you.
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Martin Luther Vandross King Jr
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Well actually, you let niggas beat you up and spit on you for a full semester so you could bark like a dog at college parties. Sit this one out, Que. This ain’t for you.
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jimmy johns started slavery
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@Aviator_Floyd Proverbs 31 woman
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@The_Acumen 😭😭
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@VanLathan Historically, they’ve killed everything they’ve come in contact with
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This would be a great time to drop a link for my highly anticipated mixtape. But I’ll spare you. Please check out my writing.
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I can’t have my bloodline colonized like that. Can’t take that much nig out of ya ger.
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@Cindtrillella Y’all really think Teddy was going to let Franklin walk away with $18 million? Come on.
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Me reminding my clone to get the most not the lesser #TheyClonedTyrone
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@bomani_jones Antman tougher than a two dollar steak. Ain’t nothing they can do with him.
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@MatthewACherry I’m almost convinced the producers for the NFL draft are the same producers for American Idol “If your mother did coke with Roger Troutman and/or burned cigarettes out on your baby fat, please come forward”
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Facebook and Twitter be selling user data, using predatory targeted ads, and election interference. But yes, let’s ban TikTok
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philip lewis
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress sends Biden bill requiring TikTok's parent company to sell the platform or face a US ban.
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@bomani_jones I don’t doubt his account. But it sounds like he desired mentorship. Understandable. But typically, the onus is on the mentee to seek guidance. My follow-up question to Rich would be: “Knowing what you know now, what are YOU doing to prepare the next generation of black agents”
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Niggas pay $200 a month and swear they’re getting extorted 💀
@ReturnOfMrYeah
Back by Popular Demand...
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Too many women love using child support to punish men for them not being together, not because they're not taking care of their children. Then get mad when the courts requires next to nothing for support. Smh.
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Jonathan Majors sat up in that interview with them big ass jnco pants on and casually admitted to telling that white woman to be more like Coretta Scott King.
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@andrewkelly747 Generational talent?
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Gmail:There’s something unusual about your activity Me: That’s not me. Gmail: We logged them out. Change your password Me: Done Gmail: I found the guy who hacked your shit Me: What? How? Gmail: IP address Me: Oh Gmail: I’m looking at him now. I’m about to wreck his shit
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Drizzy diddlers in my comments.
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This Taraji train wreck segment transition to an Ice Spice performance is a little too much #BETAwards
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@MulhollandL0ver “I would hate for you to be next”
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NBA analysts: I expect to see a fully committed and healthy Zion next season Zion:
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Eligible families will receive $40 per month per child during the summer — a total of $120 per child I mean, it’s something. If you’re a glass half full type. But nothing to be praised for Especially when you consider we’ve given over 130 billion to Israel since it’s “founding”
@CBSNews
CBS News
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Biden administration to provide summer grocery money to 21 million kids. Here's who qualifies.
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I shouldn't know his name #JordanEdwards
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Every time I see pictures like this, it reminds me that age of consent laws is the only thing stopping many men from seeking child brides. The fact that laws like this are needed is even more alarming.
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Time Capsule Tales
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34-year-old Homer Peel kisses his 12-year-old bride Geneva on the courthouse steps in Madisonville, Tennessee, June 25, 1937.
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@marclamonthill That kid will remember that moment for the rest of his life. That’s what it’s all about.
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