It’s pub day! 📚✏️🧠🎉
I’m so proud of these puzzles and I hope they bring you joy!
Black Crossword is available now wherever you get your books. Ask your local bookstore if they carry it!
If you purchase online, I recommend Bookshop:
not all Latinx are “people of color”
some are white
very white
so white, they are descendants of Spaniards who literally STARTED the slave trade and contributed to the invention of whiteness
WHITE.
BLANCO.
stop using “Latinx” in relation to “people of color”
I’ve been chewing on something Tracee Ellis Ross said on a podcast. She was talking about being worried about making wrong decisions in life and messing up the course of her “destiny,” and eventually realized you can’t mess it up. YOU CAN’T MESS IT UP!
The first track is called:
I swear, I Really Wanted To Make A "Rap" Album But This Is Literally The Way The Wind Blew Me This Time
and they still categorized it under “Rap” 🥴
Unfun fact: Juneteenth was not the end of slavery in the United States. Slavery did not end in Delaware and Kentucky until December of 1865, six months after Juneteenth. Slavery is STILL LEGAL as punishment for a crime according to the 13th amendment.
I just learned that before the Civil War, the confederates wanted to annex Cuba to expand their slavery-driven economy. & Cuban plantation owners were in alliance w/ them bc they were seeing a lot of revolts on the island, and didn't want Cuba to become "another Haiti."
*light skinned people cast in 3736636278383663727 latino tv/film projects*
*backlash erupts after light skinned people cast in film about predominately afro-latinx neighborhood*
rita moreno: “you can never do right, it seems”
lol I was 18 in my first semester at Temple and after I read these books and would insufferably ask ppl at trashy college parties if they knew what the prison-industrial complex was 😩
NYC's public libraries will face Saturday closures, restricted weekday hours, cuts to educational programs and a freeze on new branch openings under cuts proposed by Mayor Adams.
made more in my first year as a full time small business owner than I did last year as a salaried employee and I just want to say thank you to everyone who stressed me out beyond my limit at my 9-5 because without you I wouldn’t have taken the leap! happy new year ☺️
everyone in NYC living in a rent stabilized apartment should request their unit’s rental history to see if they’re being overcharged. it takes 30 seconds. documents are mailed to you
crying again I love gymnastics and I love olympic season. these women are AMAZING—on and off the floor. Congrats to Rebeca Andrade,
@Simone_Biles
and
@ChilesJordan
🥇🥈🥉
#Paris2024
yup. for Black people who happen to be Latinx, “Latinxs for Black Lives” is redundant. which is why “Latinx” as an identity is so arbitrary for us 🤷🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️ also, “Latinxs for Black Lives” assumes that there is a default Latinx, who is non-Black.
I’ve been observing this troublesome slogan of “Latinxs for Black Lives” for a few days now. And I understand the importance of a politics of solidarity, but at the cost of continuing the erasure of Black Latinxs is deeply painful. We are more than a festival.
started the Toni Morrison doc last night and i’ve been chewing on a part where she says that at the time she was growing up people didn’t have so much shame around being poor or working class
@WrittenByHanna
interestingly enough, if she said this sans sarcasm and sans weird tragic street art, i’d be like, I love this! like yes sis take a black walk, sing a black song, and take a black nap I love that for you!
corporations be like “you’re stressed and unwell because you don’t meditate, not because we make you work 16 hour shifts and we disregard your humanity. here’s a meditation app.”
(Cuba was majority Black at the time.) There were confederate flags flying at major ports in Havana to welcome them during that time. & many of the U.S. elite (politicians, presidents, vps, etc) owned plantations in Cuba. 🤯
Ohio has set up a website for companies to report people who refuse to work during the pandemic, so that they don’t keep getting unemployment benefits.
The LA Lakers, one of the richest NBA franchises, applied for and received $4.6 million in federal loans earmarked for small businesses. The money has been returned.
If you're in the Airbnb hosting business, Atlanta is canceling the ability to own more than 2! One has to be your primary residence AND you have to be an Atlanta resident. +$150 permits & 8% tax rental fee.
Whew. This will cancel 4K/7.5K rentals 🥴
Wild how the "Kamala is a cop" folks are awfully quiet these days, despite the fact that she's been quite visible and vocal.
Almost like it was a targeted effort to decrease her popularity because she was seen as a threat to... other candidates... when she was running.
Okayplayer and OkayAfrica say they've “severed all ties” with CEO and publisher Abiola Oke following recent allegations. “This was long overdue,” wrote Questlove.
I thought it was so interesting when the salon owner started singing about the slave trade, the Tainos, and conquistadors ….. and yet all the characters are light and/or white 😭 that was not the anti-colonial flex they thought it was.
#InTheHeightsMovie
@gimmeachancesis
EXACTLY! Just as exploitative. I don’t want to hear anything suggesting that we need to support black billionaires with companies that are modeled after rich white cutthroat businessmen. it’s bare minimum to pay people market value and give them actual PTO.
tHis FiLm CaNt Be eVeRyTHinG tO eVEryOne
……. but could it have been at the very least representative of the neighborhood?………….
(no because that would’ve meant casting more black people 🙃)
@ComradeX02
I interviewed for a marketing manager position in 2019 (or 2018?). I turned it down after one meeting but this lines up. they told me in the interview that the work was nonstop. the salary offered was less than I was making at the time. easyyyyy pass.