they cutting up what dance 🕺 is this #shortsfeed YouTube video by HELLRASA

Good morning vibes! Love the joy of these kids. #earlyinthemorning

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Whole People Don’t Fit in Broken Systems We keep telling people to heal in environments that keep breaking them. To practice “self-care” in systems built on self-sacrifice.

A must-read... Whole People Don’t Fit in Broken Systems
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What!?!?!

Whew!!!! Yes. And would that Black person actually say they feel close to you.

If you claim to be an ally or co-conspirator but can’t name a single Black person you’re close to, how do you expect me to believe you?

Yes and yes, please!!! Also Helen Robinson's story.

Photo of cover of the book I Decided to Live as Me by Kim Shun (translated by Anton Hur)

On weekends, I read. Today, I am left w/ these words, "In our cynical world, we have to learn to pay more attention to ourselves & those who are important to us. But we also have to fight injustice and cruelty if we are to hold on to our humanity and...do our part to build a better world."

It means that people with average or below average credit scores should not be denied credit. If he has been given clearance to run the country after all his scams, schemes and felony convictions there is no good reason to deny others credit.

Brooklyn!

Celebrating the Lineage of Black Women Writers

Join @rebel19.bsky.social & Cori Murray to explore the intersections of politics and art-making along lines of race, gender, sexuality, & class

Tuesday, February 11th at 7:30 pm
Center for Fiction

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Hold your loved ones close. Be the reason someone stays believing the world still has good people in it. I'll be out here doing my best to do the same. 🫂📚🤗

The Resident, The Madness, The Equalizer w/Queen Latifah, Reasonable Doubt - all have fierce Black female leads.

🤬 Target has ended DEI goals and I have ended my Target shopping.

Employee Relations and Integrity Hotline at 1-800-541-6838/ email Integrity@Target.com

Target's HR Operations Center team at 1-800-394-1885

General Guest inquiries: 1-800-440-0680

Let’s all call at once

True. It also accompanies the previous slaps in the face from a felon playing chief commander.

-10..and below wind chills is no joking matter. Schools need to stop playing politics & consider well being of children & staff. E-learning or closing for the day is not a sign of weakness. School should not be the sole child care solution. Skip the histrionics about this.
#PeopleOverPolitics

martin luther king jr. is standing in front of a microphone giving a speech . Alt: martin luther king jr. is standing in front of a microphone giving a speech .

“Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ But conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but because conscience tells one it is right.”

MLK Jr

Agreeing to disagree is for pizza toppings, not racism.

So Amazon, Meta, Walmart, Walgreens et al all want us to believe that DEI programs are going away bc systemic inequities no longer exist!? Nevermind the convicted felon being sworn in a few weeks whose wht privilege & entitlement are the only reasons he's bought his way into the office. #hypocrisy

The cover of the book Parable of the Sower.

Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again."

She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.

You have every right to reevaluate your circles, and distance yourself from people who have revealed their true selves this season. It’s okay to leave toxicity behind and build communities around you in 2025 that lead with love, justice, and truth.

I want to let my friends/followers know that I care about you.
You're important
& I'm sending hope, light & support your way.

Please reach out for the assistance you need if you need it.

National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 988
UK:0800 689 5652
US:1-800-273-8255
Canada:1.833.456.4566

Thank you @npr.org

This is how you write a headline about THE Nikki Giovanni’s passing.

Love Poems by Nikki Giovanni In a career that has spanned more than a quarter century, Nikki Giovanni has earned the reputatio...

My favorite collection of hers. Her writing was so funny, and so sincerely radiant with love. Even the tough love was tender on the inside.

#NikkiGiovanni
#Ancestor
#BlackBookSky
#BookSky

Four photos of James Baldwin

"I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually"

~ James Baldwin, who passed 37 years ago today, and whose voice is needed now more than ever

Thanks for sharing this. The pivot from the site formerly known as Twitter has been long over due but so worth it. It will take time for many of us to reconnect & build back our network of folx we follow but so it is. Onward. @tris

Thanks for your fabulous photos @barrybutler9.bsky.social Such great reminders of the treasure trove of beauty all around us.
#gratitude

Oral History of Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop YouTube video by American Library Association

Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop transformed how we see children's books and the world. Explore her powerful story in this oral history, created by the Coretta Scott King Book Awards Round Table for the 55th anniversary of the award.
📚 #MirrorsWindowsAndSlidingGlassDoors
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Racists are tragically mediocre people. There is not a single human who ever existed who shared the characteristics of being extraordinary as well as being racist. Because a central driving force behind racism is an inability to cope with mediocrity

Another reminder that privileged narcissists who incite and support insurrections should not be leading anything or making rules while flying around in private jets that someone else pays for.

Thanks, Kelly!

Or checking out Black Friday deals on that other site...😳