As a former StoryCorps facilitator, this is fucking disgusting.
End the project already, Dave.
You created a good model: you encouraged people to sit and do oral history for 20 yrs.
Turning StoryCorps into a surveillance capitalism nightmare is not worth the money to keep the project going.
The Schomburg Center. It is a treasure. Anyone can go there and importantly anyone can view any of the collections. You need a library card and that's it. It's free to use.
Go review the archive of Lorraine Hansberry there as just one example. You can read, touch, and sit with the materials.
They’re not donations; they’re purchases.
With GOP defections, US House passes bill extending legal status for 350,000 Haitians michiganadvance.com/2026/04/16/r...
knuckle
knuckle 1....
𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘧𝘳
Speaking of emancipation and reparations, a New York Times story came out today about the fastest growing county in the country.
Jasper County, South Carolina.
In the year 2000, over half the population was Black and one of the poorest in the state.
Now it's less than a third Black
This area is home to the Port Royal Experiment. This is where the concept of 40 Acres and a Mule was born. A vast swath of enslaved people lived here, and where freed people stayed.
The Gullah Geechee culture thrived in this area for well over a century
Now they're being pushed out
𝘩𝘦𝘺, 𝘸𝘦'𝘳𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘦
some shit they on
re: Billie Holiday's Strange Fruit
"What Holiday created was something akin to a communal obituary for the premature deaths of black people at the hands of white supremacy."
Khanya Mtshali, intro Billie Holiday: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
Khanya Mtshali, introduction, Billie Holiday: The Last Interview and Other Conversations, 2019
of school-going children, wake up to the smell of gunpowder and tear gas, and hear about the death of a loved one over the radio. What Holiday created was something akin to a communal obituary for the premature deaths of black people at the hands of white supremacy."
Khanya Mtshali, intro
Khanya Mtshali:
"Though my upbringing in post-apartheid South Africa had been an entire world away from Billie Holiday’s America, “Strange Fruit” reminded me of the times my grandmother would recount the tyranny of living under the apartheid regime, where she was forced to bury the bodies
I learned today that April is International Black Women's History Month.
Labour, also features the work of Natalie Asumeng, Tony Cokes, Chantal Gibson, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Kosisochukwu Nnebe, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, and Martine Syms.
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Curator Ingrid Jones’ group exhibition Labour, started out in Toronto and is now in Montreal at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, at Concordia University, through April 25, 2026.
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Tomorrow, April 16th, 6 pm EST, w/ curator Ingrid Jones & moderator Lise Ragbir, re: exhibition Labour,
I'll discuss my manifesto & installation “Inclusion Ruse,” curatorial praxis, & what it means for Black folks to work in museums.
Via Zoom. Please join us.
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I often return to Milkman's and Guitar's relationship
“I’m scared for you, man.” “That’s funny. I’m scared for you too.”
Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
A collection of 6 books on Paul Robeson including his personal autobiography
It's April 9th, so you know what that means?
That's right....you guessed it.
It's Paul Robeson Day.
If ever there was any person whose image & legacy deserves an immediate resurrection, it's Robeson.
Born 128 years ago today, his name should be as (or more) recognizable as 'Elvis.'
Meme comparing fear of surveillance in the 1960s to the broad acceptance of it now.
I'm the daughter of an Army paratrooper who refused orders during our illegal invasion of Vietnam back in the day. He went to LBJ military jail.
Dad taught his girls this: "Just following orders" is NEVER any excuse for anyone who's complicit in war crimes. You MUST refuse heinous orders.
‘It started with a tip-off’: how a Guardian investigation exposed child sex trafficking on Facebook and Instagram
A large labradoodle lying down in an armchair with his head up and his front legs crossed over one another.
I’m not mad; I’m just disappointed.
Thanks so much/ Obrigade to Papéis Selvagens for featuring our book of interviews: “Feminismos Africanos: Uma Historià Decolonial ” which they recently translated in Portuguese and released in #Brazil.
#AfricanFeminim #Decoloniality #FéminismeAfricain
The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
— Vincent van Gogh
Man they trying to follow the money, or sell the idea that they’re trying to take down the institution. Either way, it was a photo op for them
Colonial Psyops with Lara Sheehi & Nick Estes | cover of the book "From The Clinic To The Streets: Psychoanalysis For Revolutionary Futures | MAKC logo | The Red Nation logo | in the background photo titled: "PSYOPS Company sergeant with Vietnamese civilian" credit for background image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PSYOPS_Company_sergeant_with_Vietnamese_civilian.jpg
Colonial Psyops with Lara Sheehi in conversation with Nick Estes (@nicke.bsky.social) and @jaybeware.bsky.social
Friday at 10 AM EDT
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These disgusting fascists have reduced my vocabulary to FUCK.
Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities
