*APPLAUSE!!*

Marcus Miller on Jazz Day 2026 | April 30 in Chicago 🎶 #InternationalJazzDay #Chicago YouTube video by International Jazz Day

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AI and Libraries: Why Librarians May Become Arbiters of Reality | Jane Friedman Librarians are managing AI’s real-world effects, making them publishing’s early warning system on reliability, trust, and the limits of AI literacy.

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Looking to be quite lovely. Hope it thrives. I have a 9 yr old black knight, the year old yellow, and adding a red and a baby blue little. Waiting on them to arrive.

:)

I had never seen a yellow butterfly bush before until last year and so of course I purchased one and planted it. It did real well. My garden is just waking up and fingers are crossed it survived its first winter.

We were twelve when we began. 😊

Love that you’ve been walking with me since almost the beginning of this amazing journey. So grateful for the decades of friendship and support. <3

FYI. In 1870, Mississippi elected Hiram Revels, the first Af-Am US Senator.

👀

They fucked over sistergirl so bad. Was truly truly awful.

Congratulations!!!

Loved this!

And I loved her banana pants stories too. :)

Stories of Black and Indigenous patriots come into focus as US remembers the American Revolution The stories of Black and Indigenous men who fought during the American Revolution are sometimes overlooked.

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Thea wrote banana pants craziness but she was great to hang out with during the height of the old RT days. 😀

I have questions...

I was so glad to meet you all. Still glad to still be connected. I miss those RWA type interactions.

LOL What an evening that was. LOL

Why are Harvard’s slavery researchers quitting or being fired? The school’s $100m project to examine its slave ownership in Antigua is mired in controversy as academics allege obstruction

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Yay! Glad you were able to read it. 👍

Bookshop.org’s Sales Grew 55% in 2025, Sparked by Romance and E-books Six years on, the online bookseller continues to grow at a remarkable pace.

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Bookshop.org’s Sales Grew 55% in 2025, Sparked by Romance and E-books Six years on, the online bookseller continues to grow at a remarkable pace.

see if this works. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Oh shoot. So sorry. Sometimes they post. Let me go back to the original and see. Thx for letting me know.

Publishers Weekly - Bookshop’s Big Ambitions SINCE LAUNCHING in January 2020, Bookshop.org, the independent online bookselling platform, has provided a vital revenue stream to indie bookstores and

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Amen!!

Stormy Weather in color - The Nicholas Brothers and Cab Calloway | Colorized with DeOldify YouTube video by Black Pepper Swing

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wow!

Can you help some high school kids make a dream come true??