Just take 3 mins and 15 seconds to listen to this lady speak.
WHY👏🏾DONT👏🏾WE👏🏾ALL👏🏾KNOW👏🏾ABOUT👏🏾HER??!!!
This genuinely makes me so upset.
She been gone 8 years and I hear her name on a random
youtu.be/RcVo0Laga6s?...
HT @shannonmattern.bsky.social
#Booksky #Books #20DayBookChallenge #BookChallenge
*🙂haven't read, gotta get, our provost in the 70s📖
Cleveland outfielder Oscar Gamble. Also Cleveland outfielder Oscar Gamble’s awesome afro.
Mama great horned owl sits in a laundry basket nest.
New chill owl video just dropped!
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Link in bio. Thank you! 🦉🪶
#Mood "Mayor Zohran Mamdani met with former President Barack Obama at a child care center in the Bronx on Saturday as the mayor moved to expand access to free care for 2-year-olds." @mayor.nyc.gov
Wrote a piece about Martha and the Vandellas, civil rights, and their place in the history of Black women R&B groups. I also created a YouTube playlist (in the comments) with some of their hits
B.B. King with Lucille #bluesmusic
Vicksburg, Mississippi, 2007.
Photo by ©Kevin Westenberg
Happy ‘Sinners’ Day!
One year ago, Ryan Coogler’s ‘Sinners,’ released in theaters.
Today, a federal court granted a preliminary injunction halting construction on the proposed ICE Facility in Washington County. This ruling is a major and welcome step forward.
#Books #Bookstores #Authors #Writers
Special shout-out to Black-owned bookstores. I was fortunate to hear Ntozake, NIkki G., E. Ethelbert Miller, and so many others at such a special time in my life.
Keep writing writers, keep selling books bookstore owners. We need you.
www.mahoganybooks.com
#Books #Bookstores #Writers #Authors
When I am wandering downtown, if I have enough money, I go here.
Second Story Books has operated at its Dupont Circle location (2000 P Street NW) since 1978."
"It is a renowned, long-standing, and independent second-hand bookstore in Washington, D.C."
#Books #Bookstores #Authors #Writers
My older sister took me to Kramerbooks in the 70s. It was a wonderful dusty looking spot. Everyone looked intense & smart & cool to me at the time. Folk walked around with books in those days. It was loved it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kramers....
#books #bookstores #authors #writers
OMG. This 20 Book Challenge! Wow. Remembering bookstores from back in the day. If you know DC and you a senior, you might remember DC & book stores back then.
Pyramid Books, Drum & Spear, the 1st Kramerbooks & Afterwords. Wow.
www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=85756
"Harvard professor Namwali Serpell has been teaching Morrison for nearly two decades. Her book, On Morrison is a deep dive into the Nobel winner's complete body of work — 11 novels, plays and criticism" www.npr.org/2026/04/13/n...
👏 Congratulations to Sade Adu, the first British black woman to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. #MusicSky #Sade
rockhall.com/sade/
#BLM OTD 1853 Harriet Tubman made her first of 19 courageous trips back to the South, leading enslaved people to freedom through the Underground Railroad. She personally guided 70 people (family & friends) out of Maryland & provided instructions to 50–60 more.
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
Co-sign. This is an essential classic.
On this day in 1964-April 13th, Sidney Poitier became the first Black actor to win a leading actor Oscar.
Lucy Craft Laney.
#ResistanceRoots
Lucy Craft Laney was born on this day in 1854 in Macon, Ga. Known as the “Mother of the Children of the People,” she was an educator and social reformer who served as an influential mentor and created some of the first educational opportunities for African Americans in Georgia. /1
Michaela Oyenwere has signed with the Washington Mystics.
I’m a little disappointed by this news but happy she will be on a good team. #WNBA
History is funky ... "D.C. poet Brian Gilmore walks east of the Anacostia and down Highway 61, tracing the funk of history through law, jazz, baseball, and Black survival in America." www.salvationsouth.com/brian-gilmor...
The AHR has launched a new project, Authoritarianism 101: A Global History, as part of the #AHRSyllabus series.
Explore 30 modules from different contributors and key questions on authoritarianism—each paired with primary sources and teaching resources. The first twelve modules are now live.
The Glover Family.
