Ken J. Makin

Special guest cohost @oshontheexp and I recently sat down with Dr. @SandyDarity and his wife, Kirsten Mullen, to have THE conversation about Black reparations. Thanks for hanging out with us to talk about your latest book. m.soundcloud.com/makinadifferen…

I need to shoutout my young students at Eastern High School, who have been working hard with @WABJDC this month to revive the school newspaper! I am extremely proud of them!!!!

Because it’s Opening Day! csmonitor.com/USA/Society/20…

@DHtheComposer Thank you for reading!

Great read.

I will give this a thorough read and hopefully promote, share and analyze it. This looks great already.

Wrote a research paper on how basketball recruiting reporters perpetuated stereotypes via scouting reports in 2014! Insane how things like this persist.

“But paying the players will ruin the sport.” Everybody is still watching. The fear tactics used to keep exploiting players failed.

How Conservative Women in America act 😂🇺🇸

@KYMOTOSIS Thank you for sharing!

Thank you

@differencemakin @andscape Excellent read and situates the differential refereeing McMahon experienced within the broader ‘culture war’ that is being increasingly imposed on women’s basketball. It does affect the game. Thank you!

“It’s not enough to “abolish ICE”; we have to abolish the police force and replace it with a radically different form of public safety.” truthout.org/articles/robin…

🙏🏾

I’m not sure how old you are or your knowledge of how interviews with Hop-hop magazines, to GQ and even Play Boy went. They had in depth interviews and discussions on geopolitical and national issues. Media, even entertainment media (MTV news) was major and had real journalism.

Thanks for sharing!

Had to get this off my chest. For @andscape

Going to an HBCU might be better for Black students’ health, according to a recent study ‘At age 62, Black adults who had attended an HBCU had better memory and cognitive function than those who attended a PWI’ theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m…

NEW: Atlanta found billions to build an entertainment district But it hasn’t found money (the political will) to keep Black families in the neighborhoods that have flooded for generations On climate gentrification and who gets saved when the water rises. capitalbnews.org/atlanta-world-…

Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens has confirmed federal ICE agents will be sent to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Monday morning to assist with travel delays. #TSA

There’s always a ton of bad media news to go around, but I want to take a moment to spotlight the @SacObserver, a 60+yr Black-owned newspaper that is growing and expanding its coverage into Stockton, California. Check them out! stocktonobserver.com