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This👇🏾 is a scene from the John Singleton's #Rosewood, a 1997 film dramatizing the real life destruction of a Black town and massacre of its people, in Florida in 1923. As for the quoted tweet? #WhiteRacialResentment is cruel regressive and destructive. #SameShitDifferentYear

“la femme au couteau” ♡ྀི (1969) .

last year was tough but i never fell for the dubai chocolate stuff

📺DEBUT: ‘The Charmings’ premiered 39 years ago, March 20, 1987, on ABC

She climbed 180 feet into a 1,000-year-old redwood—and refused to come down. In December 1997, Julia “Butterfly” Hill stepped onto two small wooden platforms high in a tree called Luna. What was meant to be a short protest became 738 days of isolation, endurance, and defiance. No walls. No heat. Just sky. She survived 90 mph El Niño winds, freezing rain, and constant harassment from loggers below. Supplies were pulled up by rope. Sleep came in fragments. Every day was a test of how long one person could hold their ground. But she stayed. Not just for a tree—but for what it stood for: ancient life, fragile ecosystems, and the power of refusing to move. After more than two years, it worked. A $50,000 agreement with Pacific Lumber was reached, protecting Luna and a 200-foot buffer zone from logging. One woman. One tree. And a line that wouldn’t be crossed. #archaeohistories

The detailing is insane. Zoom in.

Steve McQueen spent years as a visual artist before he made his first film. Hunger (2008) was shot with almost no dialogue in the first half. It starred a then-unknown Michael Fassbender. While Hunger was his first feature film, he had been making experimental art pieces like Bear and Deadpan since the early 90s. Hunger won the Camera d'Or at Cannes. Then came Shame. 12 Years a Slave won the Oscar for Best Picture. Restraint is power. The thing you choose NOT to show is often the strongest choice you make.

Doing this at my show tomorrow during Walk on By.

@MissSassbox I used to put them in my pocketbook to make it smell good when I needed to rummage and find something.

three things: 1. extremely accurate 2. what made us do that lol 3. she is really beautiful

Ask and you shall receive? It's giving more Broadway than Quiet Storm Adult Contemporary... but it's a step!

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caught the Amazon guy on the way out the door and didn't say 'good morning', but instead asked him if he was alright or needed anything before I locked the door. he looked off. paused a second and asked me why I said that. told him his glow wasn't showing. he finally told on himself. turns out his damn blood sugar was low but he left his cooler at the warehouse. didn't have time to stop. told him to drop the other deliveries, raided my kitchen and threw him a grocery bag full of snacks like Supermarket Sweep. he yelled LOVE YOU as he peeled out. made me feel like one of those dogs that can sense sickness and I gotta hit. 😭

@ScionofCulture Their fear isn't our retiliation. They fantasize about that, so they're no longer alone and feel normalized in their history. Their true fear is competent progressive leadership that improves their lives, from the other. That is why they flipped full Exorcist-style at Obama.

The truth is, they hate our race because we're too forgiving, and haven't installed true fear of consequence for their transgressions against us. I'll keep saying it, no one in this world respects the weak or the kind. It does not benefit our race to be overly welcoming. It's proven to be suicidal

What I would give to have a great producer work with Samara Joy and turn out something of this caliber. Bring back Adult Contemporary Quiet Storm Music.😭

She didn’t just run a library—she quietly rewrote what knowledge was allowed to exist, who it belonged to, and who had the power to preserve it. In 1920s, Harlem was exploding with creativity, intellect, and cultural force. But inside most major institutions, Black history was still treated as invisible—scattered, undervalued, or ignored entirely. Ernestine Rose saw the danger in that. Because what isn’t collected… is eventually erased. As head of the 135th Street branch of the New York Public Library, she made a radical decision: the library would not simply serve the community—it would reflect it. At a time when most libraries focused on assimilation, she insisted on preservation. On pride. On truth. She recognized something others didn’t yet fully grasp—that a man named Arthur A. Schomburg had spent years building one of the most important private collections of Black history in the world. Books, manuscripts, art, documents—proof of a global story too often denied. And she fought to bring it into public hands. Through persistence, advocacy, and sharp institutional maneuvering, Rose helped secure the purchase of Schomburg’s collection for the NYPL. That single act didn’t just fill shelves—it laid the foundation for what would become one of the most important centers of Black cultural scholarship anywhere in the world. But she didn’t stop there. In 1920, she hired Catherine Allen Latimer—the first Black librarian in NYPL history—to steward and grow the collection. That decision mattered just as much as the books themselves. Because representation wasn’t an accessory to the mission—it was the mission. Rose believed libraries should adapt to people, not the other way around. She encouraged staff to learn languages like Yiddish and Russian to serve immigrant communities. She rejected the idea that knowledge had to be filtered through a narrow cultural lens. And in 1939, she helped push forward one of the earliest versions of what would become the Library Bill of Rights—arguing that access to information should be equal, uncensored, and fiercely protected. What she built in Harlem wasn’t just a library branch. It was a declaration: that history belongs to everyone—but only if someone is willing to fight to keep it from disappearing. © Historical Photos #archaeohistories

See? And this is why I wanna go there. I'd have to be in the low 100s at least.

What We Lost When We Lost Rom-Coms theatlantic.com/culture/2026/0…

Caught Up In The Rapture (1986) Anita Baker

@acnewsitics They are the ones who deal in identity politics. It's the only reason why they'd think an obvious huckster like Trump, would be for them.

It’s wild how many people vote Republican and then expect Democratic policies to protect them.

@SVG__Collection 28 years old.

Masterpiece.