Ken J. Makin

I wrote about the NAACP’s proposed boycott and was glad to incorporate the perspective of Georgia Senate Minority Leader Harold Jones, who was candid and honest about the VRA and redistricting. “All of this happened because we were asleep.”

Phonte’s guest verse on Who? >>>>

Malcolm, Ho Chi Minh and Yuri Kochiyama were all born today. The stars were clearly aligning! Happy revolutionary Birthday to some of the greatest people to have ever lived. May we continue in their footsteps. Ameen!

Happy birthday to the GOAT, who created a standard for love and honesty regarding African peoples that we have yet to meet. Still we strive because of the memory and commentary of our own Black shining prince. WE ARE MALCOLM X

NBC not cutting corners on WNBA production like other networks do is so refreshing

Waffle House workers rally in Atlanta, demand $25 an hour wage and safer conditions atlantanewsfirst.com/2026/05/16/waf…

@jbrous41 Chennedy Chip On Her Shoulder. She got a 30 ball for the Fever I just know it

Walking bucket

@OJPhilly Thought the hashtag said People’s Champ

Headed back to green this morning for the final day of competition. #PGAChamp ⛳️ 🏌🏾‍♂️

"The d-word that comes to mind when I think about Collins isn’t “distraction.” It is dignity, and his gradual demand to live his life on his terms is something that can and should be aspirational for men regardless of their sexual orientation."--@differencemakin andscape.com/features/jason… | @andscape

Jason Collins was dignity, not distraction | @differencemakin The first openly gay NBA player wasn’t just important to league history but to the legacy of the oppressed andscape.com/features/jason… | @andscape

"Reporters and editors who get their ideas from their social-media feeds — which is most of them, most of the time — can mistake a paid simulation of public interest for the real thing and then make it real by covering it. " vulture.com/article/social…

Geddy Lee of Rush donated 600 baseballs signed by Negro League players to the Negro League museum in Kansas City

Comedy

Joe Lim estimates that 90 percent of what you see on the internet is advertising in disguise, and he should know. For three years, Lim ran a company called Floodify, which at its peak operated 65,000 dummy social-media accounts used to drum up attention on behalf of paying clients. The point of this kind of marketing is that nobody is supposed to notice it. But lately, the machinery has started to show. In April, Justin Bieber headlined two consecutive weekends at Coachella. Coachella is the biggest stage in pop music save only for the Super Bowl, the kind of event that in theory generates its own attention. And yet on both weekends, a Discord server writer Lane Brown had been monitoring hosted paid campaigns for Bieber’s Coachella performances, offering clippers — people who are hired to turn a song, trailer, interview, stump speech, or whatever into short, social-media-friendly fragments — as much as a dollar per thousand views. “On social media, popular opinion is being formed, measured, and manipulated all at once, and every signal the platforms produce — a trending song, a backlash, a talking point, the feeling that ‘everybody’ is suddenly talking about the same thing — can now be fabricated by unseen actors with hidden agendas,” writes Brown. “Everybody is doing this now,” Lim says. “And if you’re not, you’re behind.” Brown reports on how the same techniques are now being used to fool people on every app they go to in order to find out what other people think, not just in music but across entertainment, politics, consumer products, and celebrity gossip: nymag.visitlink.me/w6Bu9N

On this day in 1970, law enforcement opened fire on Jackson State's campus, killing two Black students. ow.ly/pw1r50YXN18

Leaders of the Georgia Legislative Black Caucus said Thursday that they aren’t sure which of their members will be targeted by Republicans looking to eliminate majority-Black districts. atlanta.capitalbnews.org/georgia-redist…