Malaika H. Kambon

Power is the ability to define phenomena, and make it act in a desired manner. quotes.thefamouspeople.com/huey-p-newton-…

Fun Fact: Miles Davis was heavily influenced by Ahmad Jamal, especially his use of silence and dynamics, shaping Miles’s own approach to minimalism.

42 years ago today, Run-D.M.C. released their self-titled debut album.

An absolute masterpiece.

I few people asked me while I was in Miami to ask Coco about why she was wearing a hat. I did not. Because if you are a black girl with natural hair you know why she was wearing a hat. Didn’t feel like breaking that one down. 🤷🏾‍♀️

Do not sleep on the fact that Coco Gauff is the youngest player inside the top five! The 22-year-old has been mixing it at the top table of women’s tennis since 2022/18 years of age. Special talent.

#MiamiOpen | @CocoGauff is through to her first Miami final after a solid 6-1, 6-1 victory over (13)Karolina Muchova. World No 4 Gauff, now 6-0 against Muchova, will play world No 1 Aryna Sabalenka or world No 2 Elena Rybakina in Saturday’s title match. 📸 | Rich Storry [Getty]

👀 Melanin March

👀 Melanin March

Back-to-back three-set tussles have ended with victor Frances Tiafoe receiving the warmest of embraces from his opponent – Mensik in R3 and Atmane in R16. Big Foe is a genuine good guy and his peers respect it. We love that for him and the game. 📸 | TennisTV; Reuters

Coco Gauff won this point (and the match) 📸 | Cristobal Herrera-Ulashkevich [Shutterstock]

👀Melanin March

👀 Melanin March

#MiamiOpen | @ArthurFils is through to the last eight after a quality 6-4, 6-7(4), 6-4 win over (24)Valentin Vacherot. The French 28th seed, who reached the quarters in Miami last year, awaits the winner between (22)Tommy Paul and (29)Tomás Martin Etcheverry. 📸 | Shutterstock

#MiamiOpen | Frances Tiafoe is through to the last 16 after seeing off defending champion (12)Jakub Mensik in a three-set epic – 7-6(4), 4-6, 7-6(11). Big Foe, who saved two match points en route to closing out the win, takes on Terence Atmane next. 📸 | Rich Storry [Getty]

#MiamiOpen | @CocoGauff is through to the quarter-finals after getting past Sorana Cirstea in three sets – 6-4, 3-6, 6-2. The 22-year-old American, into the last eight in Miami for the first time in her career, takes on (12)Belinda Bencic next. 📸 | Rich Storry [Getty]

#MiamiOpen | Hailey Baptiste is into the last eight after another quality 6-3, 6-4 victory over (25)Jelena Ostapenko. Baptiste, through to her first quarter-final at WTA 1000-level, takes on top seed and defending champion Aryna Sabalenka next. 📸 | miamiopen

#MiamiOpen | Victoria Mboko is through to the quarter-finals after a good 7-6(4), 4-6, 6-0 victory over (8)Mirra Andreeva. Mboko, who has now reached back-to-back WTA 1000 quarter-finals after reaching the last in Indian Wells, takes on (13)Karolina Muchova next. 📸 | Reuters

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👀 Lula's presidency (2003-10) led UN MINUSTAH occupation forces (2004-17) into Haiti/ Lula ignored the successful revolution of Haiti that overthrew Afrikan enslavement (1791-1804 bit.ly/4d56idT)/ Lula's 'center-left' govt toadied up to U.S. govt foreign policy despite the 1915-1934 U.S. Marine invasion of Haiti bit.ly/3PB44cs/ The 2004 UN MINUSTAH invasion brought suffering/death to Haiti bit.ly/4lOzRTo Among the human rights violations, Nepalese UN MINUSTAH troops defecated n the Artibonite River bit.ly/4lI9Gxw The fecal waste started a cholera epidemic that killed 10,000 PPL /The UN & Brazil denied responsibility/ After Brazil's crimes against Haitian-Afrikans who ended the TransAtlantic Slave Trade & helped Simon Bolivar liberate Venezuela /Ecuador/Peru/Colombia &Bolivia, Lula wants "formally recognize" Afrikan enslavement as a "crime against humanity?" What's wrong w/this picture? @ATLBlackStar @HaitiAction1 @HaitiJustice @jafrikayiti @AnnGarrison @sov_media @sfbayview