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Journalist and writer. Bison. Former Philadelphia Inquirer reporter. Broke story on the controversy over Philadelphia's Harriet Tubman statue being commissioned without a public call for artists. The city reversed course; issued the call.
“All the President’s Men” was a warning
Nearly 50 years later, the film feels less like a triumphant ode to journalism than a warning about media decay
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Military Secretly Admit U.S. Role in Iran School Bomb Horror
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PHILADELPHIA!! The Edge of Space-Time Book Tour will be coming your way on April 8 🤩
I will be in conversation with former Philly Poet Laureate Airea Dee Matthews at Parkway Central Library!
Details here — hope to see you there ♥️ #BookSky
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A United States senator from the president's own party, one who serves on the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, has no idea what's going on as America goes to war with Iran.
"I, a member of <checks notes> the Senate Committees on Finance, Budget, Judiciary, Foreign Relations, & Select Intelligence, have no better idea than you what the hell is happening as the President of the United States takes us into a an illegal war."
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Kicking off #BlackHistoryMonth w/ an appreciation thread of physicians:
1/ Charles R. Drew, MD
- American surgeon & researcher
- pioneer in the field of blood transfusions
- developed techniques for blood storage
- first African-American surgeon to examine for American College of Surgeons
"Some of Franklin’s most inventive covers would be found on a string of studio albums that she released between 1970 and 1974—albums that did not match the commercial success of her earlier Atlantic albums, but may represent her best, if not most underrated, work."
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Words are harmful, and disregarding this moment as a “harmless” outburst is a disservice to Michael B. Jordan, Delroy Lindo and the Black community. www.huffpost.com/entry/michae...
"if you were offended ".... BBC edited our a protest remark at BAFTAs but left in the N -word. This is a gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/m...
The sheer number of Amazon's backup diesel generators running simultaneously can have serious consequences for public health during emergencies or test periods, says Patrick Anderson of the Southern Environmental Law Center, even if the generators don't run beyond their permitted time limits.
Demonstrators gather to protest removal of explanatory panels that were part of an exhibit on slavery at the President's House Site in Philadelphia. Photo: Matt Rourke - AP
Conservation & history preservation groups sued the Trump admin Tuesday, alleging National Park Service policies are erasing U.S. history & science from national parks
The Boston lawsuit says directives from Trump & Interior Sec. Doug Burgum led staff to remove exhibits on slavery & climate change
@willbunch.bsky.social : 'the first interview with the 36-year-old South Jersey man whose tearful protest against an ICE raid at a school bus stop has been watched more than 3 million times. How a non-political Eagles fan Everyman became the face of ICE resistance share.inquirer.com/y8Tusp
This gift article from The New York Times gives a long and in- depth story on Rev. Jesse Jackson's life. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...
Acclaimed artist Betye Saar is 99 years old.
She turns 100 in July.
#ArtSky #BlackSky #BHM
📖. I’m grateful for the kind words I received so far about MY CITY NEED SOMETHING. We set out to bring our village with us, which is to say the work shall remain unfinished until we hear from you. You too have + hold some answers that we should be writing down. www.commonnotions.org/buy/my-city-...
Magnificent opinion defending true history on President's Day.
Civil rights figures like Jesse Jackson are why black feminists are theorized intersectionality: he might have forged a multi-racial coalition but black woman weren’t always in that coalition. Complicated man, complicated politics.
i think jesse jackson was one of the most important american political figures of the post-war era and i think that his 1984 and 1988 campaigns for the democratic nomination still have a great deal to teach about forging a path to a more egalitarian world. RIP.
Jesse Jackson's audacity of hope. My latest @globeopinion.bsky.social column.
I. AM. SOMEBODY. ✊🏽
Rest in Power, Reverend Jesse Jackson.
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/w...
Thinking of Surya Bonaly this week while watching the backflip return to Olympic ice. She was the first to land it on one blade in Olympic competition in Nagano in 1998. I will never forget how I jumped up and screamed seeing her do it live.
How the military criminalized blackness in Vietnam: my essay on an eye-opening new history of the war. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/b...
Today marks 58 years since the Orangeburg Massacre--one of the deadliest incidents of the Civil Rights Movement
Students had been protesting the continued segregation of All Star Bowling Lane when state police opened fire
Today the bowling alley is being brought back to life
It’s Déjà Vu All over Again
With everything going on in Minneapolis and around the country, it is stunning to note the similarities to the Orangeburg Massacre, which took place February 8, 1968.
#OtD 8 Feb 1968 the Orangeburg massacre took place in South Carolina when police opened fire on Black SC State students, killing three and wounding 27 after Black student-led protests at a segregated bowling alley shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/collec...
Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
(gift substack) Jeffrey Epstein didn't want prostitutes. He wanted scared, vulnerable girls and young women he could control. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...
