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“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” ~ #JaneGoodall ~ 🙏🏽 Rest in Peace my friend 🙏🏽

"The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything." Albert Einstein

If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policeman, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected - those, precisely, who need the law’s protection the most! - and listens

— Remembering Katrina — i still hear her name like a hymn hummed under breath, like mama’s hands shaking a tambourine while the water kept rising. streets turned to seas, and we learned how to pray with our lips pressed against rooftops, calling God by every name we knew. they

***Something Broken in America*** how many prayers must we stack before the ceiling cracks? how many babies must we bury before the ground refuses us? stop calling it tragedy when it’s policy. stop calling it freedom when our children are the collateral. we deserve a country

When crisis feels overwhelming, history shows we can unite + fix it. Catch a clip below, from my new PBS film Clearing the Air: The War on Smog. Premieres Aug 26, 9pm. I hope you’ll watch. #ClearingTheAirPBS

***Where the Breath Still Belongs*** they don’t tell you that freedom smells like pine needles after rain like canyon winds whisperin’ names older than flags they don’t say the eagle ain’t just a mascot, but a memory of what the sky once trusted they paved stories into parking

Don’t look away… I just saw Sophie’s post on TikTok and wanted to share so that more folks see it incase they want to help. This is bravery and I hope she never goes back 🙏🏽 “Posting this not for a petty party, but because I have a platform full of women inspiring a life like

“The Heartbeat of Our Better World” {Women’s Day} you sew sunlight into torn mornings turning storms into lullabies you take the sharp edge of the day and smooth it with your laughter until even grief sits still, listening thank you— for carrying more than

***on the 101st breath of james baldwin*** james, you whispered fire through a fractured tongue— each syllable a sermon, each truth a rung on the ladder we still climb to outrun this undone america. your pen was prophecy, bled black and bold— told us how cold freedom walks when

**“We Are the Endangered!”** https://t.co/nd3EpciAfH As the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) initiates the alarming process of dismantling the ‘Endangerment Finding’—the very cornerstone of our climate protection efforts—Dr. Mustafa Santiago Ali raises a powerful alarm. This

— Emmett Till Still Speaking — his name is a revelation / a hush turned hurricane / a child of Mississippi skies / turned midnight rain. they tried to lynch the laughter / smother the sun in his skin / bury his Black breath beneath sin’s southern grin. they feared the

“the good ones die too young” [For My Brother Malcolm-Jamal Warner] they say time heals but time been lyin’— been stretchin’ out grief like old jazz cryin’ on a dusty record player in a room that don’t forget. you walked like purpose, talked like poems, wore your skin like

“the way to sesame” you ask me, child, how to get to sesame street— where colors danced and kindness had feet, where the alphabet sang and monsters were sweet, where every soft soul had a front-row seat. but they cut the cords, closed the gate, turned laughter into a budget

“you are enough” don’t let the silence trick you— you been whole since birth, braided in brilliance, birthed from black earth & stardust prayers your grandmama whispered over collard greens & candles. you are the poem before it’s written, the answer to a question this world