Rashaun J. Allen | #TheBluesCryForARevolution
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Author. Professor. Alumni Fulbright Scholar. Sigma Man. Order #TheBluesCryForARevolution
Joined June 2011
"RXR builds a luxury apartment on top of unmarked gr"RXR builds a luxury apartment on top of unmarked graves" could have easily been a headline on a Westchester paper. #Artswestchester #blackpoetry #art
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Submit to the Fall 2025 Issue of The Greensboro Review! Our reading period is open now until January 1st!
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So cool!
They are in totally different and very unrelated fields but you can tell they genuinely learnt about it regardless. This is the style that'll have you bouncing your head every Sunday morning 💕
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I must be late to the party. But I just learned #flip is being discontinued or swallowed up into #microsoftteams. Whatever the case, I'll have to figure out a significant change to my online courses.
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Wow. This is interesting. But not surprising.
Breaking news 😆: A new study finds members of Congress whose families once owned slaves are substantially wealthier than those whose families did not. #slaveryarchive
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If I’m @VP, I pay @KevOnStage, Tony Baker and Takia to make this a campaign ad ASAPtually. Y’all watch until the end.
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#MyTokyoMarathon Share your thoughts on TOKYO MARATHON Tokyo Marathon 2025 entry is now open! Why do you choose to run the Tokyo Marathon? What makes the Tokyo Marathon so special? What does the Tokyo Marathon mean to you? ↓
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Viet Thanh Nguyen traces American empire from the Vietnam War to the genocide in Gaza and beyond: “You cannot separate the domestic politics of the United States – its inequities, its contradictions, its oppressions – from what the United States does outside of this country.”
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If you know anyone over the age of 60 years old that’s interested in auditing a class at Brooklyn College. Let them know it’s $50/course AND you get gym and pool access for the semester. 🙏🏾‼️
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Thank you! Some folks questioning her blackness probably can't describe their own lineage beyond one or two grandparents.
Black people have never practiced racial gatekeeping in ways that would deny the racial legitimacy of someone like Kamala Harris, who is: 1) the child of a Black parent; 2) phenotypically Black; 3) self-identified as Black; and 4) actively and proudly engages Black institutions,
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The meeting was over. I was still confused. So I asked what that was about & who is Dr. Sellers? Miss Sellers, NOT MY MOM, said: "White people are stupid." Here's another story: After Brown vs. Board THOUSANDS of Black teachers lost their jobs https://t.co/MZDkhx99bW
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North Carolina teacher Valencia Abbott reflects on the power of Black teachers in her life and the many forced from the classroom after the Supreme Court ruling.
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The NABJ interview was tough to watch.
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Side note: I wrote all this out and forgot to involve the #WritingCommunity
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Although, a study did not show RXR had indeed built upon unmarked graves. At 55 Clinton Place, New Rochelle along the plaza between One Clinton Park and Two Clinton Park you can find my poem "Unforget" installed. Thank you to everyone who made this possible! #blackpoetry #art
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In a small amount of time I learned a lot about the New Rochelle landscape. For one, where RXR was building possibly wasn't the only unmarked grave site in New Rochelle.
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This time I was connected with several local historians like Barbara Davis, Linda Tarrant-Reid and Donna Landirone, a descendant of a previously enslaved person in New Rochelle, via Angela Farris, President of New Ro's AAAC.
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Deep like searching through Archives and talking to people like I did to uncover my own ancestors had been enslaved in the Caribbean back when I was a Fulbright Scholar.
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Fast forward, to last November, I got the email to write it. But the writing process wasn't just scribbling at my desk. I had to connect deeper with the community for it to be genuine.
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