This is my grandfather from Newberry, SC. Forced to the cotton fields at 4. He couldn’t go to school. He ran away at 16 to NYC (12yrs of picking 10 hours a day). Attended a CUNY, &became a contractor. My twin. Died in 2018 at 72. Was extremely tough on us. Forever my hero.

I can’t stand dark mode

People forget about him. We will not. Remembering Michael K. Williams. November 22, 1966-Sept. 6, 2021

social anxiety so bad i wonder if i’m welcome at places i was invited to

I really need directors to actually speak to Black Muslims before throwing them into a movie. It never seems authentic

The south and west are always the worst neighborhoods in the urban cities why?

I feel like Denzel should not have been in Highest 2 Lowest and that’s my favorite actor who I want in everything. But it really didn’t work. Like why is Ice Spice talking to THEE Denzel Washington in the movie? Why was ASAP Rocky even allowed near him?

Despite my fence foundation and yard being destroyed by investors this weekend, my hopes are high. I’m building a city for Black Americans. Nothing will stop my mission.

Reminds me of my name and my daughters names. I completely made up my first daughter’s name. I found that it had a meaning in Hebrew after. Only to see a girl who’s a friend of a friend name her daughter after mine and pronounced it wrong.

Woman who grew up in Southern California says she saw first hand out illegals qualify for Section 8 and all our benefits “I saw exactly how they did it and what they did and how they were able to get away with it for so long. So how they would do it is when you fill out these

Black people need to use bankruptcy more often. This is smart.

unfortunately your ability to move on is dependent on how high your self-esteem and self-respect is

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i just saw a tiktok that said “funny enough we had the most friends when we were the worst version of ourselves” that is louuuddddd

If it’s not Black American Owned it’s Not Black Owned

"THATS UM-.. *snaps 3x* DAMN!"

And yes, I still slap disrespectful bitches.

i don't think people understand…anxiety is so painful…it actually physically hurts.

@JBlunt1018 Do you what it feels like to descend from 246 years of U.S. chattel slavery and a century of JIM CROW SEMI SLAVERY RACIAL TERRORISM APARTHEID SEGREGATION, only to finally secure a some semblance of humanity through civil rights legislation, and then watch the government pass the

This has been very violent like this since before I was born. My Caribbean family sells on the Parkway every year. My last year attending was when I had to hide under our tent table from gun shots with my 4 yr old in my hand. But nope no Caribbean’s blamed

So Jouvert just happened in Brooklyn. 4 people shot. 1 person stabbed. Two weeks ago in the very same neighborhood, 11 people were shot at a Caribbean club and 3 of them died. Did any of that make the news? Did anyone blame all Caribbean folks?