The main side blog of Afromiscreant:

I guess I am one of the last few Black women in this space. Just here for reasons. Also remember when I had a cat? Yeah good times. I am not nice.

[uptownlowdown]

ANDRÉ 3000 as PERCIVAL JENKINS JR. idlewild (2006) dir. bryan barber

[airandangels]

These little-known bank accounts allow Americans with disabilities to save and invest

If you're an American with a disability who receives government assistance, you likely qualify for an ABLE account, or you may starting next

The age of eligibility for an ABLE account, allowing USAmerican disabled people to save up money without losing their government assistance for having “too much,” is going to go up to cover disabilities diagnosed by age 46 (currently it’s age 26), meaning a much larger number of people will be able to access them. As the article notes, many Americans don’t know these accounts exist, let alone whether they or someone they care for could qualify for one, so please share this information around.

It seems to me it would obviously be better if the “no more than $2000 a month” limit were simply removed and disabled people could have whatever savings accounts they chose, but this is heaps better than nothing.

[non-binarypal7]

Effective as of January 1, 2026, eligibility has expanded to folks whose disabled diagnosis was established prior to turning 46 years old

About ABLE Accounts An ABLE account is a savings and / or investment option for people with disabilities who qualify. It falls under Section

[petervintonjr]

Everybody raise a glass to activist Opal Lee, one of the driving forces behind how we even got a Juneteenth in the first place.

Born Opal Flake in 1926 Texas, her home burned down when she was a small child and the family moved to Fort Worth. In 1939 the family purchased a home in a south side Fort Worth neighborhood --the first Black family to do so, which didn't sit well with some of the neighbors, and after only a few weeks an angry mob burned the house down. Despite these dual childhood traumas, Opal graduated from high school in 1943, and then eventually from Wiley College in 1953. She took a job teaching at an elementary school in Fort Worth, married fellow educator Dale Lee, and ultimately earned a Master's in counseling in 1968, from the North Texas State University (today the University of North Texas). She retired from her career in education in 1977 at the age of 51... and was clearly just getting started.

Beginning with a post-retirement career supervising a local food bank and its adjacent 13-acre farm, expanding it to a 33,000 sq. foot facility that today serves upwards of 500 families a day. More recently she also founded Transform 1012 N. Main Street, a coalition of Fort Worth area nonprofits and arts organizations aiming to reconstruct a former Ku Klux Klan auditorium into the Fred Rouse Arts Center (named for a Black man who was lynched by a Fort Worth mob in 1921). But Lee's greatest passion was always aimed toward preservation of local Black history, leading into the founding of the Tarrant County Black Historical and Genealogical Society. It was from this starting point that June 19th began to be more widely acknowledged and celebrated as a yearly event. Each year Lee and other members of the society made a point of walking two and a half miles, symbolically covering the number of years between the formal end of enslavement (i.e., the Emancipation Proclamation) and the time most Texans found out about it.

In 2016, now at the age of 89, Lee took the advice of the society to "go bigger," and walked from Fort Worth to Washington, D.C. (a distance of roughly 1,360 miles), taking more than five months to complete and collecting enthusiastic signatures along the way, in support of the premise of at last elevating Juneteenth to the status of a national holiday. On June 17, 2021, Lee was present at the White House when then-President Joe Biden signed the bill officially marking Juneteenth as an annual federal holiday. Today Lee is the oldest living member of the National Juneteenth Observance Foundation (NJOF), and is both a board member --and Honorary Chair-- of the National Juneteenth Museum. She was named by the Dallas Morning News as 2021's "Unsung Hero of the Pandemic," has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, and in 2024 received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

This past year, Habitat For Humanity built and gifted Opal a new house on the very Fort Worth lot where a racist mob burned down her family's home 85 years prior.

[howardhawkshollywoodannex]

Cora Lee Day in Daughters of the Dust (1991)

[bunbuttbread]

So you're black and you want to see black media from anywhere in the world. I got u.

I'm starting this lil thing where we shout out black media (from anywhere !! So long as it's made by black and features black people predominantly and/or discusses blackness) we watched recently and recommend it to others.

I'll start: have you watched Neptune Frost (2021) yet ?

About university students and coltan miners getting together to become a hacker group as a means for rebellion against fascist authorities ? A musical wherein black queerness is at the forefront of revolution and disrespect of anyone is not only addressed but also nipped at the bud. It's colourful, it's full of emotion, it takes place in Burundi and is all around quite an experience.

YOU CAN WATCH IT ON KANOPY !! Either though a university/college or via the public library.

Everyone is welcome to add on to this btw. It doesn't have to be a movie, so long as it's BLACK MEDIA. Pleaseeeeeee gush about black media.

[todayinhiphophistory]

Today in Hip Hop History:

Yo! MTV Raps debuted on MTV August 6, 1988

[allimocha]

I’m honestly so tired of fandom these days for one simple reason.

People will focus so much on what they want to happen in a story, or what their headcanons are for a story, that it basically becomes the truth for them. So when a show doesn’t go in that direction, they feel betrayed and enraged at the creator. And that’s really discouraging.

Even with characters! Someone might like a character in a piece of media, and share this online with the community. But because in the fandom, they are not liked (whether it be that the character was mean to a fan-favorite, or just what people have speculated about a character) the community will find many reasons to try and convince them their opinion is wrong.

It’s like we can’t just have preferences anymore, it has to either be that you’re right or you’re wrong. And that sucks because fandoms should be the place where you can talk about what you like about a series and how you enjoy it, without being told you’re enjoying it wrong.

[fuckyeslilkim]

'This is my best friend!' Lil' Kim & Missy Elliott behind the scenes of their Vogue shoot, 1998.

[onyichii]

I drew this in 2017

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⭐️ Posting old art to fill up my page. I have new art but I want to share the old ones first.

ONYICHII ©️2017

[miscreant-side-puffs]

Whoa! I love how you got the details on the scarf.

[uptownlowdown]

SISTER ROSETTA THARPE four or five times (1941) dir. john primi

[scarecrow-is-my-boyfriend]

Paul Robeson in “The Emperor Jones”

[blackjame]

I've made posts about this before, but I get infuriated every time I remember that the most pressing issue to some gamers? Was not the rampant greed, negligence, etc on display in the gaming industry.

The signs of decay have long since been there. But a good chunk of them were not worried about games becoming $80. Or that the people who made their favorite games were getting laid off, overworked, or paid pennies while a CEO went home with 10s of millions. Or that AI is ballooning prices and pricing people out of the hobby.

None of that.

To them the issue was a woman protagonist they couldn't sexualize. Or seeing a Black character they couldn't ignore; who was the main character and not a sidekick.

All that energy towards the wrong thing. Galvanizing people towards the nonissue. And now the actual one has reached an apex we likely can't come back from.

And it's the same with movies and television if we're honest. But that's a conversation for another time.

[shereeluvssinners]

spaghettitoesdad

Happy 90th Birthday to the one and only Buddy Guy!!! A true living legend who is still out there blessing us with his music. He’s also the chef’s kiss of the movie “Sinners”. Happy Birthday Mr. Guy! (fun fact, my wife worked for an entertainment magazine in Omaha years ago and got to accompany Mr. Guy to his gig. So cool!!) @therealbuddyguy #buddyguy #sinners #sinnersmovie #blues #theblues

[yukiizip]

Wunmi Mosaku making a guest appearance on A Black Lady Sketch Show.

[dearausten]

not now sweetie, mommy is watching how the massive girlbossification of female characters has led to the belief that weak and vulnerable female characters are badly written characters because apparently every woman needs to be outspoken and witty and snarky and brave in order to be considered “complex” and have any value in a piece of media!!

[chilewithcarnage]

[srdcovka]

[animentality]

[bobcatmoran]

I absolutely blame Facebook for this shift. Words cannot describe how freaking WEIRD it was in the mid-00s when there was suddenly this popular website where you were required to use your real, brickspace name and encouraged to post photos of yourself. Every single bit of Standard Internet Safety prior to then said that you should never ever ever do either of those.

[delphinidin4]

omg 2005/2006. When all our parents, who had been telling us for YEARS to never use our real names on the internet, suddenly all got facebook accounts and started using their real names on the internet like it was totally normal. Complete mental whiplash. Before then, it was WEIRD to use your real name on the internet. Like, people who did that were weirdos.

[arctic-hands]

[Image Description: initial tweet by Mini Modu, @ MinModulation, that says "The idea of the internet as a third space for co-identities, 'avatars', 'pseudonyms', doesn't really exist for normies. They love selfies and I.Ds--the net is purely a marketing platform for their Face, like the mall. They lo..." the tweet gets cut off as it's retweeted by SuRge, @ SRG_Works, who adds "The fact that normies never embraced the idea that the 'net was a great place to have 'alter egos' and just be free from insane societal pressure really is wild. Instead they used the Internet to double down and make it for non-conformists to escape." End I.D]

[sunderwight]

It really is difficult to describe how bizarre that felt, isn't it?

Like imagine you spend most if not all of your childhood hearing "don't feed the bears" and all the reasons why that's a terrible idea. So okay you agree, while life might sometimes present the temptation to feed some bears it's a bad idea and you'll never do it. Still plenty of ways to enjoy nature, after all!

Then one morning you wake up and all the adults and organizations who spent so much time and energy on hammering home that you never, ever, ever feed the bears, are enthusing over this new Bear Feeding Park! Where all you do all day long is go feed bears! And absolutely you must get to the Bear Feeding Park and start hanging out there and throwing parties there and feeding bears, making sure all the important milestones of your life or even just mundane things feature, to some extent, a visit to Bear Feeding Park. Where you feed bears.

And you're like... well, if nothing else, is it somehow less dangerous to feed bears now? The answer to which is no. Not at all. Bear attacks skyrocket to an all-time high and stay there. Somehow this does not actually seem to deter anyone. You suggest that maybe this is a sign that Bear Feeding Park is a bad idea and people are like, oh no, we just need to find other ways to stay Bear Aware. We can't give up going to Bear Feeding Park, after all! You can't get hired unless you've got a good reputation at Bear Feeding Park!

Yeah I'm still not over it. What in the good goddamn fuck, actually.