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Proud and hopeful

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[cheddar-baby]

The worlds hungriest animal

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[ireadyabooks]

Shadowshaper Legacy Excerpt

The epic conclusion to the acclaimed Shadowshaper Cypher trilogy!

Sierra and the shadowshapers have been split apart. Juan, Anthony, and Izzy are in jail, anxiously waiting to find out what will become of them. Back in Brooklyn, the other shadowshapers have been getting threatening messages from whisper wraiths, catching strangely shaped figures stalking them, and fending off random spirits. A war is brewing among the houses, and the very magic of the shadowshapers is at stake. Sierra is determined to protect her own in the coming conflict, even if that means keeping secrets from them. But a deal with Death by one of Sierra’s ancestors has far-reaching consequences in the battles of the present, and as old fates tangle with new powers, Sierra will have to harness the Deck of Worlds and confront her family’s past if she has any hope of saving the future and everyone she loves. Only doing so will mean following the magic to places the shadowshapers have never gone before … and may never return from.

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THE SHADOWSHAPER LEGACY COMES TO ITS EPIC CONCLUSION TODAY!!!!

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Ballroom Royalty 👑

via, Vogues’ Best

[superheroesincolor]

My Super Hero Is Black (2023)

“From the introduction of Black Panther in the 1960s and publisher Stan Lee’s early efforts at addressing systemic racism, to the groundbreaking work of creators like Billy Graham, Christopher Priest, Reggie Hudlin, and Ta-Nehisi Coates, My Super Hero Is Black offers a rich examination, celebration, and historical overview of Marvel’s Black characters and creators. It also includes accounts from prominent Black creators and luminaries about their personal relationships with Marvel super heroes.

Presented by John Jennings—the notable comics scholar, illustrator, editor, writer, teacher, publisher, and #1 New York Times bestselling author—and Angélique Roché—the acclaimed content creator, producer, and the popular host of Marvel Entertainment’s Marvel’s Voices podcast—this milestone work is destined to become a classic and will speak to generations of comics fans and storytellers.”

by John Jennings, Angelique Roche

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John Jennings is a Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside (UCR). Professor Jennings received his MA in Art Education in 1995 and the MFA in Studio with a focus on Graphic Design in 1997 from UIUC. He is an interdisciplinary scholar who examines the visual culture of race in various media forms including film, illustrated fiction, and comics and graphic novels. Jennings is also a curator, graphic novelist, editor, and design theorist whose research interests include the visual culture of Hip Hop, Afrofuturism and politics, Visual Literacy, Horror and the EthnoGothic, and Speculative Design and its applications to visual rhetoric. Jennings is co-editor of the Eisner Award winning collection The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art (Rutgers) and co-founder/organizer of The Schomburg Center’s Black Comic Book Festival in Harlem. Jennings is also a Nasir Jones Hip Hop Studies Fellow at the Hutchins Center at Harvard University.

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The art of Mshindo Kuumba!

[im-the-punk-who]

Image description: A series of ten tweets from Jeremy Slevin that read:

“As Jews we are told from a young age that our identities are intrinsically tied to the modern State of Israel. It is taught to us in Hebrew School, in services, and is a deeply held belief by many of our parents, grandparents and family members. It is reinforced by media and politicians who repeatedly link Jewish identity with the State of Israel. The flip side of this message is that criticism of Israel is a negation of our identity. Even if not explicitly anti-Semitic, the thinking goes, those who criticize Israel must be doing so because they harbor some anti-Semitic attitudes. This conflation of religious/communal identity with a far away nation state is reinforced constantly and repeatedly. Palestinians do not even factor into this story. When reality forces us to reckon with their existence, we are told they are terrorists—warmongers who hate the Jews and are violent by nature (this is Islamophobia btw). The story of the Nakba—the mass expulsion of Palestinians from their ancestral land in 1948–is left out entirely. 1948 is merely the year Israel gained independence. Who knew Palestinians were part of that story? Needless to say, the constant conflation of Jewish identity with one state’s politics is not Good for the Jews. It reduces the personal to the political. It strips Jews of the ability to define their own relationship with their identity. For non-Jews it signals that if you support Israeli policies, then you can’t be anti-Semitic and that if you are critical of Israeli policies you therefore hate the Jews, both of which are lies. It can be very difficult to unlearn.

For years I understood that Netanyahu and settlers were bad actors, but my sensors would go off when I heard people talk about boycotts or divestment. Israel may not be perfect , the thinking went, but grassroots efforts to change those policies *must be* antisemitic.

In truth, Israel is a state, like many others, founded on the displacement of others. Its Jewish exclusivity is predicated on the exclusion of millions who continue to live on that land.

To recognize that Israel is a state, like others, that oppresses and dispossess the powerless. And that the only way to end that oppression is to give those people equal rights and self-determination - just as we yearned for as Jews.“

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New Orleans, c.1961.

[diasporic-streets]

1963 rally against police brutality

[nealzonwheelz]

We're fighting our grandparents fights.

[jazz-improvisation]

Miles Davis and Charlie Rouse

[twixnmix]

The Jackson 5 and Bob Marley photographed by Fin Costello in Jamaica, 1975.

The Jackson 5 performed at National Stadium in Kingston on March 8, 1975. Bob Marley & The Wailers were also on the bill. Prior to the concert, the Jackson 5 visited Bob Marley at his home at 56 Hope Road.

[twixnmix]

Eartha Kitt as Catwoman on set of the television series Batman. Episode: “The Funny Feline Felonies” - Airdate: December 28, 1967

[twixnmix]

1980s New York City Street Style by Jamel Shabazz

[conelradstation]

A reminder that Miles Davis was a horrible, horrible man. From Jazz (dir. Ken Burns, 2001)

[spanish-g0ld]

“My name is Gabriel, Im 25 and ive been homeless for a year and a half. I was raised by my aunt who sold her house and left the state. Around the same time I lost my job and my first car was t-boned. I got a jeep which is my dream car because of insurance, I lived out of my jeep which stopped working a month afterwards with my dog for most of that time until I received my tax return and was finally able to get it moving again.

After getting it fixed a friend let me stay with them. My dad and my dog died around the same time, I never knew my dad much and then I had to realize I never would. I had gotten my dog at the beginning of the year before and raised him from a puppy, he was an american akita named Xten and i miss him more than anything. He was with me the whole time i was homeless and kept me going alot of the time, i feel like i let him down honestly.

Then I got kicked out of my friends house because of a argument, and later that night put in the hospital with a concussion and broken hand when someone came and punched me from behind at a shopping center. I lost my memory of the last few days and most of the possessions I had managed to hold on to when they left all of my things at a donation box in the rain.

My girlfriend, her cousin, and my bestfriend managed to get a few of my things they knew were mine. My girlfriend and her cousin are both amazing people and I wouldn't have made it this long without them, especially the woman who stood beside me even when i was down.

My bestfriend got me a job at a grocery store and I eventually managed to buy a car from his parents, the car broke down on me at an intersection and was eventually towed and I got fired from my job. The previously mentioned cousin of my girlfriend purchased me a tent, and I had been living in it and keeping my things there since I started at the job my friend had gotten me.”

Just trying to stay warm, organized by Gabriel McAdams

I don't want to offend anyone but I'm desperate and would be thankful for anything you could … Gabriel McAdams needs your support for Just t

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[Drawing of 2 bears drinking coffee in a bed while snow falls in a window in the background. There is a caption that says “It’s okay if your depression makes the holidays harder.”]

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