#kweli

[mortalpractice]

I load my throat

with gunpowder & mother strikes me like a match.

— K-Ming Chang, from "Postcolonial," published in Kweli

[gottahavesoul]

[rapeculturerealities]

Talib Kweli's Harassment & Protecting Black Women Online

Talib Kweli's Harassment Campaign Shows How Unprotected Black Women Are Online and Off

In late July, rapper Talib Kweli posted a lengthy message to his Instagram account, announcing that after 11 years, he was finally leaving T

On July 23, Kweli was suspended for “repeated violations of Twitter rules,” according to a spokesperson for the app, after he spent over two weeks in the mentions of black women who characterized his behavior as harassment. His primary target: A 24-year-old student and activist named Maya Moody, who became Kweli’s obsession after a discussion about colorism in hip-hop went left.

The suspension came nearly two weeks after Kweli began incessantly tweeting at Moody, sometimes for more than 12 hours straight in a single day. During that time, several Black women participated in a campaign to report Kweli for targeted harassment and get him suspended, to no avail.

[bostonpoetryslam]

I pray my dead speak to me // and my dead stay silent I pray my dead speak to me // and my dead say “no” I pray my dead speak to me // and my dead say ________ which I don’t hear // in a foreign language which is to say // my own

Emmanuel Oppong-Yeboah, “kra-din,” published in Kweli

[lifeinpoetry]

I inherited hunger, popped jaw, all teeth, & father taught me how to feast.

Kemi Alabi, from “No More White Girls, or What I Learned from Father,” published in KWELI

[therealbornfree]

Talib Kweli - All of Us feat. Yummy Bingham & Jay Electronica

@talibkweli @jayelectronica 

[diversityinfilmtv]

#BlackGirlMagic: Meet the Creative Gunning to Bring Black Movie-Streaming to the Diaspora

DeShuna Spencer admits the idea of an online library of black indie films started from ambitions she’d admit to being “a little self-serving.”

[sayrealhiphop]

Reflection Eternal feat. Kool G Rap - Ghetto Afterlife (Train Of Thought, 2000)