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Write About Now @wanpoetry reported a video of Ebony Stewart’s poem.

Keep in mind Amir Safi and his company Write About Now do not own it!

Ebony Stewart’s response:

[IS THIS YALLS KING]

What does it mean when everyone else can share their work from a platform that only exists and profits from the use of other people's work, but I can't?

What is the problem that the founder of Write About Now has with me specifically?

What does it mean that Amir Safi doesn’t want my poetry (which is also my livelihood) to be seen, shared, or praised?

Those of you who started following Write About Now years ago and use to see me host and slam all the time... You never wondered why you all of a sudden stopped seeing me all together?

How many female hosts has Write About Now gone through since me?

How many Black womxn does it take to fill one Ebony Stewart's shoes?

Do yall only consider abuse to be physical violence such as r*pe & sexual assault?

What do you consider harm?

What happens to "communities" ran by a man (or men) who abuse their power and their victims never say anything?

What happens when a man or men or your abuser brings you further harm and tries to erase you?

Who protects the survivors and how do all the wordsmiths, activist, and guardians of poetry do that?

Does your king listen to you? Value you? Or are you just a pawn?

Warning: Be leary of a man who mankeeps, lack integrity, and builds on the backs of Black people & womxn, but is always the one who'll claim they have been done wrong.

Proof Amir Safi is out of line:

[...PEOPLE WILL JUS HATE TUESDAY OR WEDNESDAY, UNTIL ALL YO KINFOLK IS GONE]

The poem MONDAYS is from back in 2016 when Write About Now accompanied and worked with me at MY show for MY family in Baytown, TX. So to record, profit off of my work and likeness (which I never asked to get paid for or received money from OR charged Write About Now my rate to do anything - EVER), give me "permission" (after 4 or 5yrs) to use my work (they profited or gained numbers from), then site me for copyright infringement in 2026 is harmful wild work.

I have ALWAYS been about community and what is best for the community. I try and explain individualism all the time in this community. A lot of poets don't wanna pick a side because you fear you will be blocked or your work will be deleted and existence erased. So you support the platform as a way to get something from it and bootleg your work by downloading it or screen recording it, because an organization says your work is there's for as long as they get to make money off of you. For as long as it doesn't affect their income. And for however long they wanna hold a goofy grudge against you.

I know a lot of poets wanna go viral so bad and will go about it by any means necessary. Even if it means barely getting paid or properly acknowledged.

Ultimately, you just want your work out in the world with the hopes it'll get you more work. Me too. But I actually give and do for the community. So how does it make sense they stopped sharing my work, still have it on their platform, but I can't post it?

Do I just remain their property?

What is the content they own exactly?

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I’m boycotting @wanpoetry, Write About Now (WAN), and anything connected to Amir Safi (@eastdownandbrown) until they publicly apologize to Ebony Stewart and make things right with the poets they promised videos to by giving them their files or offering a new video shoot.

And no, this is not just about Ebony Stewart. Other poets are owed videos too. Amir Safi promised poets video files of their performances as part of their payment. Instead, Amir and WAN have dodged calls and texts from poets trying to get their videos posted or receive their files, only for those same poets to later hear that the files were “lost “or “corrupted”.

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I am yours (if you are mine).

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This is what you get from a DUI hire that dsydrinks!

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Aug-15th: Mystery Black Man Found Lynched in Raleigh NC! Black People are being hunted!

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And yet again ...

[whitesinhistory]

Aug. 16, 1904 | Mob of White Men Lynches Rufus Lesseur in Alabama

Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

On August 16, 1904, a mob of unmasked white men in Marengo County, Alabama, lynched Rufus Lesseur, a 24-year-old Black man, and left his body riddled with bullets.

Less than two days earlier, a white woman in Thomaston, Alabama, claimed that a Black man had entered her home and frightened her. After someone claimed that a hat found near the woman’s home belonged to Mr. Lesseur, a mob of white men formed and kidnapped him. The white men transported a terrified Mr. Lesseur into the nearby woods and locked him in a tiny calaboose, or makeshift jail, for more than a day.

Black people carried a heavy presumption of guilt during this era, and many hundreds of Black people across the South were lynched based on false allegations, accusations of non-serious crimes, and even for non-criminal violations of social customs and racial expectations. Such “offenses” could be something as simple as arguing with or insulting a white person or, as in this case, frightening a white woman.

At 3 am on August 16, without an investigation, trial, conviction of any offense, or a sentencing proceeding, a mob of white men broke into the locked shack, seized Mr. Lesseur, dragged him outside, and lynched him, riddling his body with bullets.

Although he was lynched by a mob of unmasked white men in a town with only 300 residents, state officials claimed that no one could be identified, arrested, or prosecuted for his murder. Mr. Lesseur is one of at least four Black victims of racial terror violence in Marengo County, Alabama, between 1877 and 1950.

Today, the makeshift jail where Mr. Lesseur was unlawfully held still stands in Thomaston. Read EJI's report, Lynching in America, to learn more about the lynching of Rufus Lesseur and this era of racial terror violence.

On August 16, 1904, a mob of unmasked white men in Marengo County, Alabama, lynched Rufus Lesseur, a 24-year-old Black man, and left his body riddled with bullets.

Less than two days earlier, a white woman in Thomaston, Alabama, claimed that a Black man had entered her home and frightened her. After someone claimed that a hat found near the woman’s home belonged to Mr. Lesseur, a mob of white men formed and kidnapped him. The white men transported a terrified Mr. Lesseur into the nearby woods and locked him in a tiny calaboose, or makeshift jail, for more than a day.

Black people carried a heavy presumption of guilt during this era, and many hundreds of Black people across the South were lynched based on false allegations, accusations of non-serious crimes, and even for non-criminal violations of social customs and racial expectations. Such “offenses” could be something as simple as arguing with or insulting a white person or, as in this case, frightening a white woman.

At 3 am on August 16, without an investigation, trial, conviction of any offense, or a sentencing proceeding, a mob of white men broke into the locked shack, seized Mr. Lesseur, dragged him outside, and lynched him, riddling his body with bullets.

Although he was lynched by a mob of unmasked white men in a town with only 300 residents, state officials claimed that no one could be identified, arrested, or prosecuted for his murder. Mr. Lesseur is one of at least four Black victims of racial terror violence in Marengo County, Alabama, between 1877 and 1950.

Today, the makeshift jail where Mr. Lesseur was unlawfully held still stands in Thomaston. Read EJI's report, Lynching in America, to learn more about the lynching of Rufus Lesseur and this era of racial terror violence.

On August 16, 1904, a mob of unmasked white men in Marengo County, Alabama, lynched Rufus Lesseur, a 24-year-old Black man, and left his body riddled with bullets.

Less than two days earlier, a white woman in Thomaston, Alabama, claimed that a Black man had entered her home and frightened her. After someone claimed that a hat found near the woman’s home belonged to Mr. Lesseur, a mob of white men formed and kidnapped him. The white men transported a terrified Mr. Lesseur into the nearby woods and locked him in a tiny calaboose, or makeshift jail, for more than a day.

Black people carried a heavy presumption of guilt during this era, and many hundreds of Black people across the South were lynched based on false allegations, accusations of non-serious crimes, and even for non-criminal violations of social customs and racial expectations. Such “offenses” could be something as simple as arguing with or insulting a white person or, as in this case, frightening a white woman.

At 3 am on August 16, without an investigation, trial, conviction of any offense, or a sentencing proceeding, a mob of white men broke into the locked shack, seized Mr. Lesseur, dragged him outside, and lynched him, riddling his body with bullets.

Although he was lynched by a mob of unmasked white men in a town with only 300 residents, state officials claimed that no one could be identified, arrested, or prosecuted for his murder. Mr. Lesseur is one of at least four Black victims of racial terror violence in Marengo County, Alabama, between 1877 and 1950.

Today, the makeshift jail where Mr. Lesseur was unlawfully held still stands in Thomaston. Read EJI's report, Lynching in America, to learn more about the lynching of Rufus Lesseur and this era of racial terror violence.

Learn about America’s history of racial terror lynchings, and how the effects are still felt today, at http://lynchinginamerica.eji.org.

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Aug. 15, 1966 | Black Church Is Firebombed in All-White Rhode Island Neighborhood

Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

Just after midnight on August 15, 1966, three firebombs were hurled through the windows of Holy Cross Church of God in Christ, a Black church in Providence, Rhode Island. The church had opened five weeks prior in an all-white part of the Federal Hill neighborhood.

The bombs shattered the church’s glass windows and lit several pews in the Sunday school classroom on fire. The perpetrators of the attack also vandalized a pillar by the church’s main entrance with a racial slur.

The bombing took place amidst a summer of virulent white backlash to the Black community’s efforts to integrate city housing and public schools.

At that time, Providence was one of the most racially segregated cities in the country, with nearly 80% of its Black population residing in South Providence. A 1965 University of Rhode Island study concluded that Providence was “as segregated as many cities of the Deep South.”

In Providence, as in much of the country at the time, many of the leaders of the campaign against segregation were prominent figures in the Black church. This made Black churches a target for white fear, anger, and violence.

Over 100 Black churches were burned, bombed, or vandalized during the civil rights era. While the majority of these racially motivated attacks took place in Southern cities such as Birmingham, where explosives placed by a white man killed four young Black girls at Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in 1963, Black churches outside the South were also targeted, in cities including Providence, Philadelphia, and Seattle.

To learn more about the violent white backlash to integration in Northern cities, read EJI’s report, Segregation in America.

Aug 25, 2020 This episode of From Moment to Movement with Tamara Banks features Sarah Collins Rudolph. At the age of 12 she survived the 1963 church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama. Mrs. Collins Rudoph discusses how losing her sister and friends that day impacted her life and how the bigotry of today is as dangerous as it was in the ‘60’s.

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Aug. 14, 1908 | Racial Violence By White Mobs Erupts in Springfield, Illinois

Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

On August 14, 1908, a mob of white citizens gathered at the local jail in Springfield, Illinois, intent on lynching two Black men named George Richardson and Joe James. When the would-be lynch mob learned that the men had been taken from the jail to another city, a violent riot broke out.

Some members of the mob destroyed the business of Henry Loper, a man rumored to have helped transport Mr. Richardson and Mr. James from the jail. Others, convinced the men were still in the jail, attacked police and militia stationed at the facility. The two mob groups then rejoined and descended on homes and businesses in Springfield’s Black neighborhoods, stealing close to $150,000 worth of property and setting whole blocks on fire.

The violence climaxed early the next morning with the lynching of two Black men. After Scott Burton tried to defend himself against the attackers, he was shot four times, dragged through the streets, then hanged and mutilated until the militia interceded. William Donegan, an 84-year-old Black man married to a white woman, was taken from his home and hanged from a tree across the street, where his assailants cut his throat and stabbed him. Mr. Donegan was still alive when the militia arrived at the scene but died the next morning.

Amidst the terror of the riot, which left an estimated seven people dead, hundreds of Black citizens sought National Guard protection at nearby Camp Lincoln. Others fled the city. Police arrested 150 people suspected of participating in the violence, and 117 were indicted. Of the three individuals indicted for murder, one committed suicide and two were acquitted.

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"I don't know what most white people in this country feel, but I can only conclude what they feel from the state of their institutions. I don't know if white Christians hate Negroes or not, but I know that we have a Christian Church, which is white and a Christian Church, which is Black.

I know as Malcolm X once put it, that the most segregated hour in American life is high noon on Sunday. That says a great deal for me about a Christian nation, it means I can't afford to trust most white Christians and certainly cannot trust the Christian Church.

I don't know whether the labour unions and their bosses really hate me. That doesn't matter. But I know I'm not in their unions. I don't know if the real estate lobby has anything against Black people, but I know the real estate lobby is keeping me in the ghetto. I don't know if the board of education hates Black people, but I know the textbooks they give my children to read, and the schools that we have to go to.

Now this is the evidence. You want me to make an act of faith, risking myself, my life, my woman, my assistant, my children on some idealism, which you assure only exists in America, which I have never seen."

-James Baldwin, 1968, on the Dick Cavett Show (clip from I Am Not Your Negro)

Stop asking Black people to be patient and have faith. Earn it.

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Aug. 14, 1908 | Racial Violence By White Mobs Erupts in Springfield, Illinois

Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

On August 14, 1908, a mob of white citizens gathered at the local jail in Springfield, Illinois, intent on lynching two Black men named George Richardson and Joe James. When the would-be lynch mob learned that the men had been taken from the jail to another city, a violent riot broke out.

Some members of the mob destroyed the business of Henry Loper, a man rumored to have helped transport Mr. Richardson and Mr. James from the jail. Others, convinced the men were still in the jail, attacked police and militia stationed at the facility. The two mob groups then rejoined and descended on homes and businesses in Springfield’s Black neighborhoods, stealing close to $150,000 worth of property and setting whole blocks on fire.

The violence climaxed early the next morning with the lynching of two Black men. After Scott Burton tried to defend himself against the attackers, he was shot four times, dragged through the streets, then hanged and mutilated until the militia interceded. William Donegan, an 84-year-old Black man married to a white woman, was taken from his home and hanged from a tree across the street, where his assailants cut his throat and stabbed him. Mr. Donegan was still alive when the militia arrived at the scene but died the next morning.

Amidst the terror of the riot, which left an estimated seven people dead, hundreds of Black citizens sought National Guard protection at nearby Camp Lincoln. Others fled the city. Police arrested 150 people suspected of participating in the violence, and 117 were indicted. Of the three individuals indicted for murder, one committed suicide and two were acquitted.

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The Baltimore Afro-American, commonly known as The Afro or Afro News, is a weekly African American newspaper published in Baltimore. It is the flagship newspaper of the AFRO-American chain and the longest-running African American family-owned newspaper in the US.

The Afro-American was established in 1899 as the Home Protector. It became the Afro-American on August 13, 1892. In the spring of 1895, the Northwestern Family Supply Company assumed control of the Afro-American. John H. Murphy, Sr., the head of the printing press at the paper, purchased the newspaper’s printing equipment for $200. The Afro-American has been owned and operated by the Murphy family.

Murphy was born into slavery and served in the Civil War in the US Colored Troops, reaching the rank of sergeant. He was active with the Bethel AME Church in Baltimore. Murphy merged his church publication, The Sunday School Helper, with two other church publications, The Ledger and The Afro-American.

Carl J. Murphy took control in 1922, serving as its editor for 45 years. He expanded the paper to have nine national editions, with papers published in 13 cities.

He used the editorial pages of The AFRO-American to push for the hiring of African Americans by Baltimore’s police and fire departments, to press for African American representation in the legislature, and to advocate for the establishment of a state-supported university to educate African Americans.

During WWII, the AFRO-American deployed several reporters to Europe, the Aleutians, Africa, Japan, and other parts of the South Pacific. Elizabeth Murphy Phillips Moss was the first Black female correspondent.

The AFRO-American has employed many African American journalists and intellectuals, including Langston Hughes, William Worthy, and J. Saunders Redding. It became the first African American newspaper to employ a female sportswriter when it hired Lillian Johnson and Nell Dodson. Romare Bearden began his career as a cartoonist.

Sam Lacy was hired as the sports editor.

Murphy and his son, Carl J. Murphy, have been posthumously inducted into the MDDC Press Association’s Hall of Fame. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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Dr. Eva Beatrice Dykes (August 13, 1893 – October 29, 1986) became the first Black woman in the US to complete the required coursework for a Ph.D. and the third African American woman to receive a doctoral degree. Two other Black women, Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander and Georgiana Simpson, received their Ph.D. in the same year as she did. Still, because their respective commencement ceremonies took place earlier, she is considered the third woman to receive the advanced degree.

She was born in DC and attended M Street High School. In 1914, she graduated Summa Cum Laude from Howard University with a BA in English. After spending one year teaching at Walden University in Nashville, she decided to seek an MA at Radcliffe College. Radcliffe would not accept her degree from Howard, forcing her to earn a second BA in English from Radcliffe. She graduated Magna Cum Laude with an MA from Radcliffe. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She completed her Ph.D. Her dissertation focused on Alexander Pope’s views on slavery and his influence on American writers.

She began teaching at Dunbar High School. She accepted a position teaching English at Howard University. She published several scholarly works, including The Negro in English Romantic Thought, which reflected her growing interest in examining Black History and literature in England.

A member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church since 1920, she left Howard University to begin teaching at Oakwood College. She helped the school gain accreditation. She retired from full-time teaching in 1968.

For 50 years, she wrote a regular column for the Adventist publication Message Magazine. The library at Oakwood College is named in her honor. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #phibetakappa #deltasigmatheta

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On August 13, 1955, three white men shot and killed Lamar Smith, a 63-year-old veteran and voting rights activist, at the county courthouse in Brookhaven, Mississippi. Mr. Smith was just one of the many Black leaders murdered in the 20th century in the South, in places where the numbers of Black eligible voters could have changed the outcome of elections. Learn more about this injustice: https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/aug/13

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Aug. 12, 1903 | After Lynching Attempt, White Mobs Drive Black Residents Out of TX Town

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On August 12, 1903, after a white mob attempted to lynch a Black man and failed in their efforts, armed white residents engaged in widespread racial terrorism that forced Black residents to flee Whitesboro, Texas.

Lynching was a tool of racial terror used to maintain white supremacy and dominance by instilling fear in the entire Black community. It was common during this era of racial terrorism for a white mob’s focus to expand beyond a specific person accused of an offense. Lynch mobs frequently targeted members of a suspect’s family, neighbors, or any and all Black people unfortunate enough to be in the mob’s path, and it was not uncommon for Black people in the vicinity of white mobs to be beaten or killed as collateral violence.

Earlier in the day, a Black man, known as “Brown,” had been arrested after a local white woman reported that she had been criminally assaulted by a Black man. He was taken from jail by a mob of at least 100 white men and boys and hanged from a tree as the mob attempted to violently coerce a confession from him. As he was on the verge of becoming unconscious, a sheriff's posse cut Mr. Brown down, determined he was still alive, and took him back into custody.

As news spread that they had failed in their attempt to lynch this Black man, the white mob unleashed a reign of terror on the entire Black community in Whitesboro. The mob went from house to house in the town’s Black neighborhood, destroying the homes, beating the Black people inside, and ordering all of them to leave Whitesboro. Black people fled by train that night, with contemporary news sources reporting that “outgoing trains on all roads were filled” with Black people. Hundreds of shots were reportedly fired by the armed mob, but the death toll of the terror remains unknown. Local authorities made no attempt to protect the town’s Black residents.

A few days later, armed white men rounded up the few remaining Black people in town, reported as just 17 people. The mob tied these 17 individuals to trees and whipped them mercilessly, ordering them again to leave town. Contemporary reports noted that after the conclusion of this violence, not a single Black person remained in Whitesboro.

Learn more about how over 6,500 Black women, men, and children were victims of racial terror lynching and thousands more were displaced, beaten, and traumatized by white mob violence in the U.S. between 1865 and 1950.

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Aug. 11, 2017 | White Supremacists Rally in Charlottesville, Virginia

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On the evening of August 11, 2017, more than 200 members of white supremacist, alt-right, neo-Nazi, and pro-Confederate groups from throughout the country converged on the University of Virginia in Charlottesville for a torch-lit march through central campus shouting slogans like “Blood and soil!” “You will not replace us!” “Jews will not replace us!” and “White lives matter!” The procession was the precursor to a planned “Unite the Right” rally scheduled to take place the next day to protest the Charlottesville City Council’s recent vote to remove a Confederate monument dedicated to Robert E. Lee. As the marchers paraded through the University’s campus, counter-protests quickly emerged and tensions escalated.

The next day, the rally began to form in recently renamed Emancipation Park, where the Lee statue stood. White nationalist rally-goers, many heavily armed, filed into the park amid the outcry of a diverse gathering of counter-protesters. Those opposing the white nationalists included members of anti-fascist groups, Black Lives Matter supporters, local residents, church congregations, and civil rights leaders. In the absence of police intervention, clashes between rally-goers and counter-protesters became more volatile and eventually led law enforcement to declare the rally an unlawful assembly.

As rally-goers and counter-protesters dispersed, sporadic clashes continued. Approximately two hours after the City of Charlottesville declared a local state of emergency, a neo-Nazi named James Alex Fields Jr. drove his car directly into a crowd of counter-protesters, wounding at least 18 people and killing a 32-year-old white woman named Heather Heyer.

The events in Charlottesville, Virginia, sparked national press coverage and debate regarding race, white supremacy, and Confederate iconography.

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Lola Kurosaki as Monkey D. Luffy

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