Christopher A. Kess
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Baltimore. Theatre. Books. Orioles. Ravens.
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It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚
#blackbooksky #booksky
Day 6: “The Fire Next Time” by James Baldwin
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Day 6: “The Fire Next Time” by James Baldwin
November 18, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚
#blackbooksky #booksky
Day 6: “The Fire Next Time” by James Baldwin
#blackbooksky #booksky
Day 6: “The Fire Next Time” by James Baldwin
Miss you, auntie
November 17, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Miss you, auntie
Just sitting in the corner doing nothing. I feel like I should be doing something.
November 10, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Just sitting in the corner doing nothing. I feel like I should be doing something.
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚
#blackbooksky #booksky
Day 5: “Peace is Every Step” by Thich Nhat Hanh
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Day 5: “Peace is Every Step” by Thich Nhat Hanh
November 2, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚
#blackbooksky #booksky
Day 5: “Peace is Every Step” by Thich Nhat Hanh
#blackbooksky #booksky
Day 5: “Peace is Every Step” by Thich Nhat Hanh
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A Black product manager is fighting back. Companies need to learn there's a cost to 'bending the knee' when it comes to this administration. Hope the plaintiff wins!!
www.hrdive.com/news/ibm-fir...
www.hrdive.com/news/ibm-fir...
IBM fired Black executives to ‘appease’ Trump, lawsuit claims
The company previously faced a series of lawsuits alleging that its DEI programs discriminated against White male employees.
www.hrdive.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:00 AM
A Black product manager is fighting back. Companies need to learn there's a cost to 'bending the knee' when it comes to this administration. Hope the plaintiff wins!!
www.hrdive.com/news/ibm-fir...
www.hrdive.com/news/ibm-fir...
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚
#blackbooksky #booksky
Day 4: “Ethical Ambition” by Derrick Bell
#blackbooksky #booksky
Day 4: “Ethical Ambition” by Derrick Bell
November 1, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚
#blackbooksky #booksky
Day 4: “Ethical Ambition” by Derrick Bell
#blackbooksky #booksky
Day 4: “Ethical Ambition” by Derrick Bell
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚
#blackbooksky #booksky
Day 3: “Love Poems” by Nikki Giovanni
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Day 3: “Love Poems” by Nikki Giovanni
October 30, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚
#blackbooksky #booksky
Day 3: “Love Poems” by Nikki Giovanni
#blackbooksky #booksky
Day 3: “Love Poems” by Nikki Giovanni
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Baltimore Beat is proud to announce our selection as a Report for America host newsroom. www.reportforamerica.org/2024/12/17/r...
Report for America announces 100+ newsroom partners and the opening of new corps member applications - Report for America
Report for America announces 100+ newsroom partners and the opening of new corps member applications Selections include 66 local newsroom partners and corps member positions, 35 accelerator program pa...
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December 17, 2024 at 3:16 PM
Baltimore Beat is proud to announce our selection as a Report for America host newsroom. www.reportforamerica.org/2024/12/17/r...
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Orioles sign veteran Japanese pitcher Tomoyuki Sugano to one-year deal
Orioles sign veteran Japanese pitcher Tomoyuki Sugano
The 35-year-old Sugano has spent his entire 12-year career with the Yomiuri Giants of the NPB’s Central League, and he’s the league’s reining MVP after posting a 1.67 ERA in 156 2/3 innings.
buff.ly
December 17, 2024 at 1:07 AM
Orioles sign veteran Japanese pitcher Tomoyuki Sugano to one-year deal
Billy Bob Bundleroosky
None of my hardcore #football fan family could tell me who this player was. I mean, the pic is from the late 70s or early 80s, but I could see who it was.
December 13, 2024 at 3:26 AM
Billy Bob Bundleroosky
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚
#blackbooksky #booksky
Day 2: “Selected Poems of Langston Hughes”
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Day 2: “Selected Poems of Langston Hughes”
December 12, 2024 at 11:58 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚
#blackbooksky #booksky
Day 2: “Selected Poems of Langston Hughes”
#blackbooksky #booksky
Day 2: “Selected Poems of Langston Hughes”
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Nikki Giovanni 🖤
There aren't enough hearts
There aren't enough hearts
December 12, 2024 at 2:09 AM
Nikki Giovanni 🖤
There aren't enough hearts
There aren't enough hearts
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚
#blackbooksky #booksky
Day 1: "Whispers, Secrets and Promises" by E. Ethelbert Miller
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Day 1: "Whispers, Secrets and Promises" by E. Ethelbert Miller
December 12, 2024 at 2:44 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚
#blackbooksky #booksky
Day 1: "Whispers, Secrets and Promises" by E. Ethelbert Miller
#blackbooksky #booksky
Day 1: "Whispers, Secrets and Promises" by E. Ethelbert Miller
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Every big story that comes out of maryland has a "I went to high school with that guy" factor
December 10, 2024 at 12:02 PM
Every big story that comes out of maryland has a "I went to high school with that guy" factor
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"I am so perfect so divine so ethereal so surreal
I cannot be comprehended
except by my permission
I mean . . . I . . . can fly
Like a bird in the sky."
Nikki Giovanni: Ego Tripping
To the woman who gave us so much joy in with her words (which we need now more than ever): Thank you. Rest. Onward
I cannot be comprehended
except by my permission
I mean . . . I . . . can fly
Like a bird in the sky."
Nikki Giovanni: Ego Tripping
To the woman who gave us so much joy in with her words (which we need now more than ever): Thank you. Rest. Onward
December 10, 2024 at 9:37 AM
"I am so perfect so divine so ethereal so surreal
I cannot be comprehended
except by my permission
I mean . . . I . . . can fly
Like a bird in the sky."
Nikki Giovanni: Ego Tripping
To the woman who gave us so much joy in with her words (which we need now more than ever): Thank you. Rest. Onward
I cannot be comprehended
except by my permission
I mean . . . I . . . can fly
Like a bird in the sky."
Nikki Giovanni: Ego Tripping
To the woman who gave us so much joy in with her words (which we need now more than ever): Thank you. Rest. Onward
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From an interview I did with Nikki Giovanni back in 2017:
December 10, 2024 at 3:17 AM
From an interview I did with Nikki Giovanni back in 2017:
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“Writers don’t write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don’t. …If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.”
— Nikki Giovanni
RIP, genius….
#WritingCommunity #writing
— Nikki Giovanni
RIP, genius….
#WritingCommunity #writing
December 10, 2024 at 3:27 AM
“Writers don’t write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don’t. …If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.”
— Nikki Giovanni
RIP, genius….
#WritingCommunity #writing
— Nikki Giovanni
RIP, genius….
#WritingCommunity #writing
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The greatest. Rest deeply Mother Nikki Giovanni. 🖤💔❤️
December 10, 2024 at 3:55 AM
The greatest. Rest deeply Mother Nikki Giovanni. 🖤💔❤️
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The women gather because it is not unusual to seek comfort in our hours of stress.
A man must be buried.
It is not unusual that the old bury the young though it is an abomination.
RIP 🕯️
Nikki Giovanni (1943-2024)
A man must be buried.
It is not unusual that the old bury the young though it is an abomination.
RIP 🕯️
Nikki Giovanni (1943-2024)
December 10, 2024 at 3:39 AM
The women gather because it is not unusual to seek comfort in our hours of stress.
A man must be buried.
It is not unusual that the old bury the young though it is an abomination.
RIP 🕯️
Nikki Giovanni (1943-2024)
A man must be buried.
It is not unusual that the old bury the young though it is an abomination.
RIP 🕯️
Nikki Giovanni (1943-2024)
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Never forget that she got “thug life” tatted on her as a tribute to Pac
December 10, 2024 at 3:28 AM
Never forget that she got “thug life” tatted on her as a tribute to Pac
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This is an incalculable loss but Nikki Giovanni lived a grand and interesting life; that will always be a gift. May she rest in power.
Nikki Giovanni will forever be a legend. This headline doesn't do her the justice she deserves. www.wdbj7.com/2024/12/10/w...
Well-known Virginia Tech professor dies at 81
Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.
www.wdbj7.com
December 10, 2024 at 3:42 AM
This is an incalculable loss but Nikki Giovanni lived a grand and interesting life; that will always be a gift. May she rest in power.
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I return to this poem often, and have posted it around my neighborhood when the times call for it.
Today is as good as any day to return to it.
Today is as good as any day to return to it.
December 10, 2024 at 3:47 AM
I return to this poem often, and have posted it around my neighborhood when the times call for it.
Today is as good as any day to return to it.
Today is as good as any day to return to it.
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Years ago, when my dad was running a store-front Black History Museum, he somehow got Nikki Giovanni to come and visit, and they had such an experience that she donated some things from her own family. Since then, she has always made me think of him. Hope they both rest easy.
Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.
Well-known Virginia Tech professor dies at 81
Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.
www.wdbj7.com
December 10, 2024 at 3:09 AM
Years ago, when my dad was running a store-front Black History Museum, he somehow got Nikki Giovanni to come and visit, and they had such an experience that she donated some things from her own family. Since then, she has always made me think of him. Hope they both rest easy.