Leslye Joy Allen
@leslyejoyallen.bsky.social
Historian, Oral Historian, Dramaturge, Agnes Scott College & Georgia State University alum, She/Her,
🚫DMs, 🚫TERFS
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🚫DMs, 🚫TERFS
#ILoveAllOfUs✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼🌈🏳️⚧️™️
https://leslyejoyallen.com/2026/02/10/a-personal-prayer-of-cuba/
And so it is on a Friday. Two Black Queens: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and Queen Latifah (née Dana Elaine Owens).
February 13, 2026 at 12:47 PM
And so it is on a Friday. Two Black Queens: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and Queen Latifah (née Dana Elaine Owens).
This post is in honor of my parents, who joined the ancestors on a February 9th in different years. They taught me the value of research and respect for my people’s history. They carried on a great Black tradition of laughing in the face of adversity. Here is Paul Mooney. All puns intended.
February 9, 2026 at 8:58 PM
This post is in honor of my parents, who joined the ancestors on a February 9th in different years. They taught me the value of research and respect for my people’s history. They carried on a great Black tradition of laughing in the face of adversity. Here is Paul Mooney. All puns intended.
Georgia School Walkout on January 30th! Since Bluesky only allows 4 photos per post, the other 8 frames of participating schools and colleges are in the comments section!
January 30, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Georgia School Walkout on January 30th! Since Bluesky only allows 4 photos per post, the other 8 frames of participating schools and colleges are in the comments section!
These are some more of my children from my home state of Georgia standing up to I.C.E. and in some instances standing up to their principals.
Go my sweet Georgia children!
Go my sweet Georgia children!
January 30, 2026 at 1:32 AM
These are some more of my children from my home state of Georgia standing up to I.C.E. and in some instances standing up to their principals.
Go my sweet Georgia children!
Go my sweet Georgia children!
This is a poster that is located in Greenland. Thanks Malcolm Nance for your recent reportage.
January 28, 2026 at 8:06 PM
This is a poster that is located in Greenland. Thanks Malcolm Nance for your recent reportage.
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Neverending Nina’s Vision
© Leslye Joy Allen
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January 26, 2026 at 3:41 AM
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“The scholar and human rights activist Dr. Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im corrected all of us in my East African History class.”
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Why Sudan’s Genocide/s Get Very Little Attention from Many Pundits on the Political Left
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January 17, 2026 at 1:51 AM
“The scholar and human rights activist Dr. Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im corrected all of us in my East African History class.”
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It’s January 7th and I am late: Happy Birthday Michaela Jaé Rodriguez. 🤎
January 8, 2026 at 1:17 AM
It’s January 7th and I am late: Happy Birthday Michaela Jaé Rodriguez. 🤎
“To soar in creation is to transcend the chaos. To soar is to leave a record of beauty and endurance. To soar is to not know when or where your legacy and your creations will land.” — ©️Leslye Joy Allen
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Soaring While In the Quagmire of Empire
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January 5, 2026 at 1:03 AM
“To soar in creation is to transcend the chaos. To soar is to leave a record of beauty and endurance. To soar is to not know when or where your legacy and your creations will land.” — ©️Leslye Joy Allen
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Happy New Year to The Library Dads (www.thelibrarydads.org) who show up every Saturday with their children at Atlanta’s Public Libraries to insure their children’s love of books and learning.
January 1, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Happy New Year to The Library Dads (www.thelibrarydads.org) who show up every Saturday with their children at Atlanta’s Public Libraries to insure their children’s love of books and learning.
And on this New Year’s Day 2026 in the spirit of my Ancestors, the menu is my Black-eyed Pea Soup, fried Chicken Wings, and fresh Collard Greens prepared with meat from Smoked Turkey Wings, and home grown Tomatoes.
January 1, 2026 at 7:54 PM
And on this New Year’s Day 2026 in the spirit of my Ancestors, the menu is my Black-eyed Pea Soup, fried Chicken Wings, and fresh Collard Greens prepared with meat from Smoked Turkey Wings, and home grown Tomatoes.
I love it when @kamalaharris.com visits her alma mater Howard University!
“I am counting on you as a very proud, proud Bison.”— Kamala Harris
“You know!!!”— Howard U. Students
#Bisons #YouKnow #HBCUs
“I am counting on you as a very proud, proud Bison.”— Kamala Harris
“You know!!!”— Howard U. Students
#Bisons #YouKnow #HBCUs
January 1, 2026 at 4:50 AM
I love it when @kamalaharris.com visits her alma mater Howard University!
“I am counting on you as a very proud, proud Bison.”— Kamala Harris
“You know!!!”— Howard U. Students
#Bisons #YouKnow #HBCUs
“I am counting on you as a very proud, proud Bison.”— Kamala Harris
“You know!!!”— Howard U. Students
#Bisons #YouKnow #HBCUs
My last Substack Essay of 2025 titled “Prose for My 🤎 Sistahs: Pink and Green, One More for AKA
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Prose for My 🤎Sistahs
Pink and Green: One More for AKA
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December 31, 2025 at 11:20 PM
My last Substack Essay of 2025 titled “Prose for My 🤎 Sistahs: Pink and Green, One More for AKA
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Lawd, how I miss Queen Sugar. This is one of my favorite clips from @duvernay.bsky.social’s perfect creation. Have a Sane, Safe, and Soothing Christmas. 🤎✊🏽
December 24, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Lawd, how I miss Queen Sugar. This is one of my favorite clips from @duvernay.bsky.social’s perfect creation. Have a Sane, Safe, and Soothing Christmas. 🤎✊🏽
I woke up with Miriam Makeba on my mind and that glorious song of her’s Patapata from the 1960s and this appeared: The Pathway Schools are winners of the NIAA Challenge Trophy:
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Patapata - M Makeba - Winners of the NIAA Challenge Trophy - @nationalinstituteofallieda9281
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December 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I woke up with Miriam Makeba on my mind and that glorious song of her’s Patapata from the 1960s and this appeared: The Pathway Schools are winners of the NIAA Challenge Trophy:
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This is the Atlanta CommUnity Choir singing Frankie Beverly’s “Before I Let You Go” in the celebration of the reopening of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights.
December 13, 2025 at 12:34 AM
This is the Atlanta CommUnity Choir singing Frankie Beverly’s “Before I Let You Go” in the celebration of the reopening of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights.
This is my First Family Forever. Recently I witnessed Barack with a couple of young families where he held both of their baby girls and say:
“You can’t beat daughters.” — Barack Obama
“You can’t beat daughters.” — Barack Obama
December 11, 2025 at 10:39 PM
This is my First Family Forever. Recently I witnessed Barack with a couple of young families where he held both of their baby girls and say:
“You can’t beat daughters.” — Barack Obama
“You can’t beat daughters.” — Barack Obama
Black Artistry at its finest. My Brother-King Billy Porter is still on the case at excavating the best of us. Do not miss this. 🤎
December 11, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Black Artistry at its finest. My Brother-King Billy Porter is still on the case at excavating the best of us. Do not miss this. 🤎
On her book tour: Kamala Harris and Tennessee State Representative Justin Jones at HBCU Fisk University!
December 2, 2025 at 12:19 PM
On her book tour: Kamala Harris and Tennessee State Representative Justin Jones at HBCU Fisk University!
Happy Thanksgiving.
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A Thanksgiving Moment
Thanks-For-Giving
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November 27, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Happy Thanksgiving.
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Omg!!! This is spectacular 🙌 💪
It’s getting real for Home Depot. The flash mob is only the warm up, the nationwide boycott hits on November 27th.
Chant: “Tax the rich tax, the motherf*cking rich.”
Chant: “Tax the rich tax, the motherf*cking rich.”
November 26, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Omg!!! This is spectacular 🙌 💪
From a few years back. Chelsea Gray (No. 12) makes this backhanded pass to Her Majesty A’ja Wilson (No. 22) of the WNBA’s Las Vegas Aces.
November 26, 2025 at 9:10 PM
From a few years back. Chelsea Gray (No. 12) makes this backhanded pass to Her Majesty A’ja Wilson (No. 22) of the WNBA’s Las Vegas Aces.