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Black American. Wife. BlindianTeenMom. #GenX Nerd

Lawyer➡️Recruiter

Pgh born/Det raised/Chi now

On @americanwritersmuseum.org & Girls Inc of Chicago boards

#Prince #Prince4Ever #Beyonce #BeyHive #BookSky #LawSky #Shakespeare #ShakespeareSunday #DollSky
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Sonya Olds Som (she/her) 💃🏾💜🎶🕊️☔️🐝🖖🏾⚖️📚🍿📺 @sonyaoldssom.bsky.social · Feb 1
Happy #BlackHistoryMonth! I thought I would share on here an article I wrote and posted on LinkedIn for #BHM in 2018 that was inspired by a tweet by one of my favorite Twitter mutuals Tiffany Graves.
#BlackSky
#BlackLawSky
#WakandaForever
#RepresentationMatters

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#RepresentationMatters: The Importance of Black Presidents, Black Panther and Black GCs in Black History Month 2018
No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you. --Althea Gibson None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
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BREAKING: Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights icon and two-time presidential candidate, dies at 84.
Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights icon and two-time presidential candidate, dies at 84
“Our father was a servant leader — not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world,” the Jackson family said in a statement Tuesday.
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February 17, 2026 at 9:36 AM
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Mount up on eagle wings and take your rest Rev. Jackson. #RIP
February 17, 2026 at 10:02 AM
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BREAKING: Reverend Jesse Jackson has passed away at the age of 84 after a lengthy illness 🕊️🕊️
February 17, 2026 at 10:18 AM
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BREAKING: The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader from the era of MLK to Black Lives Matter, has died at 84, his family said.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after King, has died at 84
The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson has died. He was 84. Jackson was a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King and became a leader of the Civil Rights Movement for decades after King was assassinated in 1968.
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February 17, 2026 at 10:19 AM
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You’re welcome,
Most learned reverend sir, into our kingdom
February 17, 2026 at 10:21 AM
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BREAKING NEWS: The Rev. Jesse Jackson was a lifelong civil rights advocate until his death Tuesday at the age of 84.
Longtime civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson dies at 84
The Rev. Jesse Jackson was a lifelong civil rights advocate until his death Tuesday at the age of 84.
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February 17, 2026 at 10:40 AM
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#BESTSONGHEARDTODAY
#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#ElectricGuitarForAll #Music
#MusicChallenge #PurpleRain #PRINCE 🙌💜🥰 #RIP🕯😭

Day 16~Song for rainy day

Purple Rain

#LEGEND #MUSICAL #GENIUS Wish could've seen him.Dedicated to all fans & @joejamespop.bsky.social

#LIVEMUSIC

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Prince - Purple Rain (Live At Paisley Park, 1999)
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February 16, 2026 at 8:29 AM
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panbello.bsky.social
🎵 "Where is my love life?
Tell me, where has it gone?
Somebody please, please
Tell me what the hell is wrong?"🎶

#Prince #Matthew #RobertFink #JohnLNelson #LisaColeman #WendyMelvoin

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Prince - Computer Blue (Scene from Purple Rain, 1984)
YouTube video by e_perez
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February 16, 2026 at 10:29 AM
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neverenoughguitar.bsky.social
'Prince’s Filthy 15' revisits the culture wars of the #80s, when Prince’s bold sexuality, lyrical provocation, & genre-bending innovation collided with the #PMRC & America’s Moral Majority. Available in digital, paperback & hardback @
US: amzn.to/4maiWsY
#Censorship #Prince #CancelCulture
February 16, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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richieroux.bsky.social
2 Hours Of Pure Brilliance 💜
#Prince #Music #Lyrics #PureGenius 👌🎶

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Prince: Love Songs
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February 16, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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ladonna101.bsky.social
Prince’s song “I Would Die 4 U” is featured in the film “Project Hail Mary”.

#Prince #Prince4Ever #IMissUPrince #MinneapolisSound

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Super Bowl Trailer: ‘Project Hail Mary’
Amazon MGM Studios has set a March 20, 2026, release for Project Hail Mary, starring Ryan Gosling.
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February 15, 2026 at 8:47 AM
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😍

#Prince #Prince4Ever #IMissUPrince
Picture of Prince looking off to the side.
February 16, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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Willem de Kooning #morningart
February 15, 2026 at 1:12 PM
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lizzslockeroom.bsky.social Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 15h
Remembering James Ingram on his birthday (February 16, 1952 – January 29, 2019) 💙🕊️

🗣If it’s violins she loves… let them play…
February 17, 2026 at 12:21 AM
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cjprice.bsky.social
DAMN straight heat all the way through!
lizzslockeroom.bsky.social Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 15h
Top songs on the Billboard Hot 100 on this day in 1985:
1. "Careless Whisper" - Wham!
2. "I Want To Know What Love Is" - Foreigner
3. "Easy Lover" - Philip Bailey & Phil Collins
4. "Lover Boy" - Billy Ocean
5. "Method Of Modern Love" - Hall & Oates
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February 17, 2026 at 12:23 AM
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barrybutler9.bsky.social
Skating in the Sixties in Chicago. Warm temps didn't impact the ice today on the Skating Ribbon in Maggie Daley Park. View from the Aon Center.
February 16, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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albumism.com
Zhané released their debut album ‘Pronounced Jah-Nay’ 32 years ago on February 15, 1994

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Rediscover Zhané’s Debut Album ‘Pronounced Jah-Nay’ (1994) | Tribute
The duo’s dynamic debut soundtracked countless parties and inspired plenty of fond memories during the mid ‘90s, cementing its place as one of the decade’s quintessential albums.
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February 16, 2026 at 3:53 AM
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Madonna released "Borderline" as the fifth & final single from her eponymous debut album 'Madonna' 42 years ago on February 15, 1984

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February 16, 2026 at 4:12 AM
sonyaoldssom.bsky.social
Yes. This is a perfect album.
albumism.com Albumism @albumism.com · 19h
Is The Strokes’ debut album ‘Is This It’ (2001) one of the greatest albums of all time?

Vote for it—and up to ten albums total—in our readers’ poll here: album.ink/GOATAlbumsPoll
February 17, 2026 at 10:36 AM
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sjjphd.bsky.social
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
February 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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slamastack.bsky.social
In hindsight bro was 100% right

Email was the start of the slippery slope to the "always available" workforce, which turned into 24/7 hustle culture, which has now become manic obsession with AI squeezing every ounce of productivity from a workforce increasingly seen as disposable pawns
angryblacklady.blacksky.app Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20h
I rewatched You've Got Mail yesterday and the way Greg Kinnear's character is railing against technology ruining the world but the technology was email.
February 16, 2026 at 2:34 PM
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I rewatched You've Got Mail yesterday and the way Greg Kinnear's character is railing against technology ruining the world but the technology was email.
February 16, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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angryblacklady.blacksky.app
I love everything about this
snurri.bsky.social Dax (David J.) Schwartz @snurri.bsky.social · 1d
Let me tell you a tale of how completely the normies have been mobilized. My 14 year-old niece has done School of Rock for the past 5 years; last summer she was part of their touring band, and the kids loved playing together so much that they decided to keep doing it. (1/?)
February 16, 2026 at 2:17 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
it’s breathtaking to see how this country is in decline by every possible metric
adamgolub.bsky.social Adam Golub @adamgolub.bsky.social · 1d
Devastated to learn that Univ of Texas at Austin is closing the American Studies dept. The years I spent there earning my PhD were formative, making me the teacher, thinker, and writer I am today. I've passed on what I learned at UT to thousands of students over the past 20 years. Just awful.
February 16, 2026 at 2:55 AM
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Legal opinions 10 years ago: we’re applying law to facts

Legal opinions now: we’re doing a song and dance number, we’re quoting 1984, we’re saving the town with this humble lemonade stand
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16h
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore the slavery exhibit that the National Park Service removed in Philadelphia

www.inquirer.com/news/philade...
National Park Service removing a slavery exhibit “As if the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s 1984 now existed, with its motto “Ignorance is Strength,” this Court is now asked to determine whether the federal government has the power it claims — to dissemble and disassemble historical truth when it domain over historical facts. It does not.
February 16, 2026 at 6:49 PM