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Arionne (Are-REE-ahn) Nettles
@arionne.bsky.social
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Real housewife of journalism: “I might teach journalism but I’M ALWAYS the feature” | Author of WE ARE THE CULTURE | FAMU Prof+Alum | Chicagoan til Chicago ends
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jenee.bsky.social
I’m no political analyst but I hope someone is exploring the idea that it’s not just politicians who can be bad and want bad things - plenty of of voters, despite what they may say they care about, are simply happy to suffer if it means the people they want hurt are being hurt a little worse
July 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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jenee.bsky.social
I will never recover from the years I spent working in media amid a totally deranged obsession with empathy for Trump voters who wanted nothing but to make other people suffer
July 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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allenlinton2.bsky.social
I've been beaming about @thetriibe.com
and @southsideweekly.bsky.social
collaborating to cover the heck out Chicago's current debate about youth curfews and where/how young people view the restrictions on how they move in the city. It's been great.

Support local journalism!
May 25, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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capitalb.bsky.social
Residents of Clarksdale, Mississippi, the town where the film Sinners is based, will get to watch it alongside its director, Ryan Coogler, and film composer Luwdig Göransson on May 29.

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Jack O'Connell (from left), Omar Benson Miller, Wunmi Mosaku, Ryan Coogler, Michael B. Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld, Jayne Lawson, Miles Caton, Li Jun Li and Delroy Lindo, attend the "Sinners" European Premiere in London in April. (Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images for Warner Bros. Pictures)
May 25, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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joannemerriam.bsky.social
5/15 @arionne.bsky.social @chireviewpress.bsky.social @charlieangus104.bsky.social @houseofanansi.bsky.social @deepvellum.bsky.social @uoftpress.bsky.social (Alt-text for details.) #SmallPress #books #BookSky #DSPBposts
Book cover for We Are the Culture: Black Chicago's Influence on Everything by Arionne Nettles (Chicago Review Press/Lawrence Hill Books), with a line drawing of a black person's silhouette over a Chicago skyline. https://www.chicagoreviewpress.com/we-are-the-culture-products-9781641608305.php?page_id=21 Book cover for Dangerous Memory: Coming of Age in the Decade of Greed by Charlie Angus (House of Anansi), depicting a black silhouette of anti-nuke protesters against a turquoise background. A bold book of rage, hope, and challenge exposing how the political decisions of the 1980s continue to haunt us today. https://houseofanansi.com/products/dangerous-memory Book cover for Small Business and the City: The Transformative Potential of Small Scale Entrepreneurship by Rafael Gomez, Andre Isakov and Matthew Semansky (University of Toronto Press ), with rows of map element icons like a ferry, a city hall, a bridge, a shop labeled flowers, a shop labeled furniture, a bed & breakfast, a pharmacy, and so on, arranged to look like a city skyline. https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781442612099 In Small Business and the City, Rafael Gomez, Andre Isakov, and Matt Semansky highlight the power of small-scale entrepreneurship to transform local neighbourhoods and the cities they inhabit. Studying the factors which enable small businesses to survive and thrive, they highlight the success of a Canadian concept which has spread worldwide: the Business Improvement Area (BIA). BIAs allow small-scale entrepreneurs to pool their resources with like-minded businesses, becoming sources of urban rejuvenation, magnets for human talent, and incubators for local innovation in cities around the globe. Small Business and the City also analyses the policies necessary to support this urban vitality, describing how cities can encourage and support locally owned independent businesses. An inspiring account of the dynamism of urban life, Small Business and the City introduces a new “main street agenda” for the twenty-first century city. Book cover for Uncle Rabbit and the Wax Doll by Silvestre Pantaleón Esteva, trans. Jonathan D. Amith (Deep Vellum), showing a rabbit on land staring at a crocodile in a lake surrounded by farmed land on which two figures are walking with a cat. Over everything is a large sun with a smiling face. The classic tale of the trickster Brer Rabbit in a one-of-a-kind trilingual edition (Nahuatl, Spanish, and English). https://store.deepvellum.org/products/uncle-rabbit-and-the-wax-doll
March 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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etoddbreland.bsky.social
I am forever honored that Karen Lewis entrusted me to co-author her memoir--I Didn’t Come Here to Lie: My Life and Education @haymarketbooks.org Karen was a powerful labor leader, formidable fighter & staunch defender of students, teachers & public education 1/ www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2444-i...
Alt text Cover of "I Didn't Come Here to Lie: My Life and Education," by Karen Lewis & Elizabeth Todd-Breland; Foreword by Angela Y. Davis, Afterword by Stacy Davis Gates. Image on cover of of Karen Lewis with her hands raised wearing a red CTU shirt. Title in Bold Black writing above image--author info. below image Alt text Back cover of Karen Lewis memoir, I Didn't Come Here to Lie, with blurbs by Eve L. Ewing, Bettina L. Love, Barbara Ransby, ad Jesse Hagopian
March 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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joannemerriam.bsky.social
Daily #SmallPress #book: We Are the Culture: Black Chicago's Influence on Everything by Arionne Nettles (Chicago Review Press/Lawrence Hill Books).
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💙📚 #BookSky #BlackSky #BlackHistoryMonth @arionne.bsky.social @chireviewpress.bsky.social
Book cover for We Are the Culture: Black Chicago's Influence on Everything by Arionne Nettles (Chicago Review Press/Lawrence Hill Books), with a line drawing of a black person's silhouette over a Chicago skyline. https://www.chicagoreviewpress.com/we-are-the-culture-products-9781641608305.php?page_id=21
February 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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lowerbackpainprod.bsky.social
"Hello Mr Cheese-It, there's someone I'd like you to meet... my tummy, hahaha!"

- my 6yo daughter, to the condemned
January 2, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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alexaesperanzaa.bsky.social
Good Morning my bookish loves 🥰 I have another thread for you! These recs are all books about MUSIC and I hope you like them as much as I did! 📚💙 #MusicSky

(Btw you can drop a 📌 in thr comments to bookmark)

Ok let’s get started
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December 22, 2024 at 2:17 PM
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She said
January 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
arionne.bsky.social
“Now come get everything you came for.” 🖤
January 1, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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morganelisej.thetriibe.com
We lost so many Black icons this year thetriibe.com/2024/12/cele...
Celebrities we lost in 2024 • The TRiiBE
Honoring the lives and legacies of some of our cultural stars.
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December 31, 2024 at 2:57 PM
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themultiplemom.bsky.social
The last quarter of 2024 ran out of here like it had somewhere to be.
December 31, 2024 at 3:06 PM
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kimkelly.bsky.social
The new generation of young, diverse, fired-up worker-organizers around the country are embracing one of the oldest tactics in the pro-union handbook: salting.

My latest for @teenvogue.bsky.social: www.teenvogue.com/story/what-i...
How Undercover Organizers Are Energizing the Labor Movement
Let’s talk about “salting.”
www.teenvogue.com
December 30, 2024 at 7:29 PM
arionne.bsky.social
It’s meeee.
1ntrusivethott.bsky.social 1ntrusive +ho++ 🤍 @1ntrusivethott.bsky.social · Dec 30
shout out to the wet seal and charlotte russe baddies of yesteryear
December 30, 2024 at 9:10 PM
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daniellamazzio.bsky.social
In fact, almost immediately after publishing, Cinema Chatham suddenly closed on the far south side. I discussed the loss of another theater on @wbez.org alongside @arionne.bsky.social.

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With Cinema Chatham shut down, only two movie theaters remain on the South Side
Even before Cinema Chatham unexpectedly closed last week, it was hard to find a movie theater on the South Side.
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December 30, 2024 at 7:41 PM
arionne.bsky.social
#BlackSky #BlackCulture
arionne.bsky.social Arionne (Are-REE-ahn) Nettles @arionne.bsky.social · Dec 30
Officially just another journalist with a Substack. 😂🖤 Talking about all things Black culture here: wearetheculture.substack.com/p/black-in-2025
December 30, 2024 at 9:09 PM
arionne.bsky.social
Officially just another journalist with a Substack. 😂🖤 Talking about all things Black culture here: wearetheculture.substack.com/p/black-in-2025
December 30, 2024 at 9:09 PM
arionne.bsky.social
Hi 2025. 👋🏾 If you’re a journalist, a journalist-to-be, or just someone who wants to be smarter about what you read, this book can help. Available for pre-order wherever books are sold.
December 11, 2024 at 4:54 AM
arionne.bsky.social
“We Are the Culture: Black Chicago’s Influence on Everything” is a finalist for best new nonfiction book in the Chicago Reader’s Best of Chicago 2024! 🙏🏾 Please vote for it here: bestof.chicagoreader.com/arts-and-cul...
December 3, 2024 at 4:09 AM
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jordanstalker.bsky.social
Loving a @arionne.bsky.social We Are the Culture. Esp. the personal connections to Chicago’s music culture.
December 2, 2024 at 5:40 PM
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November 28, 2024 at 7:43 PM
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simplydeep.bsky.social
“I was returning serve.” Yes Karen! 🤣🤣🤣 #RHOP
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November 18, 2024 at 1:43 AM