An Introverted Blerd
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Reeling from Ananda Lewis' passing: a legendary broadcaster. Grateful I interviewed Ananda + the irreplaceable Free, Leslie Segar, and Scottie Beam for my BLACK GIRL SONGBOOK podcast in '21. Rest, Ananda. Rest 🙏🏽💔 open.spotify.com/episode/4lYW...
June 12, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Reeling from Ananda Lewis' passing: a legendary broadcaster. Grateful I interviewed Ananda + the irreplaceable Free, Leslie Segar, and Scottie Beam for my BLACK GIRL SONGBOOK podcast in '21. Rest, Ananda. Rest 🙏🏽💔 open.spotify.com/episode/4lYW...
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I read that children 6-12 are more likely to be killed in Gaza because they’re too big to be carried, and not as fast as children 12+, and I can’t stop thinking about it. We have children running for their lives on the regular so much so that there are patterns as to who survives.
May 23, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I read that children 6-12 are more likely to be killed in Gaza because they’re too big to be carried, and not as fast as children 12+, and I can’t stop thinking about it. We have children running for their lives on the regular so much so that there are patterns as to who survives.
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"The number of employed Black women dropped from 10.325 million in March to 10.219 million in April. Their unemployment rate jumped from 5.1% to 6.1%, the largest month-to-month increase among all racial and gender groups."
www.washingtoninformer.com/black-women-...
www.washingtoninformer.com/black-women-...
More Than 106,000 Black Women Lost Jobs Last Month
Black women experienced the largest job loss in April, with their unemployment rate rising to 6.1%. The overall Black unemployment rate also increased.
www.washingtoninformer.com
May 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
"The number of employed Black women dropped from 10.325 million in March to 10.219 million in April. Their unemployment rate jumped from 5.1% to 6.1%, the largest month-to-month increase among all racial and gender groups."
www.washingtoninformer.com/black-women-...
www.washingtoninformer.com/black-women-...
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Senator Alsobrooks: You’ve been unable to address specific questions about your agency. Can you name which office the Safe to Sleep program operates out of?
RFK Jr.: Guesses wrong 5 times
Alsobrooks: It is the Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD.
RFK Jr.: Guesses wrong 5 times
Alsobrooks: It is the Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD.
May 14, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Senator Alsobrooks: You’ve been unable to address specific questions about your agency. Can you name which office the Safe to Sleep program operates out of?
RFK Jr.: Guesses wrong 5 times
Alsobrooks: It is the Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD.
RFK Jr.: Guesses wrong 5 times
Alsobrooks: It is the Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD.
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I struggle with the reporting on ChatGPT in education because it often confirms society’s negative bias against young people—oh no, this generation is unsaveable!—when it’s possible to just educate people to be less credulous about it. which is why I wrote this: so teachers could print and assign it
ChatGPT Is Everywhere — Why Aren't We Talking About Its Environmental Costs?
One estimate found that a single ChatGPT search uses 10 times the energy of a normal Google search.
www.teenvogue.com
May 14, 2025 at 11:06 AM
I struggle with the reporting on ChatGPT in education because it often confirms society’s negative bias against young people—oh no, this generation is unsaveable!—when it’s possible to just educate people to be less credulous about it. which is why I wrote this: so teachers could print and assign it
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Of course I see this right before bed. As a Howard alum and a man I have a lot to say about this.
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At Black Colleges, a Stubborn Gender Enrollment Gap Keeps Growing (Gift Article)
Only 19 percent of students at Howard University are Black men, whose enrollment levels at four-year colleges have plummeted across the board.
www.nytimes.com
March 31, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Of course I see this right before bed. As a Howard alum and a man I have a lot to say about this.
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"Because I am not white & I am not a male, I am not going to get the blessings of the power structure in this country.”-Shirley Chisholm #WomensHistoryMonth
March 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
"Because I am not white & I am not a male, I am not going to get the blessings of the power structure in this country.”-Shirley Chisholm #WomensHistoryMonth
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Deaths reported in Gaza as Israeli military conducts ‘extensive strikes’ despite ceasefire
Deaths reported in Gaza as Israeli military conducts ‘extensive strikes’ despite ceasefire
Benjamin Netanyahu’s office blames Hamas’s refusal to release hostages for IDF strikes that are reported to have killed at least 30 people
Israel’s military said it was conducting “extensive strikes on terror targets” in Gaza early on Tuesday, with…
www.theguardian.com
March 18, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Deaths reported in Gaza as Israeli military conducts ‘extensive strikes’ despite ceasefire
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So apparently the AP Human Geography site is culling some of its "daily videos" for class use. A teacher tells me the videos on redlining and white flight are gone. In the screenshot below, you can see the Daily Videos start with no. 2 (no. 1 on this page was redlining, and it's gone now).
March 7, 2025 at 2:11 AM
So apparently the AP Human Geography site is culling some of its "daily videos" for class use. A teacher tells me the videos on redlining and white flight are gone. In the screenshot below, you can see the Daily Videos start with no. 2 (no. 1 on this page was redlining, and it's gone now).
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The vibraphonist, composer and jazz-funk pioneer helped inspire the neo-soul movement, and his best-known song was sampled over 100 times.
Roy Ayers, whose 'Everybody Loves The Sunshine' charmed generations, dies at 84
The vibraphonist, composer and jazz-funk pioneer helped inspire the neo-soul movement, and his best-known song was sampled over 100 times.
www.npr.org
March 6, 2025 at 1:36 AM
The vibraphonist, composer and jazz-funk pioneer helped inspire the neo-soul movement, and his best-known song was sampled over 100 times.
Damn...a lot legends are leaving this realm.
Iconic vibraphonist, composer and producer Roy Ayers has died at 84, his family announces
March 6, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Damn...a lot legends are leaving this realm.
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Angie Stone, singer and member of the iconic hip hop trio The Sequence, has died at 63
Singer-Songwriter Angie Stone Dead at 63
Angie Stone -- a singer and member of the iconic hip hop trio The Sequence -- has died ... TMZ has confirmed.
www.tmz.com
March 1, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Angie Stone, singer and member of the iconic hip hop trio The Sequence, has died at 63
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I am now hearing from multiple folks in the past two hours (including some who have personally been fired) that mass firings have now commenced within NOAA--including, yes, at the National Weather Service.
February 27, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I am now hearing from multiple folks in the past two hours (including some who have personally been fired) that mass firings have now commenced within NOAA--including, yes, at the National Weather Service.
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Seems like everyone has kinda memory-holed this one. thehill.com/homenews/new...
February 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Seems like everyone has kinda memory-holed this one. thehill.com/homenews/new...
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A British-Egyptian team has made one of the most significant Egyptian archeological finds in recent history: the tomb of pharaoh King Thutmose II, who ruled sometime between 2000 and 1001 BCE. This is the first tomb of a pharaoh unearthed since Tutankhamun’s in 1922.
Royal Tomb Of Egyptian King Thutmose II Unearthed
Finding the original tomb of the royal is one of the most significant developments in Egyptian archeology in recent history.
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February 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
A British-Egyptian team has made one of the most significant Egyptian archeological finds in recent history: the tomb of pharaoh King Thutmose II, who ruled sometime between 2000 and 1001 BCE. This is the first tomb of a pharaoh unearthed since Tutankhamun’s in 1922.
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Elon has tweeted over 10 times about the Rufo smear piece on a intelligence community ERG on intelink.
They're creating the manufactured consent to purge LGBTQ and especially trans employees from not just the intelligence communities but the entire federal government. They'll use ERGs to do so.
They're creating the manufactured consent to purge LGBTQ and especially trans employees from not just the intelligence communities but the entire federal government. They'll use ERGs to do so.
February 25, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Elon has tweeted over 10 times about the Rufo smear piece on a intelligence community ERG on intelink.
They're creating the manufactured consent to purge LGBTQ and especially trans employees from not just the intelligence communities but the entire federal government. They'll use ERGs to do so.
They're creating the manufactured consent to purge LGBTQ and especially trans employees from not just the intelligence communities but the entire federal government. They'll use ERGs to do so.
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Over on X, Chris Rufo is out with a series of leaked internal chats between trans intelligence analysts at NSA, where they talked about things like coming out, bottom surgery, and their sex lives. So yeah, employees should be afraid of things like that even if they’re not fired.
NEWS: In USDA, multiple people have been asked to report the names of LGBTQ employee resource group leaders to higher-ranking officials, according to interviews with workers and a document reviewed by Mother Jones.
+ similar in the Department of the Interior
+ similar in the Department of the Interior
LGBTQ federal workers say they're terrified they're about to be fired for their gender identity, sexual orientation, or past efforts to support other queer and trans employees—in other words, a second Lavender Scare.
Honored to have their trust with this story: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Honored to have their trust with this story: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
February 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Over on X, Chris Rufo is out with a series of leaked internal chats between trans intelligence analysts at NSA, where they talked about things like coming out, bottom surgery, and their sex lives. So yeah, employees should be afraid of things like that even if they’re not fired.
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What Roberta Flack offered us musically is in a league of its own. Rest in peace to a true legend.
Roberta Flack, soul and R&B icon behind Killing Me Softly, dies aged 88
Roberta Flack, soul and R&B icon behind Killing Me Softly, dies aged 88
Much-loved singer known for Killing Me Softly With His Song, The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face and duets with Donny Hathaway and Peabo Bryson, had suffered a stroke in 2016
Roberta Flack, the US singer behind a string of hits including Killing Me…
www.theguardian.com
February 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
What Roberta Flack offered us musically is in a league of its own. Rest in peace to a true legend.
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February 20, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Cutting Dolly Parton’s program that helps kids learn how to read <<<<<<<
www.14news.com/2025/02/19/t...
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February 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Cutting Dolly Parton’s program that helps kids learn how to read <<<<<<<
www.14news.com/2025/02/19/t...
www.14news.com/2025/02/19/t...
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Sudan is experiencing one of the worst humanitarian and hunger crises of our time and yet the Gezira irrigation scheme (2 mill feddans of fertile land between the Niles) could easily feed the entire country and region. Farmer's need the security and support to farm. A 🧵
February 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Sudan is experiencing one of the worst humanitarian and hunger crises of our time and yet the Gezira irrigation scheme (2 mill feddans of fertile land between the Niles) could easily feed the entire country and region. Farmer's need the security and support to farm. A 🧵
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‼️ The National Park Service has REMOVED mentions of transgender people being involved with Stonewall. Not only did the remove the world "Transgender" but changed "LGBTQ+" to "LGBQ+".
The federal government is attempting to erase us and take away our history.
This pride, we riot.
The federal government is attempting to erase us and take away our history.
This pride, we riot.
February 13, 2025 at 9:01 PM
‼️ The National Park Service has REMOVED mentions of transgender people being involved with Stonewall. Not only did the remove the world "Transgender" but changed "LGBTQ+" to "LGBQ+".
The federal government is attempting to erase us and take away our history.
This pride, we riot.
The federal government is attempting to erase us and take away our history.
This pride, we riot.
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Linda McMahon, Trump’s nominee for education secretary, said she’s not “quite certain” whether African American studies would be allowed under Trump’s executive order
Here’s What Linda McMahon, Nominee for Education Secretary, Had to Say About Higher Ed
She discussed dismantling the Education Department, investigating colleges over antisemitism and DEI, and increasing access to noncollege opportunities.
www.chronicle.com
February 13, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Linda McMahon, Trump’s nominee for education secretary, said she’s not “quite certain” whether African American studies would be allowed under Trump’s executive order