Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn
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Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn
@janicerhoshalle.bsky.social
In the throes of my next book. Moonlighting in nature.
Because the Trump Administration doesn't want you to see it, I'm sharing it: Peter (formerly identified as "Gordon") / By Mathew Brady Studio / Copy after: William D. McPherson, Copy after: Mr. Oliver, 1863
Albumen silver print

#thisisamerica
September 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
September 12, 2025 at 3:28 AM
To all professionals (and retirees) in the journalism, film, television, theatre, entertainment, and arts world, join the challenge to post a photo of yourself in your job. Just a picture, no description. The goal is to flood social media with our profession. Copy the text. Post a pic on YOUR page.
July 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
"There is part of me that, I will be able to leave this Earth knowing, and people knowing, that I was a good person." -Malcolm Jamal Warner
July 22, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Pause. Rest. Be.: An essential read for unprecedented change.

Thanks to my friends at Black Being L.A. for introducing this to my reading list and meditation practice.
July 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
July 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Preparing for Sunday's "Day of the Ancestors: Festival of Masks" this Sunday in Leimert Park celebrating the lives of, among others, SoCal poet, writer, and culture worker Peter J. Harris. I am honored to speak on behalf of my friend and comrade-in-arts.

Details in flyer.

Produced by LA Commons.
June 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Talking reproductive heslth, reproductive justice and bodily autonomy today with the California Black Women's Health Project.

I never dreamed this would be my lane. But I know this is exactly where I'm supposed to be.
June 25, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Took home first and third place honors at the Southern California Journalism Awards last night for my piece, "Reclaiming Catherine...and all Black wombs, because they matter."

I dedicate this win to my Grandmama Catherine and to Adriana Smith. They deserved better.

#lapressclub
June 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Dog lover. Nature enthusiast. Octavia E. Butler was just like us @stoneviewnc.

Today, our BGs Book Club discusses "The Parable of the Sower," Butler's seminal work, on her birthday... and our book club's second anniversary!

It's a celebration all around!
June 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
"Congress, where are you?"

#nowarwithiran
June 22, 2025 at 4:36 AM
"...at the heart of that day in Galveston and in the entirety of American life: there is a vast chasm between the concept of freedom inscribed on paper and the reality of freedom in our lives." -Jelani Cobb, "Juneteenth and the Meaning of Freedom"

🎨 Harmonia Rosales “Migration of the Gods”
June 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Absolutely! #Juneteenth
June 19, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Sign o' the times.

#nokings
June 15, 2025 at 5:22 AM
"As Black women, we have all kinds of factors we’re not even aware of that contribute to cancer impinging upon us. Increase your knowledge about how to prevent getting here in the first place. Prevention is the real cure." -Ananda Lewis to Essence Magazine, January 2025. #RIP
June 12, 2025 at 6:53 AM
“Everybody is a star/ Who would rain and chase the dust away/ Everybody wants to shine/ Who’ll come out on a cloudy day… When the system tries to bring you down/ You don’t need darkness to do what you think is right.” -Sly Stone (1943-2025)
June 10, 2025 at 3:08 AM
The reason we say Black history is American history is...because it is. As we honor those who died in service of our country know that the commemoration of #MemorialDay started with Black folks.

Read all about it: time.com/5836444/blac...
May 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
A Message from the Earth: You are enough.

And so am I.
May 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
🎶Another one bites the dust
🎶Another one bites the dust
🎶And another one gone, and another one gone
🎶Another one bites the dust (yeah)...
May 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
And just like that...
May 17, 2025 at 4:40 AM
The L.A. Press Club has nominated my essay on the impact of the Black maternal mortality/morbity crisis in the U.S. through the lens of my maternal grandmother's postpartum death in 1950 in two categories for a SoCal Journalism Award. I'm over the moon!

Read it at...
nursing.uci.edu/news-events/...
May 16, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Now. And then. She's always been my favorite person.

#MothersDay
May 11, 2025 at 3:53 PM
"This is a surprise"... said no Black American.

#popeleo
May 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
New grave markers for pioneering women of Monrovia, CA unveiled in ceremonies today!

Read all about these trailblazing Black women: pasadenanow.com/main/long-un...

#wearetheseeds
May 4, 2025 at 2:03 AM
New grave markers for pioneering women of Monrovia, CA unveiled in ceremonies today!

Read all about these trailblazing Black women: pasadenanow.com/main/long-un...

#wearetheseeds
May 4, 2025 at 2:02 AM