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Maintainin’ In The Madness @maintainin.bsky.social · Mar 1
My ♥️ beats notes 🎼 (scales), drums🪘, chords, keys 🎹 , strings🪕🎸, horns 🎺 🎷, and vocal 🗣️sound… 🎼…music.
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I appreciated the episode! 🤗Many years ago I volunteered to help transcribe documents in the archive for the freedman’s bureau. It was a challenging experience. But I felt a strong sense of duty to offer my small contribution to the ancestors.
civicspod.bsky.social Civics & Coffee: A History Podcast @civicspod.bsky.social · 4d
Very close and part of the episode 👏🏻
November 12, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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GOOD MORNING BLACKSKY!!! QUEEN LATIFAH IS ON RE:LIVING SINGLE!!
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All Hail the Queen featuring Queen Latifah & Chip Hurd | ReLiving Single Podcast
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November 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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"Not all who teach us about love are human" by Paschal Kenechukwu Okafor (Nigerian) - Oil on canvas / 2024 - TAAG Gallery (New York) #WomenInArt #PaschalKenechukwuOkafor #Okafor #NigerianArt #ContemporaryAfricanArt #BlackArt #CatLovers #art #artText #artwork #arte #BlueskyArt #NigerianArtist #CatArt
Nigerian artist Paschal Kenechukwu Okafor’s title for this oil painting directs us to see these animals not as props but as co-equal subjects that guides in loyalty, patience, nonverbal care, and the constancy of love that precedes and outlasts romance. A young Black woman with warm brown skin sits turned slightly to her right, meeting us with a steady, reflective gaze. Her features are delicately modeled, but with bright highlights along her cheekbones, brow, and nose catching directional light. An intricate, sculptural hairstyle arcs above her head like looping black filigree, echoing both crown and halo. She wears a deep blue-black dress with voluminous sleeves and a crisp white ruff framing her neck and hands. Its bright folds sharpening the contrast against a muted earth-brown background. Two sleek black cats press into her arms: one cradled securely across her bosom, the other perched higher, its alert eyes parallel to hers. Their bodies form a dark triangle of weight and warmth against her torso, emphasizing touch, fur, and closeness. The surface is rich but controlled, with visible brushwork that softens edges while keeping every gaze intensely present. The young woman, likely a composite rather than a named individual, stands in for Black women whose emotional labor and tenderness are too often assumed yet rarely monumentalized. Her courtly collar and composed pose quote European portrait traditions, but here nobility is grounded in everyday intimacy by the trust of two black cats (creatures historically stigmatized, now calmly adored). Born in 1996 in Nigeria and working through galleries such as TAAG, Okafor is part of a rising generation of West African painters who reclaim representation on their own terms by fusing classical technique, spiritual subtext, and contemporary Black life to insist that softness, guardianship, and interspecies kinship are worthy of grand, iconic paint.
November 6, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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“Phillis” by Elizabeth Colomba (French) - Oil on canvas / 2010 - Princeton University Art Museum (New Jersey) #WomenInArt #art #artText #artwork #Princeton #arte #PhillisWheatley #ElizabethColomba #Colomba #BlackArt #ContemporaryArt #ArtHistory #CatArt #ArtBsky #WomensArt #WomenArtists #WomanArtist
A Black woman with dark coffee skin sits on the edge of a narrow iron bed in a modest room, her long red dress pooling in precise folds that catch the muted light. Her features are calm and intent, framed by a brown headwrap. She looks slightly away, thoughtful rather than posed. Around her rest books, loose pages, and writing tools that signal active authorship. Two cats animate the space: a black-and-white one settled closely in her lap and a tabby cat engaged with a fallen quill at the bedside so their small bodies echo her focus and energy. Bare walls, a simple window, and the unadorned bed frame underscore the contrast between the richness of her intellect and the spareness of her surroundings, keeping our attention on her presence, her hands, and the materials of her work. Elizabeth Colomba, a French painter born in Épinay-sur-Seine to parents from Martinique, recasts the first published African American woman poet, Phillis Wheatley, as an autonomous intellectual rather than an enslaved curiosity filtered through white approval. Rather than recreating her Boston household literally, the artist composes an allegorical interior where red cloth, stacked books, and scattered pages affirm Wheatley’s authority over language and learning despite enslavement, surveillance, and precarious freedom. The two cats, playful yet watchful, have been read as stand-ins for her short-lived children and as witnesses to a life spent negotiating tenderness, faith, and racial violence; their engagement with the quill folds biography into symbol. Trained in the French academic tradition and drawing on Old Master composition, Colomba reclaims the pictorial codes that once excluded Black women, inserting Wheatley at the center of art history as a rigorous intellectual, not a decorative exception.
November 7, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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“Oh, To Be Loved” by Shona McAndrew (French) - Acrylic on canvas / 2023 - Green Family Art Foundation (Dallas, Texas) #WomenInArt #art #artText #artwork #WomanArtist #ShonaMcAndrew #McAndrew #BodyPositivity #arte #ContemporaryArt #BlueskyArt #WomenArtists #DogArt #WomensArt #GreenFamilyArtFoundation
A plus-size woman leans over the edge of a pink bathtub, her dark hair twisted into a loose topknot, bare arms folded as she gazes down with soft concentration. One finger touches the water’s surface, sending out a crisp ring of ripples that anchors the scene. Beside her, a gray-and-white dog perches on the tub’s rim, paws resting over a striped towel, watchful and calm. Behind them, a grid of warm orange tiles hums with gentle light. Below, the bathwater becomes a second painting: her reflected body and the dog’s form stretch across mauve and lavender tiles, veiled by foam and translucent swirls, blurring where skin, water, and light meet into a quiet portrait of rest, intimacy, and companionship. In “Oh, To Be Loved,” artist Shona McAndrew (born in Paris and based in the United States) turns the bathroom, often a site of scrutiny, into a sanctuary for radical gentleness. Working from her own body and relationships, she paints fat, tender, queer-adjacent domestic life at heroic scale, insisting that care and desire belong to bodies long excluded from art history’s ideals. The woman’s relaxed posture, the everyday setting, and the dog’s unwavering presence insist that love is found in ordinary rituals and in steam, tile, towels, and the slow tracing of a fingertip across water. Created for her 2023 solo exhibition “Rose-Tinted Glasses” at CHART in New York, the painting forms part of a self-reflective series in which McAndrew recasts classical motifs of the nude and the muse through her own image, her partner, and her dog. Later shown in “Some Dogs Go to Dallas” at the Green Family Art Foundation, it resonates within a wider context of portraits where animals witness and affirm human vulnerability like an ode to being seen, held, and loved without condition.
November 10, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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Thank you to all who have served 🫡
November 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
maintainin.bsky.social
The reconstruction era was pivotal in a lot of ways & also provides great context to the underlying theme that is at hand currently in this nation😞
civicspod.bsky.social Civics & Coffee: A History Podcast @civicspod.bsky.social · 4d
This week, I reflect on the legacy of Reconstruction — an era that represented America’s second founding and a crossroads for democracy.

As the show moves from Reconstruction into the Gilded Age, I look at what was gained, what was lost, and what it all means for the nation’s next chapter.
November 8, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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🎶House music all night long🎶 💃🏽🕺🏾
albumism.com Albumism @albumism.com · 4d
Jungle Brothers released their debut album ‘Straight Out the Jungle’ 37 years ago on November 8, 1988 | Listen to the album + revisit our tribute here: album.ink/JBsSOTJ
November 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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I can learn to live without a lot of things.
However, music is not one of them.
November 7, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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if we’re gonna be honest, this had the 80’s in a chokehold 🔥🔥🔥🔥

cd 101.9 would’ve played this on repeat if they could

kenny g - songbird
November 6, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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😲 He looks like him… but will he be able to move & sound like him? I guess we’ll have to wait & see..
Michael (2026) Official Teaser - Jaafar Jackson
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November 7, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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"Saving All My Love For You"

#NationalSaxophoneDay 🎷
November 6, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Okay, I lied, this is another right answer:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=WREJ...
November 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Submission 1
November 6, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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November 6, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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In the words of 2 forlorn lovers … “It don’t mean nothing” because “love appears at the worst & even the best of times”
😩🤣😂
lizzslockeroom.bsky.social Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 6d
RELEASED 35 YEARS AGO
"Love Makes Things Happen" by Pebbles & Babyface (1990)

🗣Well you could be a married man, with two kids and a good woman...

Scandalous...... 😬
November 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Margaret Avery acted her face off in this scene 🎬 🔥 &
singer Tata Vega blew the hinges off the ⛪️ doors & the pearly gates with her vocal performance! 🔥 👏🏾👏🏾
Soul snatching!
November 6, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Oh Sade & that 🎷 go together real bad! 😍
November 6, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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November 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Def started reading this and immediately thought floetry and the beginning lolol

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Getting Late
YouTube video by Floetry - Topic
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November 6, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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🎶Wanting… needing…waiting… for you… to justify my love🎶 🫣🫢
albumism.com Albumism @albumism.com · 7d
Madonna released "Justify My Love" as the lead single from 'The Immaculate Collection' 35 years ago on November 6, 1990 | Watch the classic video here: album.ink/MadonnaTIC
November 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Masterpiece 😔
albumism.com Albumism @albumism.com · 7d
Good, Great or Masterpiece? | Listen to the album + explore our tribute here: album.ink/MNBitter
November 6, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Skyy, Can You Feel Me

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November 6, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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I hope so! Tbh I don't know a lot of her music, but really like a few like this one... which is not deep at all 😅🤭

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Jhené Aiko - P*$$Y Fairy (OTW)
YouTube video by JheneAikoVEVO
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November 6, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Still Ray 😍
Be Here 🔥
It never rains in southern California 😍😍
albumism.com Albumism @albumism.com · 12d
Think fast...what three songs do you think of first when you think about Raphael Saadiq?

album.ink/RaphaelSaadiq
November 6, 2025 at 2:23 AM