Alicia Michele Benjamin
@ramalicia.bsky.social
Come out & see my short documentary, “Dreams Float Around Us” to be screened Friday, June 6, as part of Block 5: Shades of Black Women – 7 short films will run from 3:45–5:45 p.m.
Visit here to get your tickets to all the festival films!
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Visit here to get your tickets to all the festival films!
charlotteblackfilmfestival.ticketspice.com/15th-annual-...
June 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Come out & see my short documentary, “Dreams Float Around Us” to be screened Friday, June 6, as part of Block 5: Shades of Black Women – 7 short films will run from 3:45–5:45 p.m.
Visit here to get your tickets to all the festival films!
charlotteblackfilmfestival.ticketspice.com/15th-annual-...
Visit here to get your tickets to all the festival films!
charlotteblackfilmfestival.ticketspice.com/15th-annual-...
Read MY ARTICLE below--printed a few days BEFORE Roberta Flack transitioned. I've been reflecting on her music & what it's meant to my life. My mom made both Nina Simone & Roberta Flack’s music a part of my childhood, and I'm so much more vibrant for it.
Thank you mama!
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Thank you mama!
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Pride Magazine • 2025 March/April "Women's"Issue
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February 26, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Read MY ARTICLE below--printed a few days BEFORE Roberta Flack transitioned. I've been reflecting on her music & what it's meant to my life. My mom made both Nina Simone & Roberta Flack’s music a part of my childhood, and I'm so much more vibrant for it.
Thank you mama!
issuu.com/watchdog-ent...
Thank you mama!
issuu.com/watchdog-ent...
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Where Is the Love (Remastered Version)
YouTube video by Roberta Flack - Topic
youtu.be
February 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Kiki in the morning
February 21, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Kiki in the morning
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Claiming that DOGE will improve America’s debt crisis is a convenient way to frame the project as a service to the American people, @lorakelley.bsky.social writes in The Atlantic Daily. But DOGE’s current efforts aren‘t likely to make a dent in the deficit.
DOGE’s Fuzzy Math
The department’s current efforts—and Musk’s obsession with fraud—are not likely to make a dent in the country’s deficit.
www.theatlantic.com
February 18, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Claiming that DOGE will improve America’s debt crisis is a convenient way to frame the project as a service to the American people, @lorakelley.bsky.social writes in The Atlantic Daily. But DOGE’s current efforts aren‘t likely to make a dent in the deficit.
Malcolm Nance literally starts shouting here. You’ve GOT to listen to this.
“Malcolm Nance Declares a National Security Emergency” youtu.be/FrHFFt5VZvI?...
“Malcolm Nance Declares a National Security Emergency” youtu.be/FrHFFt5VZvI?...
Malcolm Nance Declares a National Security Emergency
YouTube video by Malcolm Nance
youtu.be
February 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Malcolm Nance literally starts shouting here. You’ve GOT to listen to this.
“Malcolm Nance Declares a National Security Emergency” youtu.be/FrHFFt5VZvI?...
“Malcolm Nance Declares a National Security Emergency” youtu.be/FrHFFt5VZvI?...
Black-owned restaurants and bars in the Charlotte area.
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😋🥘🍛🫕🍽️🍲
February 14, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Black-owned restaurants and bars in the Charlotte area.
😋🥘🍛🫕🍽️🍲
😋🥘🍛🫕🍽️🍲
Jalen Hurts writes love letter to us, Black Women!
❤️ Jalen Hurts 💜🦅
❤️ Jalen Hurts 💜🦅
February 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Jalen Hurts writes love letter to us, Black Women!
❤️ Jalen Hurts 💜🦅
❤️ Jalen Hurts 💜🦅
Happy Valentines 💘 Day!! Enjoy this lil bit of Marvin Gaye. ❤️💜
February 13, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Happy Valentines 💘 Day!! Enjoy this lil bit of Marvin Gaye. ❤️💜
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Elon Musk is waging a war on kids. Shutting down the Department of Education also means NO free school lunches, NO support for struggling families, and NO future for millions of children. This is what happens when billionaires have too much power. THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE!
February 8, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Elon Musk is waging a war on kids. Shutting down the Department of Education also means NO free school lunches, NO support for struggling families, and NO future for millions of children. This is what happens when billionaires have too much power. THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE!
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is it woke to want to end cancer?
NEW: The N.I.H. will cut about $4 Billion from federal research grants that support cancer, virus and heart disease research.
#Project2025 called for the cuts to end subsidies to "leftist" university agendas.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...
#Project2025 called for the cuts to end subsidies to "leftist" university agendas.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...
Deep Cuts to Medical Research Funds Could Hobble University Budgets
Grants from the National Institutes of Health come with additional money for overhead. Proposed funding cuts would leave colleges with large budget gaps.
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2025 at 3:15 AM
is it woke to want to end cancer?
I like black coffee with no sugar , no crème, and tea without sweetener, but this little bit of honey in the Rooibos tea 🫖 I’m drinking is raising it to another level.
February 8, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I like black coffee with no sugar , no crème, and tea without sweetener, but this little bit of honey in the Rooibos tea 🫖 I’m drinking is raising it to another level.
Walmart brand broccoli called “deadly”
February 6, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Walmart brand broccoli called “deadly”
My people… hold on to Love
February 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
My people… hold on to Love
Gloria Naylor!
February 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Gloria Naylor!
My people, hold on to Love
February 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
My people, hold on to Love
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Black history is every month all the time, of course, but I’ll play this game. Almost a decade ago, Dan Kois and I put together the Black Film Canon, then we updated it in 2023, and it’s a great (but def not exhaustive!) primer for black film history:
slate.com/culture/2023...
slate.com/culture/2023...
The 75 Greatest Films by Black Directors
As chosen by critics and filmmakers—and including four movies from 2022.
slate.com
February 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Black history is every month all the time, of course, but I’ll play this game. Almost a decade ago, Dan Kois and I put together the Black Film Canon, then we updated it in 2023, and it’s a great (but def not exhaustive!) primer for black film history:
slate.com/culture/2023...
slate.com/culture/2023...
Reposted by Alicia Michele Benjamin
My thoughts exactly
February 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
My thoughts exactly
Malcolm Nance says we are in danger and I believe it. youtu.be/VaknrkuYBjE?...
Malcolm Nance - LISTEN UP! WE ARE IN DANGER!!!
YouTube video by Malcolm Nance
youtu.be
February 5, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Malcolm Nance says we are in danger and I believe it. youtu.be/VaknrkuYBjE?...
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rahm emmanuel's last act in politics was leaving the chicago mayor's office in disgrace and axelrod is almost YEARS removed from a successful campaign. who cares what they think
Very serious Democratic strategists advise the party to allow Trump to illegally dismantle USAID -- a decision that will result in the unnecessary deaths of people around the world.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
February 5, 2025 at 12:12 AM
rahm emmanuel's last act in politics was leaving the chicago mayor's office in disgrace and axelrod is almost YEARS removed from a successful campaign. who cares what they think
Journalists on MSNBC, CNN, PBS, ABC, etc. are useless. They act as if we’re not all in trouble here and looking at forthcoming broad scale catastrophe. We’ll have to rely on Independent media for any kind of pushback, truth-telling or concern for the people.
February 5, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Journalists on MSNBC, CNN, PBS, ABC, etc. are useless. They act as if we’re not all in trouble here and looking at forthcoming broad scale catastrophe. We’ll have to rely on Independent media for any kind of pushback, truth-telling or concern for the people.
I’m waiting for somebody like Meryl Streep or Daniel Day Lewis to come on the Criterion Closet series & select a film like The Mack or She’s Gotta Have It. THEN I’d be impressed. Although I have seen actors or directors choose some surprising picks like Ghost Dog and To Sleep with Anger
February 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I’m waiting for somebody like Meryl Streep or Daniel Day Lewis to come on the Criterion Closet series & select a film like The Mack or She’s Gotta Have It. THEN I’d be impressed. Although I have seen actors or directors choose some surprising picks like Ghost Dog and To Sleep with Anger
Don’t think I’ll be taking any flights anytime soon. 😳😬
February 3, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Don’t think I’ll be taking any flights anytime soon. 😳😬
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I rebuke and condemn the monstrous and grotesque racism expressed by Trump & others in their ignorant and crass assignation of blame for this tragedy, which is an affront to Kiah Huggins’ life’s work.
Signing off for the night.
Signing off for the night.
Kiah was set to join our faculty at Howard Law School in the Fall. She was a dedicated, brilliant civil rights lawyer poised to make a powerful difference in our world.
Our hearts are broken & we pray for her family & friends.
www.kwch.com/2025/01/30/c...
Our hearts are broken & we pray for her family & friends.
www.kwch.com/2025/01/30/c...
Civil rights attorney, former Miss Kansas contestant killed in plane crash near DC airport
As families and communities identify victims in Wednesday night’s plane crash near Washington, D.C., we’re learning that a well-known civil rights attorney and former Miss Kansas contestant is among t...
www.kwch.com
January 31, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I rebuke and condemn the monstrous and grotesque racism expressed by Trump & others in their ignorant and crass assignation of blame for this tragedy, which is an affront to Kiah Huggins’ life’s work.
Signing off for the night.
Signing off for the night.