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Twine was an African American photographer in St. Augustine, FL. His large format glass negatives were discovered yrs later. They are featured at the Lincolnville Museum and Cultural Center in St. Augustine, which covers 500 yrs of Black history in the area: www.visitstaugustine.com/history/pers...

I work at Flickr Commons and a small subset of Harper's photographs are available online for free with no copyright restrictions here. www.flickr.com/photos/flori... Harper's Wikipedia page with links to more of his images of Black Floridians. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvan_S...

The State Library & Archives of Florida calls this image Seated Girl & Boy Holding Hat. It’s among many beautiful portraits of Black Floridians made by photographer Alvan Harper between 1884 & 1910 whose names were not preserved.

DISTURBING report from Dan Haar of Hearst. ICE/DHS had videographers deceptively wear "MEDIA" markings at an arrest. It's "part of a long tradition of authoritarian governments...creating confusion with what is independent media and what is government propaganda." www.instagram.com/reels/Dav_je...

here is what i think: we're not consumers or spectators, we are participants with agency. you should not hope that democrats will do anything. you must work to force them to do the right thing. the odds are long, but we are far from the first americans to face long odds. we will win.

is it possible for a whole album to be Black peoples Sweet Caroline? yeah i just caught up on the BET Lauryn Hill tribute

Mamdani hosted yesterday’s World’s Cup Morning Pitch and took that time to talk about La Tri Enner Valencia and the history of Afro Ecuadorians from La Chota.

Tenants in about 1M rent-stabilized apartments will not see their rents increase for the next two years after a NYC panel approved a first-of-its-kind freeze, fulfilling a key campaign pledge from Mayor Zohran Mamdani

They got billions of dollars for everything BUT feeding, housing, and insuring people.... It is morally bankrupt.

We could all get off Twitter, it’d be the bare minimum, but we haven’t.

4,903 Whistles and Kits donated as of June 15, 2026. Thank you to everyone who has provided time, money and resources to keep this going. #LosAngeles #AbolishICE Full post here: instagram.com/p/DZo0U3-lUa_/?img_index=1

The Texas GOP just brought an elephant into the convention hall and it apparently pissed all over the place

Every year for Pride, I repost Hue. I made him to send love and comfort to those who feel Pride isn’t for them because they aren’t out. You matter, you are valid, and it’s ok if you aren’t ready yet. Coming out is not a requirement for being part of this community. Happy Pride 🌈

The New York Times—during Pride—published an essay about the joys of being heterosexual. So in the spirit of not doing that, here's my conversation with @chescaleigh.bsky.social about coming out late, finding your queer self on your own timeline, and why it's never too late to be gay.

It's pub day! No better way to resist the erasure of Black history then to buy Black books! Available anywhere books are sold!

Federal immigration agents have been active on Chicago's northwest side this morning. Per videos shared online, at least one person was taken by ICE earlier today near the intersection of Kedzie and Lawrence in the Albany Park neighborhood - one of Chicago's major immigrant communities.

Not all genocides look like the Shoah. They sometimes instead look like Alligator Alcatraz. Or U.S. Executive Order 14168. Or Alberta Bills 26 and 9. The precursor to genocide is social murder, and that’s exactly what @leftistlawyer.com describes here.

The fact that the Republican Party always has legislation to make it harder to vote or to disenfranchise Black people ready to go whenever the Supreme Court takes another whack at the Voting Rights Act tells you...a lot.

bluesky is what you get when a 2010s social network has the administrative staff of a 1990s irc channel

Jurors in Ohio have convicted a former sheriff's deputy of reckless homicide in the shooting of a Black man who was carrying sandwiches into his grandmother's home.

When the photo tells you everything you need to know:

PRAIA, Cape Verde (AP) — Investigators tell AP: Leading theory is couple on cruise ship contracted hantavirus on bird-watching trip in Argentina.

"Federal agents are conducting a raid at the office of L. Louise Lucas, a Democrat who serves as Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore." Lucas, one of Virginia's most powerful lawmakers, was at the forefront of the state's redistricting fight

NYC PLAN is delighted to be tabling at next wknds Black Zine Fair at Powerhouse Arts in BK: BZF is free and open to the public, and will be full of zines, workshops, creativity and joy. We hope to see you there - come say hello to us! Sat, May 9 11am-6pm withfriends.events/event/WFzHwJ...

Still hard to beat the example of Kodak, which INVENTED digital photography but then did nothing with it because they didn’t want to cannibalize their fat film margins.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela is one of the most revered — and controversial — women in South African history. In a new documentary her granddaughters examine the liberation icon in all her complexity. n.pr/4t9KORu

depression is a chemical imbalance there is no wishing nor exercising it away

@hcrichardson.bsky.social Good morning Dorchester!

This is what "nobody is blocked from voting" looks like

Our strongest opposition to Trumpism is to organize and vote en masse. 👉🏼support indie media 👉🏼get involved locally 👉🏼register voters nationwide 👉🏼subscribe to Letters from an American 🇺🇸 by @hcrichardson.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

No demo knows less about race and racism than white people. Why? Whiteness was designed with built-in ignorance, to fulfill their Right To Comfort—a White Supremacy Culture tenet. They have no need to think about race in their everyday; they see themselves as race-less, certainly not “of color.”

The women-led Venice Biennale Jury resigned today, a week after its statement to omit Russia and Israel from consideration and less than a week before the pre-opening.

Got up early in hopes of catching this photo before work this morning. There's only a few days each year where it's cool enough in the morning to make this shot possible. Thankfully, today was one of those days! #wildlife #birds