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The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Tales and Conjurations by Charles Johnson A masterful collection of short stories that seamlessly interweaves African American folklore, traditional southern #rootwork, and deep philosophical queries.

In The Lynchers, four Black men in Philadelphia plot to turn history on its head by staging the ritualistic lynching of a corrupt white police officer. This book is anchored by a core inquiry: ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴅᴏᴇꜱ ɪᴛ ᴛᴀᴋᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴛʀᴜʟʏ ʙʀᴇᴀᴋ ꜰʀᴇᴇ ꜰʀᴏᴍ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘꜱʏᴄʜᴏʟᴏɢɪᴄᴀʟ ᴀɴᴅ ꜱᴛʀᴜᴄᴛᴜʀᴀʟ ꜰʀᴀᴍᴇᴡᴏʀᴋ ᴏꜰ ᴡʜɪᴛᴇ ꜱᴜᴘʀᴇᴍᴀᴄʏ?

Food Power Politics by Bobby J. Smith II explores how food access was weaponized against Black voting rights—and how Black-led cooperatives and food drives built power and independence. An essential read connecting civil rights history to today’s fight for food sovereignty. #FoodJustice #UjamaaFCA

The cookout is sacred You don't get invited, if you aint initiated.

Before PineSol was bottled in 1929, Black families boiled pine needles to wash floors and clear unwanted energies. #Hoodoo persists in plain sight through household traditions. Commercialization tells an old story: Black knowledge bottled, branded, and sold while its keepers go uncredited. #TheWay

We stared into the medium long enough that the medium learned how to stare back. And now it changes what we see according to what it saw in us. #AlgoRhythm

Who's real the G.O.A.T in this scenario 😅

October 2026 marks 500 years since enslaved Black people led the first successful revolt gainst slavery in America. #500YearsOfResistance #sanmigueldegualdape

Living with chronic pain changed me in a way I still haven't fully accepted. I get to meet myself anew every single day. Its quite a beautiful struggle. Learning new ways to cope, handling things I'm sure I've neglected to address maybe out of fear or denial. #disability

My most prized possession is breath, although it doesn't belong to me. Its mines only for a brief moment in time. Loaned to me, then it leaves me only to return right back to me almost immediately after its taken. #JustMyThoughts

𝐈'𝐦 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞... 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐠𝐨 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬. 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠. 𝐎𝐤𝐫𝐚 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧. 𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐚 𝐑𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐲. 𝐌𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐞, 𝐘𝐚𝐳𝐨𝐨, 𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢 𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤. 𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭, 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞, 𝐊𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬. 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤. 🙌🏾💪🏾🫶🏿 #BdayLoadingSoon

My aunties and Grandma. Her 100th birthday would've been in a few weeks. I miss you 🥹❤️🕊

Becoming often requires freedom from witnesses. When nobody is watching, you can shed an identity without immediately having to replace it. You can contradict your former self. You can be unfinished. #StillBecomingWhoIAm #ThinkBetter💭

Worth revisiting from time to time. Aint nothing changed but the justification grammar of the boot on our collective neck. youtube.com/watch?v=AFGk...

You slavers will know What it's like to be a slave Slave to your heart Slave to your soul #NinaSimon #Dambala #MiddayMusicMention #VinylSky

Reaching out to touch a stranger Electric eyes are everywhere. #HumanNature

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when nothing is left to take away." -Mongo Santamaría #vinyl #QOTD

Preserving the sacred ritual of storytelling around the fire. Today's reflection is; What stories am I telling myself? #Vinyl #Sage #stahvinstudent💫

The Cassette Tapes of the Great Migration daily.jstor.org/the-cassette...

Breath is the original movement. The first rhythm. The oldest technology of life. #insomnia

"Power resides where men believe it resides. No more and no less." -Lord Varys

@shayllou.bsky.social this was an interesting read

Mama Earth Said- Can I live? Why have you forsaken me. My child. Why!? Haven't I given everything? Freely. I fed you. I clothed you. I housed you. Mama gotta have a life too. Can I live? -DocDidit 2026 #Poetry

Remember: you are being carried, not merely standing still. Mama Earth is twirling us all through the sky. Every day is an opportunity to dance a beautiful dance with her. What kind of dance will you offer her back today?

#Insomnia

I am, because we are. Strength is in the weave not the strand.

Who knows what tomorrow brings In this world where everyone's blind. youtube.com/watch?v=XEVN...

Happy Birthday America. You Don't Look A Day Over Slavery.... y'all be good 🙌🏾😁

I was gifted an Owl feather today. The brother was from Chile, he's an artist, and he said something told him it was for me. He said he just felt it, and he tied it around my walking stick. #ThatWasAGoodOmen

"Had you been practicing yo art, you'd know your way in the dark" -Butter Fly Jones #Aphorisms

Lauryn Hill just snapped. #IGotChills

I'm not living to preserve my name. I'm living to preserve and strengthen an inheritance. Assuming that future generations will surpass me in wisdom. Im leaving them principles rather than prescriptions. #ImAStoneInABridgeIDidntStart

Its been a minute. This was August 2020.

You survived. I know you had to become hard. I know you lost people. I know you saw too much. But I’m still here. We’re still becoming. And I’m going to carry us differently now. #NoteToSelf

Everybody loves the sunshine. youtube.com/watch?v=9EhI...

I aint no perfect man, im trying to do the best that I can. youtube.com/watch?v=TM8r...

It aint easy being disabled and wanting more for yourself and your people. I have to constantly remind myself not to give up. Not to let my limitations imprison me. #ThisShitAintEasy youtu.be/YE2lgI5nnQE?...

"The town that chose to thrive." #Allensworth #BlackLandStewards youtube.com/watch?v=ibQU...

Had surgery on Tuesday and damn.... I just want this phase of my life to be done.

Top tier song and visuals youtube.com/watch?v=ylpG...

As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man There are only four things certain since Social Progress began That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire, And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire #TheCycleContinues #Learn

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Out and about. #♿️🥷🏾