asst prof. writing & thinking Black Studies north of the 49th. currently writing: Black Grammars: On Difference and Belonging. something worthwhile happens here
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yeah, the key board was smoking after he hit that final period. well done @JustinTinsley, well done. salute.
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RT @shootmeadub: “What I knew that my critical elders didn’t…was that hip-hop mattered from the get-go. That once again, the African Americ…
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A historian of Black Canada gives a report card on Ontario’s new mandated Black history education
sootoday.com/ontario-news/a-…
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Elmiene & Tank singing Whitney Houston is my favorite thing today.
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something to discuss on the show, i imagine @spaikin @jm_mcgrath
BREAKING: The Ford government is changing Ontario's Freedom Of Information act system, effectively gutting a tool journalists use to obtain documents related to government decision-making:
- The Premier, Ministers and their offices will all be excluded from the FOI system.
- This applies to all existing requests
- Only civil servants can be FOI'd
- The government is extending the response timeline from 30 calendar days to 45 business days.
#onpoli
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some days it just hits. today is one of those some days. missing my ppl that aren't here anymore. miss kicking it w/ them about nothing at all, the not so memorable days of just spending time doing nothing that's the only freedom we knew, in company of those that reciprocate care
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Land. Sea. Sugar. Salt.: Terrestrial and Aquatic Contemplations of the Caribbean is curated by Michelle Jacques, Head of Exhibitions & Collections/Chief Curator, and Sally Frater, Senior Curator/Curatorial Manager of Remai Modern.
artmuseum.utoronto.ca/exhibi…
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The African American, African, and Black Diaspora Studies e-book collection for libraries includes 636 titles that span the humanities and social sciences, covering history, religion, literature, art, anthropology, and more.
Browse the collection: buff.ly/w8N90XK
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This Friday in Toronto.
Jamaica Household Workers’ Union is asking for your solidarity. Domestic workers in western 🇯🇲 were hit hard by Hurricane Melissa. Homes damaged, income lost.
Purchase tickets via @jcaontario (scan QR👇). Proceeds go to JHWU’s hurricane recovery fund.
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teaching walcott's "Caribbean Pop Culture in Canada; Or, the Impossibility of Belonging to the Nation" mark campbell's "Other/ed Kinds of Blackness: An Afrodiasporic Versioning of Black Canada."
today is going to be a good day💙🖤
that means playing deborah cox, k'naan & shad🎵🎵
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“the function of freedom is to free someone else.” -toni morrison
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The John Hope Franklin Research Center at @DukeU is pleased to share that the archive of philosopher, scholar, and author Sylvia Wynter will be opened to the public beginning March 3
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"It's like the sun's coming through..."
Today is D'Angelo's b-day. 🕊️ Let's celebrate by watching these two dudes simultaneously nerd out over and get lost in the last couple of minutes of "How Does It Feel." This is what good music does.
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