.. and then disguise it as art so the feds back up. contributing editor ✍🏿 / @friezeofficial & @Tate_Publishing / hi@riannajadeparker.com
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Jun 4
might be my greatest tweet ever
My philosophy is what @DijahSB said, if I like you, you a victim of capitalism, if we be beefing you a bald headed broke ass bitch 🤷🏾♀️
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Jun 2
My barber gon tell me “happy pride month” in a shop full of niggas
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Black folks sense of humanity has kept many throats intact.
Jun 2
This is a recorded interview with a woman who grew up on a rice plantation before the Civil War.
Listen to how she remembers it.
"It was a lovely happy time," she says, "living in open spaces with many lovely colored people and animals and flowers and fields."
She describes Saturdays riding a buggy to the plantation, a dairyman named April who "didn't do anything else but love us and skim cream," a cook "we adored."
Nearly a hundred enslaved people on the property. In her telling, they were not the enslaved — they were "our friends."
Then the part that gives the whole thing away:
"It's no disgrace to see they're like children… because they are like happy children, some of them, because they like to sit in the sun rather than work hard, and they'd rather play than work."
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May 30
Oh, we are so back! The 2026 Summer Course applications are officially open! This year, we welcome applicants from all over the Caribbean! Come spend time learning with a vibrant cohort over six weeks. Small stipend of US$250 included for each student. See you on the other side!
3 Jun 2025
If you’re already following my new queer and trans Jamaican initiative on Instagram (thepalavaproject), then you might already know that I’m teaching a free online course this summer. Small stipend included for each student. Apply, apply, apply!
Follow the insta for more info!
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No one delivers a eulogy quite like George Lamming. Farewell (again), Nello.
#OtD 31 May 1989 legendary Trinidadian Marxist, CLR James, died in London aged 88. He wrote The Black Jacobins, the definitive history of the Haitian Revolution, as well as influential texts on class, colonialism and cricket. See some of his works here: shop.workingclasshistory.com…
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May 26
The last survivor from the famous A Great Day in Harlem picture 🙏🏾
May 26
Sonny Rollins, one of the most influential Jazz musicians of our time, died this afternoon. He was 95
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May 24
If I told you that back in the 1700s, British plantation owners in Jamaica were so terrified of enslaved Ghanaians that they tried to pass an actual law in parliament to ban the import of people from the Gold Coast, you’d think I’m lying . Below is the story of the Coromantees…
May 12
What historical fact sounds fake but is true?
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May 26
i feel like not a lot of us talk about the impeccable Groundings with my brothers.
“But culture is not a dead thing, nor does it always remain the same. It belongs to living people and is therefore always developing”
- Walter Rodney!
Also, a must read!
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May 25
“The notable fact is that the only so-called popular music in this country of any real value is of African derivation.” - Amiri Baraka
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May 24
And if you sit around today and listen to cishet BM talk about PanAfricanism you’d have no clue about Sankara’s feminist bent or the feminist elements in various iterations of PanAfricanist thought.
May 24
"Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women."
Thomas Sankara linked feminism with anti-colonialism and social justice. He argued that women’s liberation was essential for national progress and challenged traditional gender roles in Burkina Faso.
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May 22
Anyway, here’s my favorite clip from Joy James talking about the class divide between the Black middle class and poor.
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Tunisian filmmaker, critic, and historian Férid Boughedir’s 1983 documentary "Caméra d’Afrique" screens in 2K restoration at the 33rd New York African Film Festival today, Saturday, May 9, at noon.
The film premiered in Cannes Un Certain Regard in 1983 and returned to Cannes Classics in 2019 after restoration by France’s Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée with support from the Institut français.
"Caméra d’Afrique" brings together film extracts, archival footage, and interviews with Ousmane Sembène, Med Hondo, Safi Faye, Souleymane Cissé, Jean-Pierre Dikongué-Pipa, Inoussa Ousseini, Gaston Kaboré, and Tahar Cheriaa.
Boughedir spent ten years making the film with limited money, filmmaker cooperation, and postproduction support from Andrée Davanture’s Atria, a key structure for Francophone African cinema between 1980 and 1999.
NYAFF has named Boughedir an honored pioneer. Today’s extended conversation offers a rare chance to revisit what "Caméra d’Afrique" recorded, after four more decades of African film, television, video, festivals, and streaming activity.
#AfricanCinema
#CameraDAfrique
#NYAFF2026
#FilmHistory
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Rastafarian Revolutionaries speak about the CIA’s role in destabilizing the Grenadian Revolution. Grenada, 1983.
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Apr 28
Simple: they have a caste system that predates the transatlantic European slave trade.
Colourism amongst South Asians is really something to witness. But they’re not hyper-visible and over-critiqued in the same way, and there’s always a lesser alt: the Blacks.
Apr 26
An intellectual Indian man explains the anti-blackness in India and other South Asian countries.
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proof 🤝 pudding
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My co-authored article entitled “On Anti-black Solidarity and The Collective Unconscious” should be out by Monday. It’s a political, philosophical, and psychoanalytical piece that explains why white and non-black people of color have an alliance in upholding anti-blackness.
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My co-authored article entitled “On Anti-black Solidarity and The Collective Unconscious” should be out by Monday. It’s a political, philosophical, and psychoanalytical piece that explains why white and non-black people of color have an alliance in upholding anti-blackness.
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