“I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED / GENOCIDE TO STOP.” —June Jordan

.ROBERT LUIS - Tru Thoughts Unfold 📻Listen on Mixcloud + SoundCloud A show influenced by artists/DJs/music from We Out Here Festival: aja monet, Andre 3000, Tara Lily, Dee Dee Bridgewater Dee Dee Bridgewater, Asha Puthli, Steven Bamidele, Allysha Joy, Omar lyefook MBE & Zed Bias, Mr. Vegas, Midas

The Detroit Jazz Festival is free and serious, its being free does not stop it from being rigorous, and then there are the jazz festivals that sell tiered tickets and seem like they are trying to sell the artform to the funders of the DNC.

we need new words Lucille Clifton

Who and what in the hell? Someone get me in touch with who ever tweeted this please

“on the other side of now is a door where we return.” - aja monet

— James Baldwin

NYC

First day of classes at Columbia University

My favorite haiku from Sonia Sanchez for her birthday ✨

This is how Palestinians honoured a US citizen The US Government couldn’t even acknowledge what Israelis did to her

Bukowski

They’re trying to ban the ability to protest in Los Angeles

The fascism is getting turned up in Los Angeles

I wish he was right about her hating Israel

I’m Jazmyne Baylor, a Research & Instruction Librarian at Western Carolina University. I’m researching African American libraries and reading spaces in Appalachia during the segregation era. For more information, email Jazmyne Baylor at [email protected]

“Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy” — Thelonious Monk