Kiese Laymon (@baizeshephard) 's Twitter Profile
Kiese Laymon

@baizeshephard

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Jarvis C. McInnis (@profmcinnis) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Happy Official Pub Day to my book, AFTERLIVES OF THE PLANTATION by Columbia University Press! May also marks 100 years of SchomburgCenter, where I researched & wrote several chapters, & today is Stevie Wonder's 75th birthday! Check out my return to the Schomburg to celebrate these milestones!

Corey J. Miles (@coreymiles__) 's Twitter Profile Photo

i hate having random conversation with white folks in Ubers & other spaces I can't easily get out. they are going to ask me what i do and when i say professor, we are two questions away from stuff getting uncomfortable

Kashif Chaudhry (@kashifmd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

BREAKING: In an Oped today, Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert accuses Israel of war crimes. “What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, & criminal killing of civilians... a policy dictated knowingly, intentionally,

BREAKING: In an Oped today, Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert accuses Israel of war crimes.

“What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, & criminal killing of civilians... a policy dictated knowingly, intentionally,
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Netflix’s ‘Forever’ succeeds by allowing Black teens to be free — and in love | David Dennis Jr. | Andscape Based on a Judy Blume novel, this Mara Brock Akil series showcases unproblematic Black love andscape.com/features/netfl…

Mr. Franklin (@kamikaze601) 's Twitter Profile Photo

JACKSON, MS The club owner of the Holly Springs club has released the video from his surveillance cameras THE WHITE GUY WAS CLEARLY THE AGGRESSOR! Security let him make it, but he returned. The only person that should be arrested is the white guy.

SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (Simon & Schuster, 2026) (@newblackman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

So Hard to Say Goodbye: The Oral History of Cooley High The cast and crew of the 1975 Black cinema classic reminisce about making one of the greatest Chicago films of all time. chicagomag.com/arts-culture/s…

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"In this mega-hyped attention economy, choosing how we pay attention is actually a small miracle." Kiese Laymon interviews Chi Rainer Bornfree☀️they/them and Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan about their epistolary pandemic memoir, "The End Doesn’t Happen All at Once." lareviewofbooks.org/article/did-th…

"In this mega-hyped attention economy, choosing how we pay attention is actually a small miracle."

Kiese Laymon interviews <a href="/freetobeChi/">Chi Rainer Bornfree☀️they/them</a> and Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan about their epistolary pandemic memoir, "The End Doesn’t Happen All at Once." lareviewofbooks.org/article/did-th…
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“When I got your manuscript, I was so excited…I felt thankful, & honored, people were out there doing work that I had been unable to do” says Keise Laymon Kiese Laymon of The End Doesn’t Happen All at Once by Chi Rainer Bornfree☀️they/them & RaginiTharoorSrinivasan lareviewofbooks.org/article/did-th…

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Did the Pandemic Ever End? Kiese Laymon interviews Chi Rainer Bornfree and Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan about their epistolary pandemic memoir, “The End Doesn’t Happen All at Once.” lareviewofbooks.org/article/did-th…

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"It felt like looking directly into the sun." Kiese Laymon interviews Chi Rainer Bornfree☀️they/them and Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan about "The End Doesn’t Happen All at Once." lareviewofbooks.org/article/did-th…

Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan (@shobhatharoor) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“It is an incandescent, consummate work of relentless exposition,” says #UtkarshManiTripathi in his review of The End Doesn’t Happen All At Once. telegraphindia.com/books/a-honeye… Aleph Book Company Kanishka Gupta Chi Rainer Bornfree☀️they/them Kiese Laymon

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Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is a reverse-Robin Hood nightmare. It steals from the poor to give to the rich. Here is a survey of seven terrible tricks up the sleeves of the Big Beautiful Bill: rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is a reverse-Robin Hood nightmare. It steals from the poor to give to the rich.

Here is a survey of seven terrible tricks up the sleeves of the Big Beautiful Bill: rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
NFR Podcast (@nfr_podcast) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Pusha T on his relationship with Kanye — says he “isn’t a man” to him “He's a genius. And his intuition is even more genius level, right? That’s why me & him don't get along, because he sees through my fakeness with him. He knows I don't think he's a man. He knows it.” “And

Pusha T on his relationship with Kanye — says he “isn’t a man” to him

“He's a genius. And his intuition is even more genius level, right? That’s why me &amp; him don't get along, because he sees through my fakeness with him. He knows I don't think he's a man. He knows it.” 

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Cross River is a small, fictional town in Maryland that rose from the country’s only successful slave revolt in the early nineteenth century. In surreal, lyrical, darkly comical prose…Rion Amilcar Scott weaves a tapestry of genres crimereads.com/small-town-got…

Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH (@geauxgabrielle) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I’m an epidemiologist and I’ve been all over this world. Mark my words, I PROMISE YOU, Americans will be forced to present vaccination records or be forced to obtain stronger visas (which have vaccine requirements) to travel outside the US. I GUARANTEE it. You antivaxxers can

VS the Podcast (@vsthepodcast) 's Twitter Profile Photo

On today’s episode, Brittany and Ajanae talk with Deesha Philyaw and Kiese Laymon Kiese Laymon—phenomenal writers and co-hosts of the podcast, Reckon True Stories. #VSthePodcast Listen here: bit.ly/3HRZylS

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Napheesa Collier on the shootings of DFL representatives in Minnesota “It’s really scary, especially to raise a kid, in an environment like this where she has less rights than I had growing up… especially as athletes we have a platform, and I think we need to use it to speak