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An Idaho teacher is refusing to back down after school district officials ordered her to remove classroom signs like, “Everyone is welcome here.” “There are only two opinions on this sign: Everyone is welcome here, or not everyone is welcome here,” said the sixth-grade history

“I refuse to adopt the idea that me being an athlete, I’m just an entertainer or performer. We are leaders, thinkers, and architects of culture. Yet, the system has conditioned us to believe our only value is what we produce on the court” ~Jaylen Brown #19keys

Haha we still look the same! 30 years where???

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Amarr Knox and DaKiyah Sanders are engaged. On Tuesday, Knox helped Alabama State get its first NCAA Tournament win. On Wednesday, Sanders helped Southern get its first NCAA Tournament win.

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happy birthday to the great #StephanieMills substack.com/home/post/p-15…

pre-internet era: I had a column in SPIN, “Dreaming America.” was still learning my voice. this essay about #ArethaFranklin was published in '94. on the occasion of Franklin’s 2018 death, SPIN posted it. today is her birthday. Aretha would've been 83 spin.com/2018/08/aretha…

today is Aretha Franklin’s birthday. in the Franklin episode of my Black Girl Songbook podcast we walk through a daydream of Aretha’s girlhood and her deep relationship with her mother, Barbara open.spotify.com/episode/4hyhb6…

TATUM EUROSTEP ….FILTHY 😮‍💨🔥 ( credit: Danielle Hobeika )

THREAD: Last year, ProPublica started receiving tips from an unusual kind of source: flight attendants. They said they'd worked on deportation flights for ICE, and they could tell us what it was really like on board. 1/

usually southern california, but today, pitt

April 12 is the 20th anniversary of Mariah Carey’s The Emancipation of Mimi. Let’s flip through a tiny bit of my Mariah scrapbook shinebrighthq.substack.com/p/me-and-maria…

Lambs!!

THE ROAD TO BANNER 19 HAS OFFICIALLY BEGUN

indie bookstores are my creative lifeline. from the quiet corners where I was inspired to finish "Shine Bright" to the shelves where my novels found their folks. for #independentbookstoreday Bookshop.org US has 🆓 shipping all weekend — support where u can bookshop.org/p/books/shine-…

🏈#JalenHurts is in the news today for his decision to skip the White House ceremony. i can say this: beyond the Super Bowl ring and headline-making decisions, he's genuinely one of the most grounded, purpose-driven athletes I've profiled essence.com/culture/jalen-…

okay so there’s a horse named Journalism in the Kentucky Derby. and it is apparently a frontrunner courier-journal.com/story/sports/h…

my imaginary money is on Journalism to place #KentuckyDerby

#janetjackson was born on this day, May 16 1966 shinebrighthq.substack.com/p/the-legend-o…