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Malcolm-Jamal Warner was not only Black television royalty, he was a Grammy Award winning poet and talented musician in a jazz band. May he rest in peace 💛

( from Cymbeline) “Fear no more the heat o’ the sun, Nor the furious winter’s rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta’en thy wages: Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.”

Wendell Pierce Mad love. #Love! Black history is more than a month….🫡🙏🏿✊🏿🤎❤️

Femi Robinson rose to prominence starring in Ola Rotimi’s 1968 play, The Gods Are Not to Blame. However, he's best known for his role as the titular character in The Village Headmaster, Nigeria’s longest-running television soap opera, which aired from 1968 to 1988. His portrayal

Shocking statement about how the journalists the world has been relying on for images and reports about what’s going on in Gaza are slowly dying of starvation AFP News Agency 🧵

The Last Blessing: a daughter remembers Awolowo’s final words That morning, the sky wore no sign of parting. They came, as always, to sit in the warmth of his wisdom, They spoke, not knowing time was folding its wings. As they rose to leave, he looked at her, then, gently, like

Awolowo's house as it's always been.

Politics at its most cynical. Cabinet ministers spinning their own handwringing as courage to avoid the rap… This isn’t moral conviction, it’s performative angst from a cabinet putting their jobs first.

It’s crazy that this most disingenuous of questions is still being asked today

Why Ojukwu Had Banjo Executed: A Story of War and Consequence Kanayo Esinulo, author of Ojukwu: Exile, Diplomacy and Survival, speaks about one of the most tragic and controversial decisions of the Biafran War, the execution of Colonel Victor Banjo by Emeka Ojukwu. In this

Can’t help but think of Live Aid and other such self-congratulatory spectacles vs the ongoing spectacle of silence accompanying this entirely preventable mass famine.

Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, Brought from a pensive though a happy place. Wordsworth

if you're wondering why 'the dam has broken' on Gaza, it's simple. Israel carried out their final solution. It's done. Every town has been flattened, everyone still alive is experiencing a level of famine they can't come back from. Criticizing it now is too late. That's why.

She once studied poetry under Refaat Alareer. Her mother made her egg sandwiches every morning. Her home and university are now rubble. Her mother and professor were taken in the war. In Gaza, Shahad Ali writes about all that was lost, and what survives. palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657633

My problem with all this data we’re collecting that we only use it for extractive agendas. It’s never collected and managed in a way that drives proper planing, or used to inform policy that improves or supports its subjects.

Sky News His family were Scottish and German. Immigrants.

“Our language, our music, and our manners are increasingly raucous, self-centred, and offensive, as though beauty and good taste have no real place in our lives. One word is written large on all these ugly things, and that word is ‘me’.” Sir Roger Scruton

Yul Brynner photographed by Yousuf Karsh in 1956, the year that Brynner starred as King Mongkut in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “The King and I” for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1957.

BBC, Reuters among 4 news organizations saying their journalists face starvation in Gaza cbc.ca/news/world/new…

“I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.” ― Roland Barthes