Natasha Lightfoot 🇦🇬 (@njlightfoot) 's Twitter Profile
Natasha Lightfoot 🇦🇬

@njlightfoot

historian. geek. pop culture fiend. fashionista. caribbean queen. bronx broad. mother. daughter. fighter. thinker.

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linkhttps://www.dukeupress.edu/troubling-freedom calendar_today18-04-2014 19:16:32

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@zohrankmamdani) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Trump's ICE is now kidnapping New York City high school students. This is where Eric Adams' silence and complicity has led us. Free Dylan now.

Trump's ICE is now kidnapping New York City high school students. This is where Eric Adams' silence and complicity has led us. 

Free Dylan now.
Love Sponge (@lolaoflucia) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I want to remind y’all that there was once no baggage fees on any flights. That full meals plus snacks were standard. That you got headphones and pillows and blankets and toys. This is greed. A response to a recession is now the standard — all while reporting record profits.

Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Marco Rubio, immediately after saying he's pausing all student visas, celebrated the University of Florida winning a national basketball championship. Does he know that that team included key players on student visas from Nigeria, Australia, Slovenia, Lithuania, Serbia, and

A.R. Moxon 🦋 (@juliusgoat) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Pretty wild to be living in a time when humans are being forced to work in order to even be considered deserving of life or even to be considered human at all, while simultaneously human labor is being systematically eliminated from the concept of work.

Yuh-Line Niou (@yuhline) 's Twitter Profile Photo

As one of the Democrats that made him step down, I am very disappointed in my colleagues who also asked him to step down as Governor and now are endorsing him for Mayor.

Mukoma Wa Ngugi (@mukomawangugi) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It tears my heart to say that my father, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o passed away earlier today. I am me because of him in so many ways, as his child, scholar and writer. I love him - I am not sure what tomorrow will bring without him here. I think that is all I have to say for now.

It tears my heart to say that my father, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o passed away earlier today. I am me because of him in so many ways, as his child, scholar and writer. I love him - I am not sure what tomorrow will bring without him here.  I think that is all I have to say for now.
Umuọfià Arts and Books Festival (@umuofiabookfest) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“In Colonial conquest, language did to the mind what machetes did to the bodies of the colonized.” -Ngugi Wa Thiong’o Rest in Peace, legend.

“In Colonial conquest, language did to the mind what machetes did to the bodies of the colonized.”

-Ngugi Wa Thiong’o 

Rest in Peace, legend.
Natasha Lightfoot 🇦🇬 (@njlightfoot) 's Twitter Profile Photo

May I please get two followers to copy and re-post this tweet? I'm trying to demonstrate that someone is always listening. #SuicidePrevention 1-800-273-8255 Just two. Any two... Copy, not retweet

New York Magazine (@nymag) 's Twitter Profile Photo

When Mahmoud Khalil was arrested in March, his wife, Noor Abdalla, was eight months pregnant. She assumed he’d be released soon; he has a green card and still hasn’t been charged with a crime. The days after his arrest blurred together. Friends brought food; she paced the

When Mahmoud Khalil was arrested in March, his wife, Noor Abdalla, was eight months pregnant. She assumed he’d be released soon; he has a green card and still hasn’t been charged with a crime. The days after his arrest blurred together. Friends brought food; she paced the
New York Magazine (@nymag) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Read more about how Abdalla is navigating life with a newborn, Khalil’s first time holding Deen, and what comes next for their family. thecut.com/article/mahmou…

Louis Theroux (@louistheroux) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The Settlers, the doc I made for the BBC, is now available to stream in the US on BBC Select. It couldn’t be more timely with the announcement today that the Israeli govt has approved construction of 22 new settlements in the West Bank - which are illegal under international law.

The Settlers, the doc I made for the BBC, is now available to stream in the US on BBC Select. It couldn’t be more timely with the announcement today that the Israeli govt has approved construction of 22 new settlements in the West Bank - which are illegal under international law.
Black Film Alerts 🎥 (@blackfilmalerts) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The first screening of Ryan Coogler’s ‘Sinners’ in Clarksdale, Mississippi. This is the first time a lot of people in Clarksdale have been abled to watch the film for the first time. Ryan Coogler, Zinzi Evans, and Miles Caton were all in attendance. 📸: @/Carmen_A_Jude

The first screening of Ryan Coogler’s ‘Sinners’ in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

This is the first time a lot of people in Clarksdale have been abled to watch the film for the first time. Ryan Coogler, Zinzi Evans, and Miles Caton were all in attendance. 

📸: @/Carmen_A_Jude
Kareem Carr, Statistics Person (@kareem_carr) 's Twitter Profile Photo

wild to me how much of a nothing burger AI has been so far. it’s been 2.5 years and the most tangible effects of AI are students cheating more and slightly more realistic facebook slop.

philip lewis (@phil_lewis_) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The mayor of Tulsa announced plans for a $105 million private charitable trust to provide descendants of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre with housing assistance and scholarships whatimreading.net/p/tulsas-mayor…