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Award-winning freelance journalist. Husband. Dad. MAD host. Cultural commentator. FAMU forever.

Everywhere and nowhere.
Joined January 2015
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Game 7. Ballhalloween. Can’t wait.
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Venezuela won the World Baseball Classic and one of its countrymen won World Series MVP 🔥
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Brewers and Rays bring big World Series drama with smaller payrolls | @differencemakin The World Series is off to a rollicking start featuring the small-market Milwaukee Brewers and Tampa Bay Rays. csmonitor.com/Arts-Culture/2… | @csmonitor
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Kohen Wiley's tiny coffin carried out by children at his funeral The 1 year old was shot by police at a Walmart The officer got away with it
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Clearing his name after he’s no longer here to see it. Rest in peace, Professor Jason Arday. You deserved your flowers while you were still, here. #writing #WritingCommmunity
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Media outlets focusing more on where WNBA games will be played than THE ACTUAL GAMES is such intellectually dishonest coverage. Anti-Black and anti-women as well.
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If Rhyne woulda hit that lay off the AR no-look, Game 4 would be at Mercedes-Benz because the fans woulda tore the roof off of State Farm.
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The fallaway DB just hit was more unconscious than the deep 3 🤣🤣🤣
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Luda at the WNBA Finals! Bonus points for the African American College Alliance hoodie ✊🏾
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The NFL has concluded that the process surrounding Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts being cleared to play in Week 5 with a superficial blood clot “was handled appropriately,” a league source tells @TheAthletic nytimes.com/athletic/7708077…
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“When the opportunity has been present, the black bourgeoisie has exploited the Negro masses as ruthlessly as have whites. …They have never dared think beyond a narrow, opportunistic philosophy that provided a rationalization for their own advantages.” — E. Franklin Frazier
Why hasn’t the Black elite class advocated to form a Black political party?
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Today is Monday & my frustration w/folks that do panels, festivals, award shows, & interviews about inner city issues yet only show up to TALK about the work needed to be done. Especially during voting cycles.
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Black men have the worst response rate from elected officials, I wonder why they might be disengaged from voting…
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I don’t want to understate Angel Reese’s skill set but her force of will has defined this game. It’s been amazing to watch. (She just grabbed a FOH rebound as I typed this.)
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I don’t really care for all the people wishing Americans protested like the French because when there was a nation-wide protest that started from Black people challenging police brutality, a lot of people were cheering on the police and state kidnapping and running people over
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Now that’s how you end the quarter Jordin Canada!
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Angel Reese is must see TV. On the game’s highest stage.
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Given everything that's happened with Jalen Hurts, I thought it was best to speak with a physician—a Black woman physician. Like many other Eagles fans, she doesn't play about QB1 either. 👩🏾‍⚕️🩺 phillytrib.com/news/local_ne…
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Truth is, Jalen Hurts deserves quality and humane healthcare whether he’s a Super Bowl champ or not. Good healthcare shouldn’t need a qualifier — and that includes employment. Hope this helps.
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I am quite enjoying this SEC Survivor Series.
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