Films featuring nonprofessional actors offer “flavors of performance that differ drastically from what can be achieved with a uniformly skilled cast of professionals,” @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/RDjy_g
Help save lives at Stoneview this Saturday! The Red Cross will host a blood drive from 8am - 2pm. Sign up via the QR code. Then be sure to join us after you donate for our Black Heritage festivities!
Thanks...and see you Saturday!
Stoneview Nature Center
5950 Stoneview Drive
Culver City, CA 90232
Exactly!
We're hosting our FIRST Lunar New Year event at Stoneview Nature Center!
Sat., 2/21 | 11AM-2PM
FREE • All ages
✨ Live music
📚 Storytime reading of "Sparkles for Sunny"
🧧 Red envelopes for first 25 kids
🐴 Fire Horse Scavenger Hunt
+ more!
5950 Stoneview Dr, Culver City
Gong Xi Fa Cai! 🎋✨
Join me at Stoneview Nature Center in Culver City for our Black Heritage/A Day in Nature on Feb. 28; 11AM-3PM! This FREE, all-ages event features:
🥁 A drum circle meditation
🎶 A youth choir performance
🪶 Animal presentations
🍦 Eats and treats
🩸 An American Red Cross blood drive
And much more!
Congratulations!
Because the Trump Administration doesn't want you to see it, I'm sharing it: Peter (formerly identified as "Gordon") / By Mathew Brady Studio / Copy after: William D. McPherson, Copy after: Mr. Oliver, 1863
Albumen silver print
#thisisamerica
To all professionals (and retirees) in the journalism, film, television, theatre, entertainment, and arts world, join the challenge to post a photo of yourself in your job. Just a picture, no description. The goal is to flood social media with our profession. Copy the text. Post a pic on YOUR page.
"There is part of me that, I will be able to leave this Earth knowing, and people knowing, that I was a good person." -Malcolm Jamal Warner
Five under the radar things Trump snuck into his "Big Beautiful Bill":
- Delivers tax breaks to Big Oil
- Defunds Planned Parenthood
- Raises drug prices for seniors (Big Pharma giveaway)
- Hikes monthly student loan payments
- Makes ICE the biggest federal law enforcement agency
Pause. Rest. Be.: An essential read for unprecedented change.
Thanks to my friends at Black Being L.A. for introducing this to my reading list and meditation practice.
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Preparing for Sunday's "Day of the Ancestors: Festival of Masks" this Sunday in Leimert Park celebrating the lives of, among others, SoCal poet, writer, and culture worker Peter J. Harris. I am honored to speak on behalf of my friend and comrade-in-arts.
Details in flyer.
Produced by LA Commons.
Talking reproductive heslth, reproductive justice and bodily autonomy today with the California Black Women's Health Project.
I never dreamed this would be my lane. But I know this is exactly where I'm supposed to be.
Took home first and third place honors at the Southern California Journalism Awards last night for my piece, "Reclaiming Catherine...and all Black wombs, because they matter."
I dedicate this win to my Grandmama Catherine and to Adriana Smith. They deserved better.
#lapressclub
Dog lover. Nature enthusiast. Octavia E. Butler was just like us @stoneviewnc.
Today, our BGs Book Club discusses "The Parable of the Sower," Butler's seminal work, on her birthday... and our book club's second anniversary!
It's a celebration all around!
"Congress, where are you?"
#nowarwithiran
"...at the heart of that day in Galveston and in the entirety of American life: there is a vast chasm between the concept of freedom inscribed on paper and the reality of freedom in our lives." -Jelani Cobb, "Juneteenth and the Meaning of Freedom"
🎨 Harmonia Rosales “Migration of the Gods”
Absolutely! #Juneteenth
Sign o' the times.
#nokings
The day has been exhausting.
"As Black women, we have all kinds of factors we’re not even aware of that contribute to cancer impinging upon us. Increase your knowledge about how to prevent getting here in the first place. Prevention is the real cure." -Ananda Lewis to Essence Magazine, January 2025. #RIP
“Everybody is a star/ Who would rain and chase the dust away/ Everybody wants to shine/ Who’ll come out on a cloudy day… When the system tries to bring you down/ You don’t need darkness to do what you think is right.” -Sly Stone (1943-2025)
Another deplorable move from the criminal in the White House. 💔
The reason we say Black history is American history is...because it is. As we honor those who died in service of our country know that the commemoration of #MemorialDay started with Black folks.
Read all about it: time.com/5836444/blac...
A Message from the Earth: You are enough.
And so am I.
🎶Another one bites the dust
🎶Another one bites the dust
🎶And another one gone, and another one gone
🎶Another one bites the dust (yeah)...
And just like that...
