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le wooberine @woobewty.bsky.social · 11h

yall 😭

a threads screenshot from user @/mvalrie

Has the Grim Reaper been replaced by a male Instacart shopper? Because he's putting everything in the cart but what we ordered. 🕊️😕

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Terrance @stickysweett.bsky.social · 23h

Black Men!! THIS!!! ✊🏽🤎

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Ree @thebellamama.blacksky.app · 21h

Girl!!
I need this to be fake. I know I'm short but this here looks diabolical 🥲 How many people are looking at the top of my head?!?! I'm 4'11 so there are a lot or people who are intimate with my scalp, I guess

Dee Mac. @dxxmxc.bsky.social · 1d

This has to be altered/AI. Ain't NO way I look like THIS to people that tall. No wonder them people don't take me seriously. I don't look serious from this angle! 😭

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Ree @thebellamama.blacksky.app · 21h

Ohmahgawd! Stop!!
I'm embarrassed. I'm gonna make my husband make a video when he gets home and see if this is what it looks like. Yall got me self conscious as hell, right now. (I'm fully aware I'm as tall as a 6th grader but this angle ain't it!)

AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 1d

for some reason, it never occurred to me that i at 5'3 would actually look small to someone say, 6'3 - 6'6. this is actually absurd.

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Ree @thebellamama.blacksky.app · 1d

I was just thinking about him. Both parents in the same year. I really hope he has a good support system.

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tru @thetrudz.photo · 1d

What D’Angelo said Black Messiah means. It came out at the end of 2014 and it was so needed.

Article (Nolan Feeney; TIME) excerpt reads: “Black Messiah is a hell of a name for an album. It can be misunderstood. Many will think it's about religion. Some will jump to the conclusion that I'm calling myself a Black Messiah. For me, the title is about all of us. It's about the world. It's about an idea we can all aspire to. We should all aspire to be a Black Messiah.

It's about people rising up in Ferguson and in Egypt and in Occupy Wall Street and in every place where a community has had enough and decides to make change happen, D'Angelo writes in a statement about the album It's not about praising one charismatic leader but celebrating thousands of them. Not every song on this album is politically charged (though many are), but calling this album Black Messiah creates a landscape there these songs can live to the fullest. Black Messiah is not one man. It's a feeling that, collectively, we are all that leader.”

“D’Angelo’s First Album in 14 Years Is Finally Here, and It’s Surprisingly Timely” via TIME.

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Ree @thebellamama.blacksky.app · 1d

Oh no! Are you for real right now?!?!

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d

Musicians including Jill Scott and Tyler, the Creator, remembered D'Angelo as a 'genius' as tributes poured in.

‘The shining star of our family’: R&B singer D’Angelo passes away at age 51

Musicians including Jill Scott and Tyler, the Creator, remembered D'Angelo as a 'genius' as tributes poured in.

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Ree @thebellamama.blacksky.app · 1d

Definitely feel the lost of the real "celebrity". The word is tossed around too much. I've looked at red carpets and thought, "who are these people"?
I think this new crop is too enamored with fame to create the distance needed to be a STAR.

Ree @thebellamama.blacksky.app · 1d

She cracks me up. She has this *Dainty* series where she basically just hollers at us for being ashy and it is HILARIOUS. She can say a million words with just a look. It's so funny seeing her in the wild and off of YouTube.

Gaal Dornick @onthecountof3.bsky.social · May 8

Also, shout out to the short kings!!

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Ree @thebellamama.blacksky.app · 1d

This scares the shit out of me. I have 2 sons with autism and they are trusting. I've explained endlessly that the police aren't our friends and it means nothing. I would burn it all down if someone took my boys.

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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 2d

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD

He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Pell Grant Hill @j-z-zyj-l-s.bsky.social · 3d

Miss the old days of Diane Sawyer and Dan Rather looking at em lie and asking follow up questions to catch em said lie

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Ree @thebellamama.blacksky.app · 3d

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stephanie roberts (all lowercase) @ringtales.bsky.social · 4d

we're not powerless
(citizens not consumers) #Blacksky

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Positive Black Content @miiriya.com · 6d

I created an app where you can shop Black Owned Businesses on one app. It has a Mutual Aid section and so far it helped raise $150,000+ people struggling in the community. Reaching out to Blacksky to help spread this, this combo of helping Black Businesses, simultaneously giving back is amazing and-

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Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 4d

Belated birthday rememberance for songwriting genius.... Rod Temperton (October 9, 1949 – September 25, 2016) 💙🕊

He’s on the keyboard...

The late Johnnie Wilder, Jr. on lead vocals 💙🕊

Such a beautiful song....

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Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 5d

This classic episode of "The Cosby Show" aired 40 YEARS ago today.... #GenX was seated for it.

Rest easy, Malcolm-Jamal Warner 🕊

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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 5d

Black Americans:

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Ree @thebellamama.blacksky.app · 5d

I regularly say "Imma die in this country mfer" at the slightest inconvenience lol

Romantic Prisoner @sdotcarter.bsky.social · 5d

The black guy that swallowed the bug is goated. 😭😭😭

Candy✨ @labeautenoire3.bsky.social · 5d

News-reporter bloops is one of my favorite subcategories on the internet

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Ree @thebellamama.blacksky.app · 5d

I have not done 2, 3, 4, 6 (yet), 10, 11, 15, 17, 18, 19.
I plan to be a menace in my next life for being Pollyanna in this one. (The Keisha Knight Pullam Polly though!)

Kindra Cotton @kindracotton.com · 6d

Y'all haven't LIVED! 😏

GIVE YOURSELF T POINT FOR EACH THING YOU HAVEN'T DONE
1. Skipped school 11. Gone zip lining
2. Broken a bone 12. Been on TV
13. Been on a cruise
3. Fired a gun
14. Gotten a peircing
4. Done drugs
5. Been in a limo 15, Smoked
6. Gotten a tattoo 16. Met a celeb
7. Ridden a horse 17. Been skydiving
8. Sung karaoke 18. Hada1night stand
9. Gotten a ticket 19. Skinny dippec
10. Been arrested 20. Been drunk é

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Ree @thebellamama.blacksky.app · 6d

Lmaoooooooo "I be robbing these niggas"

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Ree @thebellamama.blacksky.app · 7d

Girl! She should have led with that!! I was praying hard for Dolly lol. I know a lot of people were. I bet she can walk on water now she's so prayed up 🤣

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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 7d

"Ballerina Aesha Ash wandering around inner city Rochester breaking the stereotypes about women of color and to inspire young kids."

its a picture of a ballerina teaching future young ballerinas!!!

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Josh 🐯 Hill @joshtigerhill.bsky.social · 7d

Allow me to state, that I cannot think of any American alive today who has done more good for good's sake, than Dolly Parton.

I would put Jimmy Carter up there with her, and that's the only other American, dead or alive, I can think of at that level right now (at least from the modern era.)

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Grem, of 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐏 🔜 MCAtlanta! @gremlin.world · 9d

I will never not repost this

(Sound on for maximum effect)

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