New wife for Kanye?
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āBut I donāt feel lucky, or unlucky,ā she added. āI feel nothing but joy and peace and pain and fear, all of it all at once so that it bleeds into itself and can only be described as emotion raw and pure and beautiful and perfect, and also fleeting.ā
Tirado replied there would be no funeral or need to travel. Instead, she encouraged people to āblast you some early 80s punk and raise a glass.ā
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This is the very definition of a wrongful death.
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I wish she had time to enjoy just one more show at the 7th St. Entry (to First Ave., Twin Cities peeps know what Iām on about).
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Circuit Judge MaryClaire Akers expressed shock after a grand jury indicted the couple in May, saying at a June 11 arraignment that āI donāt think Iāve ever seen an indictment like this in all of my time,ā according to WCHS-TV.
Akers said the indictment alleged the childrenās āuse as, basically, slaves."
@PsiPhiGrrrl, Black kidneys, Black childrenā¦
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For the record, this is a more common problem with adoption than people realize, sadly.
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Yael Valencia Aldanaās Pushcart Prize-winning poemā
Black Person Head Bob
I still count. How many of us are in here?
Five? Six? Two including me?
Why? Are we going to fight somebody?
Our backs against their gilded walls.
Have we made progress?
We made it yet?
If we stare too-too long, sometimes
we head bob.
I see you. You see me.
I see you, a woman on a Philadelphia street.
I stare for half a second too long.
You stare for a half second too long.
Your houndstooth jacket just so.
Your gray hair just so.
Like my mother would have done.
You see me. We do not speak.
We pass a silent Go on girl as we cross.
She is cleaning the University bathroom
in her blue uniform.
She sees me. I see her.
We head bob.
We do not speak.
Pass a silent Go on girl as we cross.
I ask my colleague, twenty-four to my forty-four,
Do yāall still count how many black people are in the room?
Do yāall still hold each otherās gaze half a second too long?
I see you. You see me.
I got you. You got me.
Or is that old woman stuff?
Old Black woman stuff I learned
from my mother?
I saw you, he says. I counted you, he says.
I got you. You got me.
For our ancestors below the sea
from our ancestors across the sea
I see you, you see me.
Yael Valencia Aldana is a Caribbean Afro-Latinx writer and poet. She is a descendant of the indigenous people of modern-day Colombia. Her work has appeared or is upcoming in Typehouse, South Florida Poetry Journal, Cutbank Journal, and Slag Glass City, among others . She teaches creative writing in South Florida, where she lives with her son and too many pets. Visit her website and follow her on Instagram and Twitter.
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Michael Harriot reviews the relationship between racism and the recent SCOTUS ruling on presidential immunity:
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Iāll say this again, the Mayor of Chicago is NOT wrong hereā¦ 
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For those who cannot see articles on TheGrio, here are the AP articles:
https://apnews.com/article/dvontaye-mitchell-milwaukee-hotel-death-d26057cf34270deec725e956b21d6ad2
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I donāt know why TheGrio is afraid of Europeā¦
Michael Harriot and Panama Jackson have readers over here, tooā¦
Last known survivors of Tulsa Race Massacre challenge Oklahoma high court decision
Archive is still struggling with this one, might not work:
https://archive.ph/wip/uptKz
Next try:
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Michael Harriotās review of Project 2025 and Agenda 47:
Archive version: I read the entire Project 2025. Here are the top 10 ways it would harm Black America
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Usually, Iām laughing through an article by this brilliant and funny writer. There are a few ones at the beginning, but Harriot knows that these blueprints for American fascism are not funny in the least.
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