this country will not be transformed without addressing policing, prisons, surveillance and militarism. Sorry. Cannot get around it. The carceral socialists may make incremental progress but they will ALWAYS come up against state violence.
Duquann Sweeney
@duquannsweeney.bsky.social
Photographer https://www.duquannsweeney.com/
In the age of filters and Ai, I come to appreciate the poor image more. Some image makers want to make their photos look richer* perfect* but in the words of Kendrick Lamar
Freddie Jackson, the RnB legend known for multiple hits, including “You Are My Lady,” has died. He was 70
Today is my birthday and I'm grateful for another year of life.
CBS News New York aired a spotlight on our Forging Ahead: Recent Acquisitions of Black Women Artists exhibition at the Schomburg Center. 9/24/26 – 3/27/27. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/vide... #ForgingAhead #SchomburgCenter
Black female artists take center stage at Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
CBS News New York Noëlle Lilley got a sneak peek at a brand new addition to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. It's the first time the Harlem-based center has opened an exhibit of thi...
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The gofundme for Nurse Chloe Freeman's legal defense. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Nurse charged with helping man in hospital escape from ICE custody
FBI accuses Chloe Freeman of federal misdemeanor in case of undocumented Mexican migrant arrested in Michigan
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@bepl.bsky.social · last wk.Here's a picture of me signing my first publish photography book at NY Art Book Fair. 9/27/2026 Photo cred: Kris Graves
No matter how many flyers you put up or how many trainings you do, there are still ppl who don't know what to do. In New Jersey, if you see 🧊 kidnapping your neighbors call (888) 347-3767. They just had to take someone they were trying to kidnap away in an ambulance in my neighborhood.
I hope all the folks that are withholding information about Nolan Wells' death be haunted for the rest of their lives.
Where I come from people live surrounded by the evidence of slavery everyday. It is not behind them. In Barbados or Tobago or many other Caribbean islands just running or walking through a field one can stumble over the detritus of slavery’s evidence. Abandoned, rotting but but not disappeared.
Thrilled to receive my copy of “Dignity, Beauty and Everything in Between” by Jersey City photographer Duquann Sweeney. Compelling images of the people of his home, The Hill. Beauty inside and out. @duquannsweeney.bsky.social
Hey hey hey @duquannsweeney.bsky.social photo book... Dignity, Beauty and Everything in Between by Duquann Sweeney Gorgeous 💚
I need a private fishing spot, something like Superman's Fortress of Solitude or a place like James Baldwin had when he moved to France.
This “game” on the White House website, a version of Snake where you play as a white man in a suit and you run around picking up identifiably black, Asian, and Latino men and putting them in orange jumpsuits, might be the most openly white supremacist thing I’ve ever seen the US government produce
Imagine a world where schools no longer have to perform active shooter drills.
I dislike people who make videos of someone going through a mental health crisis for "likes" on social media platforms.
This is such a horrific vision of what education is 😭
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoLinda McMahon on successful uses of AI in classrooms: "The first couple hours every day students really have on headphones, they're in front of their computers, they're getting their subjects fed to them...the beauty of that is the student almost has a one-on-one tutor...I have seen it work so well"
