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Culture Bearer & Creole Traiteur 🌱| Journalist ✍🏾| Ethnographer 🕵🏾| Music Artivist 🎤 This is a SAFE space for Melanated-Queer Folx 🌈✊🏾🪶. 📍: Atakapa-Ishak & Opelousa Nation aka South Louisiana 🌐: Quinn94.com
Creole is a vibrant cultural product of what the European colonizers can never erase 🙅🏾♂️.. We withstood the test of time through attempted genocides and ethnic cleansing ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾. Read more about my journey in #Martinique 🇲🇶. #Creole #BlackHistory #BlackStudies
Connecting With The Creole Diaspora in Martinique
Dive into Quinn's cultural and ethnographic journey in Martinique as they connect the Creole-Ancestral dots.
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I hate that we live in an "everything-is-recorded" era. So many sacred moments that da internet should probably never see are being shown for clicks, criticism, and a few dollars.
Across society, Black cis women, trans women, & feminine-presenting people continue to face discrimination. That isolation is imposed not only by the broader public but also within their own communities 💔❤️🩹. Read more via The #Black Wall Street Times 💜💚💛: theblackwallsttimes.com/2026/06/30/n...
New Orleans Black Pride Centers Femme Voices and Community Healing at 5th Annual Celebration
NOLA Black Pride returned for its 5th year, focusing on uplifting queer women and femme-presenting people through community and celebration.
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Today is a good day to stop being assholes to online strangers over a difference of opinion.
A gentle reminder that anyone asking for Black-owned media outlets to please support Urban One. We are actually fully Black-owned & woman-founded. urban1.com - click on the brands tab. We cover everything from entertainmen, sportz, tech, fashion and more. #blackowned #media
Urban One - Representing Black America
Urban 1 is the largest distributor of urban content in the country. For more than 35 years, Urban One has been the leading voice speaking to Black America.
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“We’re still under a colonial system,” said John Maigua, an activist with the Defenders Coalition in Nanyuki, Kenya. "Imagine building an Ebola facility in a country where there are no cases.” www.thexylom.com/post/kenya-e...
Kenya Has No Ebola. But Trump’s Planned Quarantine Facility Has Already Claimed Its First Life
The American government’s decision to build an Ebola quarantine facility over 700 miles away from the outbreak sparked protests, legal concerns, and the untimely death of a teenage boy.
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Because of #French colonialism, many Creoles of Color in #Louisiana & surrounding areas are infatuated with #France and dream of visiting, like some of our ancestors did during #colonial times 😒🙄. But, I think many forget or don’t care to experience our #Melanated ancestral lands. NOT ME THO ❤️🖤💚.
#Recall: MorningStar Farms announced a nationwide recall of two varieties of its plant-based products, Buffalo Chik’n Nuggets and Hot & Spicy Sausage Patties, after customers reported finding plastic pieces in the products.
MorningStar Farms Recalls Plant-Based Sausage Patties and Nuggets - Consumer Reports
Two MorningStar Farms plant-based products recalled for possible plastic contamination.
consumerreports.org
“A 27-year-old woman named Tonea Nicole Miller was found hanging from a tree in a Miami park on June 18, 2026, just one day before Juneteenth. Tonea was originally from Flint, Michigan, but traveled to Florida for the holiday weekend.” www.distractify.com/p/what-happe...
Why Is No One Talking About Tonea Miller Following Her Tragic Hanging Death?
Tonea Miller's body was found hanging from a tree at Gwen Cherry Park in Miami on Juneteenth weekend, but her death remains out of the news.
distractify.com
A bit from yesterday’s episode with Jarvis Givens, talking about the importance of Black Studies training for research in history and education. #blackstudiespodcast #blackstudies
Snippet from today’s great new episode with Zana Sanders #blackstudiespodcast #blackstudies
Black Kos, Week In Review - The Chemist Whose Work Was Stolen from Her www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
Black Kos, Week In Review - The Chemist Whose Work Was Stolen from Her
Many of the great contributions that Black people have made in the United States have often been overlooked. In other cases their work and scientific discoveries were stolen. That is the case of one…
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A local high school teacher has been charged with transporting child pornography on a flight from Chicago to Mexico. Read more: https://tinyurl.com/czd7zpt4
Creole is a vibrant cultural product of what the European colonizers can never erase 🙅🏾♂️.. We withstood the test of time through attempted genocides and ethnic cleansing ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾. Read more about my journey in #Martinique 🇲🇶. #Creole #BlackHistory #BlackStudies
Connecting With The Creole Diaspora in Martinique
Dive into Quinn's cultural and ethnographic journey in Martinique as they connect the Creole-Ancestral dots.
medium.com
Never forget that when that punk azz school resource officer Ben Fields violently dragged a young Black girl Shakara out of her desk and outside da classroom then took her & Niya, another student, and Raven Symoné’s response was, “Put your phones away!” #SchoolToPrisonPipeline
“Salary history is not a neutral, objective factor. Indeed, it often reflects the historical market forces which value the equal work of one’s sex [and race] over the other.” @nwlc.org 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 #payequity #salaryhistory
Asking for Salary History Perpetuates Pay Discrimination From Job to Job - National Women's Law Center
Employers’ requests for an applicant’s salary history in the hiring process, and reliance on that information to determine compensation, forces women and, especially women of color, to carry lower ear...
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I smell abolition, liberation, and revolutionary energy in da air 🇲🇶🥁🪘✊🏾. Blessedth Abolition Day (Abolition de l’Esclavage) to #Martinique‼️ “Due to their proximity, Africans and Creoles were heavily trafficked between the islands of Dominica 🇩🇲 , Guadeloupe 🇬🇵, & Martinique 🇲🇶.” ❤️🖤💚
Afro-Indigenous-centered spaces like the First & Last Stop Bar Lounge, a neighborhood bar in the Seventh Ward, have been safe havens for Black Masking Indians and community members but face erasure due to gentrification and racial capitalism. Fresh Press 📰🗞️📸: www.slipartmagazine.com/l-kasimu-har...
Join @theinvite.theinvite.us for The Invite documentary — starring Jamila Woods, Shea Coulee, and more --Juneteenth LIVE on @stream.place at 10 am PT / 12 pm CT / 1 pm ET. Followed by a conversation with @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team about Blacksky, moderation, and all things self-determination.
LGBTQIA+ Equal Pay Awareness Day highlights the ongoing wage disparities faced by LGBTQIA+ workers and the urgent need for fair, transparent, and equitable compensation for all. Despite progress, many LGBTQIA+ employees, especially transgender and nonbinary individuals and LGBTQIA+ people of...(1/3)
“Salary history is not a neutral, objective factor. Indeed, it often reflects the historical market forces which value the equal work of one’s sex [and race] over the other.” @nwlc.org 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 #payequity #salaryhistory
Asking for Salary History Perpetuates Pay Discrimination From Job to Job - National Women's Law Center
Employers’ requests for an applicant’s salary history in the hiring process, and reliance on that information to determine compensation, forces women and, especially women of color, to carry lower ear...
nwlc.org
My latest goes deep. "Not only do the Bacardi, Fanjul, Diaz Balart, and Gimenez families want to be compensated for what they allege is an injustice, but so do mob boss heirs...
Sociology and psychology are typically ahead of #Law when it comes to understanding accountability for one’s actions, especially those inflicted onto others 🤝🏾. Sociologists & psychologists will call a thing a thing while those in legal services may ignore such for years & years 😒.
I smell abolition, liberation, and revolutionary energy in da air 🇲🇶🥁🪘✊🏾. Blessedth Abolition Day (Abolition de l’Esclavage) to #Martinique‼️ “Due to their proximity, Africans and Creoles were heavily trafficked between the islands of Dominica 🇩🇲 , Guadeloupe 🇬🇵, & Martinique 🇲🇶.” ❤️🖤💚
Louisiana Opportunity 🌟: Policy and Research group is hiring a Junior Social Science Research Analyst for a hybrid/remote position 👏🏾✊🏾. Preferable Location: New Orleans/South Louisiana policyandresearch.bamboohr.com/careers/32
Junior Research Analyst
The Policy & Research Group (PRG) invites applications for a Junior Research Analyst who is passionate about improving opportunity and equity through social science research. The analyst will cont...
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People who genuinely love U will genuinely show it 💯.
“The US has provided no evidence that any of the vessels were involved in drug trafficking, and legal experts and rights groups say the attacks amount to extrajudicial killings as they apparently target civilians who do not pose any immediate threat.” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out
An Ecuadorian fishing crew describe their ordeal as victims of Trump’s purported war on ‘narcoterrorists’
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