Timothy Welbeck
@timothywelbeck.bsky.social
Director, Center for Anti-Racism, Temple University | Civil Rights Attorney | Believer. Husband. Father. www.timothywelbeck.com
Here’s one from the archives. Back in 2016, I got to sit down with @1996Biggs to discuss the 20th anniversary of #ReasonableDoubt. A decade later, the Roc is still shining. #JayZ #JayZ30 #ReasonableDoubt youtu.be/n6WLDuguCUQ
Kareem "Biggs" Burke Speaks Legacy, Jay-Z "Reasonable Doubt" & Roc-A-Fella Journey
YouTube video by hypefresh.
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That’s her in cartoon on my shirt too 😂
Solomon@solomonrmissouri.com · 2mo agoY’all got wives???? Produce them 👁️👁️
Happy #OnaJudgeDay! On this day 230 years ago, she made the daring decision to free herself. May her courage remind us that freedom is possible; that freedom happens within community; and that freedom is a constant struggle. www.cnn.com/2026/02/27/p...
Some slavery-related displays returned to Philadelphia landmark | CNN Politics
Jake Tapper reports.
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“Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler” -Susana M. Morris “The Philadelphia Negro” -W.E.B. Du Bois “Africa Remembered: Narratives by West Africans from the Era and f the Slave Trade” -Philip D. Curtin
Ma$on@masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 3mo agoSince we're talking about literacy... Q: What book(s) are you currently reading?
The right to vote was purchased in blood. It angers me to no end that we have elders who fought for access to the ballot, secured the right, and can now see it stripped from them yet again in their lifetime. We live in shameful times.
“This is not the color-blindness of Martin Luther King Jr., but what the scholar Ian Haney López has called ‘reactionary colorblindness,’ the purpose of which is to maintain racial hierarchy through superficially neutral means.”
The Perversion of the Voting Rights Act
The Supreme Court rules that white people can disenfranchise Black voters for political advantage.
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I’m quoted in @justintinsley.bsky.social’s latest for @andscape.social.coop.ap.brid.gy. The pen in mighty. Y’all should check this out. Thanks for including me. andscape.com/features/jay...
JAŸ-Z is re-entering a different America - Andscape
In an era where suspicion outpaces evidence, fairly or not, JAY-Z’s empire has become a mirror for collective cynicism about power and ascent.
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Last week, I appeared on The Lead with Jake Tapper to discuss the dismantling of the slavery exhibit in The President’s House at Independence Mall in Philadelphia, the fight to preserve it, and it’s partial restoration. Grateful for the opportunity. #CNN #TheLeadCNN #America250 #BlackHistory
I’ve been saying for months this outcome was inevitable. www.dazeddigital.com/music/articl...
Meet the professor of the world’s first Kendrick Lamar course
In conversation with convenor Dr Timothy Wellbeck, we go inside the Kendrick Lamar university course on offer at Temple University this autumn, covering his discography, the Drake beef and the wider s...
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Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 10mo agoDrake’s federal defamation suit against Universal Music Group has been thrown out of court, TMZ reports
Many thanks to Mickey Factz for visiting my class on Kendrick Lamar at Temple University (“Kendrick Lamar and the Morale of the m.A.A.d city”). We discussed his career, the Blog Era, collaborating with Kendrick, and what makes Kendrick such a compelling writer. We even got a bar breakdown.
I need to do better about sharing on here. I was on the latest episode of @msolurin.bsky.social’s #OlayandFriends. Y’all should give it a listen. youtu.be/RzYEdIjr4xI?...
Drake & Young Thug Are SPIRALING | OLAY & FRIENDS
YouTube video by Olay & Friends
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“Sesame Street” and its sequel, “The Electric Company,” were, “with lapses, the most intelligent and important programs in television,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
The Invention of “Sesame Street”
Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.
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When ICE agents questioned a group of 11- to 14-year-olds who’d just finished batting practice, their coach, Youman Wilder, stepped in. “I’m willing to die to make sure these kids can get home,” he recounted afterward.
ICE Agents Invade a Manhattan Little League Field
Youman Wilder has coached local kids for twenty-one years—including four who have gone pro. When masked agents tried to interrogate his players, he told them, “You don’t have more rights than they do....
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There’s an old country adage that says you can boil a live frog in a pot on the stove so long as you gradually increase the temperature, because it will not perceive the inherent danger of the incrementally increasing heat. The water is now boiling. Let the reader understand.
This how I know black folk and white folk live in different realities. Because I coulda told you in my teens that some people in this country have so much hate in their hearts that they’d burn this country to the ground just to be rulers over ashes, if it meant people they don’t like get hurt more.
Within two hours of a Supreme Court ruling that limits the ability of federal courts to impose universal injunctions, lawyers for immigrant rights groups filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of their clients.
What is birthright citizenship and what happens after the Supreme Court ruling?
Within two hours of a Supreme Court ruling that limits the ability of federal courts to impose universal injunctions, lawyers for immigrant rights groups filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of their clients.
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@whyy.org recently published a story about my forthcoming Kendrick Lamar course. You may read it below. whyy.org/articles/tem....
Temple professor breaks down Kendrick Lamar’s legacy in new university course
The course will explore the rapper’s life, lyrics and impact through an Afrocentric lens, connecting hip-hop to broader themes of race, culture and urban America.
whyy.org
COMMENTARY: What’s the right way to mark Juneteenth? The newest U.S. holiday is confusing Americans @timothywelbeck.bsky.social writes for @theconversation.com lailluminator.com/2025/06/19/j...
What’s the right way to mark Juneteenth? The newest U.S. holiday is confusing Americans • Louisiana Illuminator
Four years after President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, Americans have wrestled with what to make of the holiday.
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What’s the right way to mark Juneteenth? The newest US holiday is confusing Americans @us.theconversation.com @timothywelbeck.bsky.social www.congress.gov/bill/117th-c...
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What is Juneteenth? What is the proper way to celebrate it? In many ways, the United States’ newest federal holiday has quickly become its most puzzling one. I talk about this in my latest article for @theconversation.com. theconversation.com/whats-the-ri...
In all seriousness, with all this talk about #HarrietTubman, I’d highly recommend Dr. Erica Armstrong Dunbar’s #SheCametoSlay. Y’all need that in your life.
Jesse Duquette@jesseduquette.bsky.social · last yr.This message brought to you by Harriet Tubman, an actual person who actually lived.
Black Women Plan & Prepare Period. And yeah we knew and told y’all!
truth tellers are punished most when they are early, not wrong.
There's an easy fix for this. Start a nationwide project using AI to identify the people snarling in the background of all those old civil rights photos. Problem solved.
I advise all my family, friends, and clients never to speak to law enforcement without an attorney present. The 5th and 6th Amendments exist for a reason. Do with that what you will.
Kanova@kanova.bsky.social · last yr.As a non-lawyer, things will go much more smoothly if you just answer the questions and give them your devices. If you've done nothing wrong, there's no crime to charge you with. If they want to fabricate charges, they'll do that regardless of what you say.
Happy #MothersDay Mom. I thank God for you, your love, your nurturing, and your patience. It shaped me into the man I am today.
