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They say if you want to hide something from our people, put it in a book. The truth is hidden in plain sight. Scroll less, read Moor.🥸🥸🥸🥸🥸🥸🥸🥸🥸

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Came from seeing Sinners for the second time and Annie and Smoke had me in there crying smh. I just can’t get over them 😭

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It’s almost time to eat.

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Harlem Dance Academy

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Reparations & the Fight for True Independence

One of the most thought-provoking moments in my recent conversation with AJ was when we tackled the idea of reparations. More specifically, we questioned how reparations should be distributed and whether cash payments alone could ever truly repair the systemic damages inflicted on Black Americans.

I asked, "What would be the benefit of channeling the money through Black families to have a chance to live through the same institutions of white supremacy that got us here in the first place?" That question lingered in the air because it gets at the root of the problem—Black people in America have never been left alone to build freely, to develop generational wealth without systemic interference, to make our own choices on our own terms.

AJ reminded us that even when Black Americans had the chance to create financial independence, those opportunities were stripped away. He pointed to the Freedman’s Bank—an institution established to help formerly enslaved individuals build financial stability, only for that money to be taken from them when the government abandoned Reconstruction. We’ve seen this pattern over and over: when we establish self-sustaining economies and communities, they are dismantled, erased, or outright destroyed.

Reparations, at its core, isn’t just about financial compensation—it’s about repair. It’s about acknowledgment. It’s about ensuring that Black Americans are finally given the resources and the autonomy to build our communities without external forces dismantling them at every turn. But that repair has to come with full autonomy, not just a payout funneled back into systems that were designed to exclude us in the first place.

The historical injustices we’ve faced haven’t just been about deprivation—they’ve been about control. That’s why true reparations can’t simply be a check cut and sent out. It has to be tied to policies that empower Black communities to sustain themselves, whether through land grants, education initiatives, business development, or institutional reforms. Because if history has shown us anything, it’s that the moment Black Americans get too close to financial independence, the system finds a way to take it back. And that cycle has to end.

Reparations must mean more than money. It must mean sovereignty, protection, and a guarantee that what we build will never be taken from us again.

Watch the FULL CONVERSATION:

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DJ MUSTARD X Samuel L. Jackson

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Kendrick Lamar x Not Like Us (Super Bowl)

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Mary Fields (c. 1832 – December 5, 1914), also known as Stagecoach Mary and Black Mary, was an American mail carrier who was the first Black woman to be employed as a star route postwoman in the United States. Fields had the star route contract for the delivery of U.S. mail from Cascade, Montana, to Saint Peter's Mission. She drove the route for two four-year contracts, from 1895 to 1899 and from 1899 to 1903. Author Miantae Metcalf McConnell provided documentation discovered during her research about Mary Fields to the United States Postal Service Archives Historian in 2006. This enabled the USPS to establish Mary Fields' contribution as the first African-American female star route mail carrier in the United States