Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏 @FarsightedGirl Twitter profile

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

3 years

So very thrilled to celebrate my official book publication day🎉🎈🥳 My second book chronicles the places and people that I love in my city! @MoonGuides @ChooseChicago #Chicago

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

4 years

@WeRuNYBhris_ I'm sorry that I'm always right. (Capricorn)

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

3 years

@mama_mia_09 @deeawndruh Blues is the foundation for all American popular music. It's the root of everything from gospel, to jazz, to rock and r&b. #knowyourhistory

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

2 years

@naima Undefeated Black history

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

6 years

So happy to see Octavia Butler for the Google Doodle: Octavia E. Butler's 71st Birthday! #GoogleDoodle

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

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@BookOfCinz But they left all the colonial mindsets and political blocks so they essentially never left.

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

1 year

@netflix When you plan a major live broadcast during a Mercury retrograde shadow 😬

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

2 years

@ThatEricAlper Macy Gray

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

10 months

Sooo excited to see my cover story on Chicago's own urban historian @6figga_dilla 🙌🏾 @ChooseChicago #Chicago #writerslife

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

2 years

@ThatEricAlper Buddy Guy, elderstatesman of Chicago blues and mentor to Jimi Hendrix.

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

2 years

@natalieymoore @BarackObama 🤣🤣Spoken like a South Sider🙌🏾

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

4 years

@Karnythia It is an abusive relationship.

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

4 years

34 Best Onam Recipes - Kerala Onam Sadya Recipes via @IMVoyager

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

2 years

@KailSovl Daughter's of the Dust, Moonlight and Queen Sugar definitely needs consideration.

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

1 year

@michaelharriot Nina didn't write Mississippi G-damn fir nothing. And I say this as a daughter of a Mississippian. Special mention goes to Florida and Louisiana.

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

3 years

Mucho lo siento to puertoriquenos, what was served to me was called asopao. I have learned that it doesn't typically look like that😬

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

10 years

My new book is published! #Chicago #music #books #photooftheday #Chigram #love http://t.co/36fNcfDHPy

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

3 years

A Black Lady Sketch Show is the most brilliant, hilarious and culturally sharp TV I've seen during the entire pandemic. ❤✨ @robinthede

A Black Lady Sketch Show

@BlackLadySketch

3 years

Welcome to the Brown Family Reunion. 🎶 #ABLSS

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

3 years

@ryanwisee @dancingofpens Led Zeppelin was who Willie Dixon had to sue for blatantly stealing his songs. After tears of battling, Willie won but it's a fight that continues today.

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

3 years

@stillnaima But did they ever really stop? COVID intensified entitlement from my perspective.

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

4 years

@TruSmilesJones @latimes Not just the beach, the whole island! Hilton Head is Gullah land.

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

7 years

@MysticxLipstick Their intensity is not for the weak. They are not easy to handle and can rub people the wrong way easily.

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

3 years

@6figga_dilla I want to learn about this!

Chicago History ™️

@Chicago_History

3 years

1957 - Employees of Star Detective Agency in front of their office at 6503 South Cottage Grove Ave. #ChicagoHistory ✔️

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

3 years

@naima Yaaas 🙌🏾 I am totally with you. I really believe Jarrett will rise to the occasion and the way his boys teared up at the wedding told me that he has a crew that cares about him and his happiness. That was not faked. They see his happiness and it's real❤

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

4 years

A tale of excellent customer service: When @bronze_bombSHEL raved about Nigerian luxury leather designers @winstonleather . I jumped to support them and ordered a tiny leather crossbody. A week passed and the creative director contacted me to let me know there was a problem.

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

2 years

@Chicago_History Nope. From Chicago means you grew up in a neighborhood within the city limits. It is not the same as living in nearby suburbs. You are from whatever suburb you grew up in, not Chicago.

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

6 years

This is huge! #afrolatina

OkayAfrica

@OkayAfrica

6 years

Costa Rica just elected its very first black female Vice President.

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

4 years

@VisitNewOrleans How are we going to decide on just one meal in the land of culinary excellence? Not possible.

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

6 years

So excited to see my Black Bucket List feature in @EBONYMag today! #writerslife #travel

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

4 years

I was so happy to shine a spotlight on @jacqueaye and her creation of a manga for Black girls @AdornedByChi !

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

2 years

And so the journey begins! Black chefs from all over the U.S. head to #Cameroon to learn traditional African cooking techniques. @roots2glory #rtgfoodie

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

6 years

@nhannahjones OOOH the stories I could tell about this entire topic. I leave in a suburb where this is the norm and it is a nightmare.

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

3 years

Breakfast in #Bermuda 🥑🥭🍍 @bermuda #foodie #gobermuda

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

3 years

@6figga_dilla You are not permitted to call yourself a Chicagoan if you've never been threatened with hell or glared at by the State Street pastor. It's just not acceptable.

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

4 years

On Dusable Bridge 🎉🤗 #Chicago

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

8 years

Alright now, Gary Clark jr. and Stax royalty William Bell doing classic #blues #GRAMMYs

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

5 years

@deadlinedd @KosherSoul The million questions is classic. They are trying to figure out how you got there, where you clearly don't belong. I don't even react anymore. I just look at them blankly.

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

4 years

So proud to see my city recognize #Zamunda 👑❤😁 @choosechicago @ZamundaRoyals #Africa #zamundaforever

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

2 years

@JAYVERSACE Maferefun Obatala 🕊

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

3 years

Happy Birthday to the brilliance that is @JoiGilliam 🐐🐐🐐

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

2 years

@ThatEricAlper

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

3 years

@6figga_dilla I'm a Rogers Park resident and there is so much history here, Dilla. What really interests me, especially on #IndigenousPeoplesDay , is Indian Boundary Park and the actual boundary line on Clark street where #indigenous people were pushed outside of the city. #checagou

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

7 years

@LiveFromKenya @Brian_C_Broadus @nunyayogi1234 @samswey @NPR @Barbados Barbados tourism actually did a cultural exchange trip between South Carolina & Bajan artists several years ago in Bridgetown. It was great

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

1 year

@naima @maurachanz I'm a trained DV advocate. It's totally textbook behavior. Abuse is all over this.

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

4 years

It's the #GreatConjuction and this is the super power I have manifested. I finished reading @KosherSoul 's essential book on #Black food, culture and history. Now I am ready. #superpowers #December21st #griotlife 📚

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

3 years

Taking advantage of these full Twitter photos to post the glory of my #Gullah bible at the request of @naima #depostledem #BlackHistory

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

2 years

@naima My definitive female R&B group song list: When Will I See You Again: 3 Degrees He's The Greatest Dancer: Sister Sledge Flowers: The Emotions Don't Let Go: En Vogue G.H.E.T.T.O.U.T: Changing Faces

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

3 years

@bronze_bombSHEL Exactly. House started in Chicago and by the 90s, all the house djs were living or touring in Europe. They brought the culture with them.

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

6 years

Just watched the eloquent August 28 film about the significance of the date in Black history by @ava at @smithsonian African American Museum. Walked to the next floor and saw Ava Duvernay herself, roaming the museum. #Blackhistoryeverwhere

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

2 years

@SonofBaldwin Truly the end of an era. I'm grateful for your words and wisdom. Protect your peace❤

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

7 years

Three Kings Day is coming @PuertoRicoPUR . #PuertoRico

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

3 years

@MissyElliott Jasmine Sullivan has always been an underrated musical genius.

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

2 years

🍁🍂 #Chicago

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

4 years

@ItsDanaWhite The same thing I'm doing now-- traveling and writing and documenting cultures. The only thing I would increase would be donating to charities and volunteering more.

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

4 years

@rgay Very little said verbally but volumes in body language 👀

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

5 years

@naima @StaceyJSpiehler Ok, can you say it louder for all my students clustered in the back and can I get permission to put this tweet on my syllabus 😐 #semesterstruggles

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

3 years

@KimberlyNFoster He actually really struggled a lot on many levels. Some were misled by the glamour he portrayed but he sacrificed his personal life and emotional well being for an industry that did not love him.

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

5 years

@daniecal Welp.I saw the film yesterday and it all makes sad, sad, sense.

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

3 years

@michaelharriot @craigspoplife Well that's an exciting and fun way to cap off Black History Month😃 Do we get a cookout celebration for passing the test or nah?

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

6 years

Dancing is an integral part of African culture and at Chale Wote Fest you see dancing everywhere 💃🏾 🇬🇭 @chalewotefest @ebonymagazine @theadinkragroup #ebonytravels #back2africa

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

4 years

Street foods are the quickest way to learn about a new culture! #FoodTravelChat

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

8 years

"A librarian will shoosh u but never let you be silenced They have been coming for libraries, now they R coming 4 the press." #writersresist

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

3 years

@KosherSoul So this was Gilligan's Restarand at Soho Grand Hotel? Ok, bet.

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

2 years

Hey from the Hellhole👋🏾 #Chicago

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

4 years

🙌🏾 Honored to write this story about the updated Green Book for Black travelers.

ZORA

@zoramag

4 years

“I created this book to bring back our history that’s been lost.” — Martinique Lewis

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

4 years

@Paula_Galloway @Karnythia Convinces you that you can't do better because you are so lucky to have them😭

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

7 years

The beauty of the main Jain temple in Ahmedabad is stunning. #India #travel @GujaratTourism

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

8 years

"For all the black and brown non gender conforming who don't see yourself, this is for you." #Moonlight #representationmatters #oscars

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

5 years

@Maryamhasnaa What galaxy do you inhabit and can you give me directions?

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

2 years

@agyasika @lastcallforaj @Phil_Lewis_ It's also a name once popular with old Black gentleman. Check church registries at Black Southern churches from the 40s, 50s, 60s, you will find that name.

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

3 years

Fully vaccinated 🙌🏾

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

10 months

@tenilleclarke1 Truth! I used 2 have a photo of the Door of No Return taped above my monitor 4 inspiration. I thought being so familiar with it would lessen the sadness. I cried thru the entire tour. Wasn't until I re-enter thru The Door of Return 4 descendants who return, that I could breathe.

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

4 years

@JAYVERSACE Rewatching Living Single on Hulu has soothed my soul.

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

4 years

The Bronze Bombshell lived a superstar life in spite of the Jim Crow racism that she endured in the U.S. Her movies and dance career are just a portion of the story.

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

4 years

There was a glitch in the design. So instead of the small pouch, he sent this mid-sized stunner. He didn't wait for me to question the arrival of my order, he informed me of the problem and found a solution. Never question #Naija excellence 🇳🇬 #BlackBusiness

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

2 years

@snowblvck_

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

3 years

@xoknzo @TheMeccanism It often is😩

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

7 years

This is the reality in the richest country in the world. The education system has devolved into a caste system based on money. #America

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

6 years

"As travel writers we can show that there's no such thing as shithole countries. " @paulinefrommer #SATWBarbados

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

3 years

@IWriteAllDay_ But of course! Denzel too.

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

2 years

@thomaspford @Chicago_History It's where you grew up, that's what shapes you. If you didn't grow up in Chicago, you're not from Chicago.

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

7 years

So much joy and color at #Navaratri @GujaratTourism #India #dance

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

2 years

St.Kitts historic Wingfield Estate, site of the new @oldroadrum company. @StKittsTourism @oldroadrum #stkitts

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

3 years

Ike and Tina Turner display at Stax Museum. @MemphisTravel #BlackMusicMonth

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

3 years

@vashon_photo And not a mask in sight😳

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

3 years

💙 #Chicago

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

4 years

@nhannahjones So grateful that the Crown Act was passed ✊🏾

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

8 years

Packing for the gorgeous natural landscape of @MyVancouver Rain forecast every day but I'm so excited to explore. #veryvancouver @HelloBC

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

3 years

@chaninicholas 😐I guess I should be happy because the shadow tried to take me out.

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

4 years

@bronze_bombSHEL Andre and Eunice Johson! With Fashion Fair shows, she really connected with fashion on many levels. I used to write the fashion column for the Chicago Sun-Times and she would call me when she wanted some publicity, lol. #blackfashionhistory

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

4 years

@SaltNPrEPPA 1) Salvador de Bahia, Brazil 2) Koloa, Kauai 3) Montreal 4)Lisbon 5) Dakar

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

5 years

Nothing like a South African sand castle! 🇿🇦 @SouthAfrica #Durban

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

3 years

@iSmashFizzle

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

6 years

A sand sculpture at Labadi Beach. #Ghana 🇬🇭 @ebonymagazine @theadinkragroup #ebonytravels #back2africa

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

3 years

A peek down a Christiansted street. #stcroix #Caribbean

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

3 years

Good afternoon from #Bermuda 🌊 @Bermuda

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

3 years

So excited to receive a fellowship to the 2021 National Critics Institute @ONeill_Center ! I'll be diving into an intensive week-long program of reading, writing, and discussing arts criticism. Can't wait to meet my distinguished cohort🥳 #writerslife

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

3 years

The stalagmites in Bermuda's crystal cave are some of the longest I've seen. @Bermuda

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

6 years

Ida B. Wells Drive is the first downtown #Chicago street named for a black woman or person of color: #BlackHistoryMonth

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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates 🍉📚🛩🌏

@FarsightedGirl

6 years

@anne_theriault @SarahEWatkins She also advocated to reintroduce slavery to her home country of Martinique. Her monument still stands in Fort de France with its head cut off and red paint dripping at the neck. #realhistory

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