Jesmyn Ward @jesmimi Twitter profile

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Jesmyn Ward

@jesmimi

4 years

Thank you for your witness. Thank you for standing. Thank you for your love. I hear you. We here.

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3 years

“Even as we grieved, we grew.” Amanda Gorman is speaking a word. Look at her shine. 💜

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4 years

Even after Salvage the Bones won the NBA, my publishing company did not want to give me 100k for my next novel. My agent and I fought and fought before we wrestled our way to that number.

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4 years

The novel that earned me my first 100k advance? Sing, Unburied, Sing.

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4 years

I love y’all. Thank y’all for reading my work. Thank you for sitting with it, for engaging with it, for letting me tell you stories. I’m grateful.

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Jesmyn Ward

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4 years

It takes courage, conviction, and vulnerability to look critically at yourself, but many refuse to do so.They’d rather live in fantasy while the world burns and storms and people die, and they self-soothe with nostalgia-drunk dreams of an America that never existed for everyone.

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Jesmyn Ward

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4 years

I wrote Salvage the Bones without an advance. I wrote a complete manuscript and revised it multiple times before delivering it to my agent to sell. I was lucky because I created it while I had a writing fellowship.

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Jesmyn Ward

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6 years

So, um, I️ won. It was totally unexpected. I️ am amazed and so deeply grateful. Somewhere, Jojo is smiling. Somewhere, Joshua is smiling. Thank you.

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Jesmyn Ward

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6 years

I can’t even write anything articulate about Cindy Hyde Smith vomiting our her racist bullshit because I know her, recognize her willful ignorance, how insidious it is, understand it’s perniciousness, it’s self-proclaimed infability. Vote this racist, close-minded woman OUT.

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4 years

Who wants to look at oneself, honestly? Who wants to assess their flaws, their failings, their ugly history? Who wants to face it all and own it? Who wants to see their own knee’s indent in the neck of the Black person on the sidewalk? Not a majority of white voters.

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4 years

Day four without power in the aftermath of Hurricane Zeta. My ancestors were straight G’s because I’ve been washing dishes by boiling water on the stove, and it has exhausted me.

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4 years

They want to believe in this idealized, innocent, noble, and exceptional version of themselves & America so badly that they disavow the babies in cages, the over 200k dead, women and men of color dead in their beds and mid-jog and mid-walk, disavow it all, and vote for 45.

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6 years

Mr. Burton, please bring back Reading Rainbow and consider letting me read a children’s book for your show. I would do a fantastic job, and after, the seven year old in me would sob with joy.

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@nationalbook

6 years

"I’ll be standing here for literature until my very last breath." LeVar Burton, who inspired so many to become readers, is still speaking up for books.

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4 years

I’m in a good place now. I love my team. But I wanted to share those numbers to let folks know that it took a long time to get here, even with allies in the industry fighting on my behalf.

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5 years

Ha! They deleted it? But they posted this asinine, racist, gaslighting drivel.

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4 years

We have power folks. I’m hella thankful, and I’m praying to all the Ancestors that hurricanes leave us the hell alone for the rest of 2020.

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Jesmyn Ward

@jesmimi

4 years

So when I do interviews and tell people that I love my characters, that I tell the stories I do because I feel a responsibility to write about my people, to amplify the voices of those of us who have been erased or flattened, to complicate us, I ain’t lying.

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Jesmyn Ward

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4 years

I switched publishers before Sing, Unburied, Sing was published, so my agent was able to renegotiate the sale of the book. And while that new sale was a healthy increase on the old deal, it was still barely equal to some of my writer friends’ debut novel advances.

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7 years

Today, October 4, the announcement's out that I'm a finalist for the NBA. So grateful. Honored. Shocked.

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3 years

Oh good Lord! Stop making me cry, Ms. Gorman. Shit.

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7 years

I'm so honored, so grateful, so thankful for all your love and support. Thank y'all. (This is my inner Prince right now.)

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7 years

Happy Birthday, my solemn little baby. #SingUnburiedSing

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7 years

. @JoyceCarolOates Anytime you need someone to hold your hand and broaden your worldview, I'm here for you, Joyce. Bless your heart.

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4 years

I’ve known this my whole life because I grew up and currently live in a state and region where the people are really good at disavowing and telling themselves they are fundamentally blameless, morally superior, and exceptional. Mississippi is number one in that endeavor.

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5 years

I’m here. I’m fighting today. That’s all I got.

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5 years

It’s been nearly impossible for me to avoid posting expletive filled howls on Twitter lately. I need to meditate or something, because lately I just want to burn everything down.

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Jesmyn Ward

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4 years

They will disavow the women at the border who were forcibly sterilized, disavow the children separated from their parents, disavow it all so they can continue to believe the lies this man tells them about their blamelessness, their lack of culpability.

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Jesmyn Ward

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7 months

On October 24th, I’m going on tour for Let Us Descend, and I’m in conversation with some of my favorite writers and booksellers. Come through.

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Jesmyn Ward

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4 years

Because I avoid news, I had no idea Reeves had lifted the mask mandate. I will continue to wear my my mask. Someone in my family was diagnosed with COVID two weeks ago. It’s real.

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Jesmyn Ward

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5 years

But I refuse to be a Drake stan; why he is texting Bobbie from Stranger Things? What the hell is going on in the music industry? Surviving RKelly has me on high alert. I’m canceling everybody.

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Jesmyn Ward

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4 years

It’s been many years since Salvage the Bones was published, so it’s hard for me to remember exactly how much STB sold for. But I think it was around 20k?

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Jesmyn Ward

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4 years

I am proud to have signed this statement on the occasion of Juneteenth and this moment, this breath, this day, y’all, when we are all envisioning Black Freedom. Black Artists for Freedom

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5 years

Our Beloved!

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5 years

I just landed in New Orleans. Stunned silent by the temp. It’s too hot for this shit.

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Jesmyn Ward

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4 years

Salvage the Bones and Men We Reaped, my memoir, were a pair. Men We Reaped sold for a little bit more than Salvage.

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Jesmyn Ward

@jesmimi

6 years

My boo Angie! 💜💜💜

Angie Thomas

@angiecthomas

6 years

I finally met the queen @jesmimi and my day is made. Hell, my YEAR.

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Jesmyn Ward

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4 years

45 never holds them accountable, never makes them witness, and he tells them the story they want to hear. He immerses them in it. He renders it real for them, in the telling.

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Jesmyn Ward

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5 years

Fuck this Handmaid’s Tale shit.

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Jesmyn Ward

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6 years

Wish I could edit my posts. Damn autocorrect. Rest assured, my friends: I know the difference between its and it’s.

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Jesmyn Ward

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4 years

That said: I enjoy hot water and air conditioning and all modern conveniences, and I recognize they are luxuries, but I’m still pissed at the lackluster response to this hurricane. The response post-Katrina was better than this.

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Jesmyn Ward

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7 years

I neglect twitter for a day and come back to find my entire state maligned and accused of illiteracy.

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Jesmyn Ward

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4 years

One time, when I was a teenager, I went strawberry picking with my grandmother (who was in her fifties then), and my great grandmother (who was in her seventies, I think). My back started hurting after around 30 minutes of harvesting.

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Jesmyn Ward

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5 years

It is so hard for me to temper my anger every time this loathsome woman speaks and spews her racist bullshit. So hard, fam. I’m keeping it civil, but damn if the DeLislian doesn’t want to come out in me and read this broad for filth.

Let America Vote

@LetAmericaVote

5 years

Republican Mississippi senate candidate says “maybe we want to make it just a little bit more difficult” to vote. Disgraceful. Let’s defeat her at the ballot by electing Mike Espy.

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7 years

. @JoyceCarolOates This may be hard to believe, but Mississippi also has some of the best independent bookstores in the country.

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Jesmyn Ward

@jesmimi

6 years

Backwards Mississippi at its best. #TaxAllTheHybridCars #TaxAllTheElectricCarsEvenMore #AndYallWonderWhyYoungPeopleLeaveThisStateInDroves #BackwardsMississippiShit

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5 years

@RuhGEEnah I bring a book, and no one bothers me.

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Jesmyn Ward

@jesmimi

5 years

Read this entire thread, please.

Paola Mendoza

@paolamendoza

5 years

Last night I had a major epiphany about Bird Box. If you haven’t seen #BirdBox don’t read this. If you have please read this thread!

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. @JoyceCarolOates Many Mississippians read, Joyce. We read everything from Faulkner to Margaret Walker to @angiecthomas to @KieseLaymon .

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Jesmyn Ward

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3 years

Pretty girls DO like trap music: Saturday Night is the business. (Just came on my shuffle play and had to share.)

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Jesmyn Ward

@jesmimi

5 years

I say this often. It’s true.

BBC iPlayer

@BBCiPlayer

6 years

'You don't get over grief, you just learn to have it as part of your life.' This analogy of how we deal with bereavement is spot on. BBC Stories: Like Minds on BBC iPlayer:

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6 years

@_SJPeace_ @boldollie Yet again, our children are never children to people like this. They’re dangerous menaces. She calls him a child but she doesn’t believe he’s one.

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7 years

. @JoyceCarolOates Some Mississippians even (gasp!) WRITE. Shocking, I know! Check my previous tweets for references, Joyce.

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5 years

Of course they were going to vote for her. She could have waxed poetic about the glories of Satan himself, and as long as she inferred that she believes in the inferiority of Black people at the same damn time, they would have voted for her ass.

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Jesmyn Ward

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4 years

And to think: I didn’t have to haul the water (I filled my bathtubs), and I don’t have to wash my clothes on a washboard, and I don’t have to grow my own food (although I do keep a garden).

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5 years

Lol. I wasn’t talking about the show or the book. I was referring to the nightmare in Alabama right now concerning women’s reproductive health. Please see my previous tweet.

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Jesmyn Ward

@jesmimi

4 years

I just heard that y’all president told y’all to inject bleach into your body to kill coronavirus. Please please please do not do this. Please.

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Jesmyn Ward

@jesmimi

4 years

My great grandmother laughed at me and called me soft, and then she and my grandmother picked baskets and baskets of berries. They’d grown up in the fields, as their folks had always grown crops for food and livestock.

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Jesmyn Ward

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6 years

My people, my heart, my people. Riding through the country, Big Krit serenading, midnight. Y’all ask me why I moved home. This why.

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Jesmyn Ward

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5 years

As soon as they announced the run off, I knew Mississippi was going to disappoint y’all.

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Jesmyn Ward

@jesmimi

6 years

It was my pleasure. 💜 And thank you!

Jessica Rachid

@jessica_rachid

6 years

In Jamaica, I was lucky to have met @jesmimi who wrote this incredibly beautiful novel about the bonds of family and because it is #BookLoversDay I thought I would show some appreciation. I am in awe ❤️

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@clapifyoulikeme @watermelondriia

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3 years

I’m not a millennial, but I’m crying. I watched Blue’s Clues with my nephew, and we loved Steve.

Nick Jr.

@nickjr

3 years

So about that time Steve went off to college… #BluesClues25

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4 years

The Literary Quilt is so beautiful. I was honored to contribute. @KieseLaymon kicked us off with that hot fire!

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Jesmyn Ward

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7 years

. @JoyceCarolOates Mississippians read Natasha Tretheway, John Grisham, Greg Isles, Jack Pendarvis, Beth Ann Fennelly, and Tom Franklin, too.

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@jesmimi

5 years

I love NOLA.

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@NOLAnews

5 years

The protesters say they hope to show the country that New Orleans doesn’t support Trump.

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5 years

As if my fear of flying isn’t already terrible enough.

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4 years

There was actually a kid standing at the counter, shirtless, playing patty cake with the countertop. I didn’t touch anything and immediately left.

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5 years

Late as usual to Old Town Road, but been bumping it all day. So gleeful and subversive. @crissles and @KidFury put me on.

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Jesmyn Ward

@jesmimi

4 years

@JoeBiden @ThisOhioLife Can we please also listen to scientists about climate change?

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5 years

This isn’t about the TX family having “the wrong color skin.” This is about them not knowing jack shit about what it will be like for these Indigenous children to grow up in a world that has robbed them of everything: their language, their culture, their history, their agency.

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Jesmyn Ward

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4 years

I have to apologize to my students. They told me the new New Orleans International Airport was too generic. I disagreed, even though I’d never been there. I’m here now, and I was wrong. Sorry, y’all.

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Jesmyn Ward

@jesmimi

5 years

Take all my money! Make more movies with these characters! 3 is not enough! I need more, please! All the exclamation points!!!!!!!

Star Wars

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Every generation has a legend. Watch the brand-new teaser for Star Wars: #EpisodeIX .

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4 years

The lackluster response is specific to my area and my experience, of course: not New Orleans.

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@jesmimi

6 years

@zinziclemmons Thank you for speaking out. I’m sorry, and I’m sending love to you! 💜

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7 years

. @JoyceCarolOates Why? Prepare yourself for shocking news, Joyce.They thrive because Mississippians go to them to (deep breath!) buy books!

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@jesmimi

5 years

@GovernorKayIvey “Alabamans deeply held belief that every life is precious”—LMAO. I think Kay needs to check the definition of “every,” because I know plenty of Alabamans Kay and her ilk don’t give two fucks about.

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@jesmimi

7 years

. @JoyceCarolOates Want some receipts? @SquareBooks @LemuriaBooks @TurnrowBooks They're thriving community bookstores, Joyce.

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@jesmimi

7 years

Happy Prince Day. He would have been 59. I will always love the man who said "albums, like books and black lives, matter." Sob!

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@jesmimi

6 years

Prince Nothing Compares 2 U Listen - Hear Prince's Original Version of Nothing Compares 2 U

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@jesmimi

6 years

Read this.

AJ Williams✊🏾👩🏾‍💻

@ajwilliamsco

6 years

So today I’m at Lake Merritt and minding my Black ass business. As I finish my jog (Let’s be real, fast walk) I notice this white woman being really aggressive towards the Black Guy. I’m nosey so I stop to observe.

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THREAD

Ashton Pittman

@ashtonpittman

4 years

Supporters of the #MSFlag argue that its Confederate imagery honors soldiers—not slavery & white supremacy. But the week lawmakers adopted the flag in 1894, they refused to fund a home for ailing & homeless Confederate vets, citing other priorities. 👇🏻 1/

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2 years

Read this entire thread.

A. H.

@a_h_reaume

2 years

Roe v. Wade is based on the 'right to privacy.' If the majority opinion by SCOTUS suggests that the constitution does not protect the right to privacy... that affects a WHOLE lot of other decisions. Buckle up - this is the beginning of a lot of potential ugliness. A thread.

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4 years

When did Mississippi begin doing “things that make Mississippi a better place to live and do business?”

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@GanucheauAdam

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Reeves, continued: "We don't want to make decisions that do more harm than good because when we get through this, we want to continue to do things that make Mississippi a better place to live and do business."

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Thread

Debbie Reese (tribally enrolled, Nambé Pueblo)

@debreese

5 years

1) The Indigenous Peoples March, yesterday in DC, ended at the Lincoln Memorial. I wasn't able to attend but did watch livestreams, and videos, etc. A dreadful moment happened there, at the Lincoln Memorial.

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4 years

Day five.

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6 years

I’d resigned my fanatical love for N.E.R.D. to my youth, and then they decide to come out with a new album and every single bangs.

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@jesmimi

7 years

Contrary to what the city of Biloxi, MS recently insisted, this is not "Great Americans Day." We fought for this holiday. You can't erase it

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7 years

It's bittersweet. October 2 is my brother's death anniversary. October 3 is my own private anniversary, the day my dad told me he died.

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5 years

Thread

Jeremy Littau

@JeremyLittau

5 years

For those who aren’t quite sure why these media layoffs keep happening, or think “it’s the internet!” or “people don’t pay to subscribe,” there’s a lot more going on. Though that is part of that. Here’s a cliffs notes version - not exhaustive but it hits the highlights:

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Jesmyn Ward

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3 years

Announcing the 2021 African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund grant recipients! More than $3 mill was awarded to 40 sites & organizations that exemplify centuries of Black resilience, activism & achievement. #TellTheFullStory #AACHAF via @savingplaces

2021 African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund Grant Recipients | National Trust for Historic...

In 2021, the National Trust awarded grants totaling more than $3 million to 40 sites and organizations that exemplify centuries of African American resilience, activism, and achievement. Learn more...

savingplaces.org

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@jesmimi

6 years

Of course he does.

NBC News

@NBCNews

6 years

BREAKING: Pres. Trump rejects independent study that reports an estimated 2,975 people died in Puerto Rico in 5 months after Hurricane Maria; provides no evidence to discount the study; declares, without evidence, that the higher death toll is political ploy to make him look bad.

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@tnwhiskeywoman How am I just finding out about ThirstAidKit? I need to get my podcast-listening life together! The Tom Hardy episode was fire! And can you please write that romance novel??? Please?

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@jesmimi

7 years

. @JoyceCarolOates Also, that wasn't a complete list of all the great writers from Mississippi.

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Even after that woman’s comments about public hanging. Even after her endorsement of voter suppression. Even after.

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6 years

Lost my voice, feet feel broken, but I don’t have nan regret. #ThatsHowIFeel #KingSlimeDrizzyDamn #ScorpionTour

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5 years

Maze and Frankie Beverly are performing, child! Putting us younger folks to SHAME. And then lifting us up. #EssenceFest

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5 years

Simply Beautiful off that If Beale Street Could Talk Chopped and Screwed gave me chills. Chills! The Chopstars and Barry Jenkins took me to church! *hear that in a Pimp C voice

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Jesmyn Ward

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@decca0830 @prisonculture @emkayanders I try to use susurrus in every one of my books. My editor blocks that shit like Lebron every single time. 😂

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6 years

A thread!!!!!

Michael W. Twitty

@KosherSoul

6 years

I really want to make this a thread. Can we make this a thread? The land belt where #VoterSuppression is at its highest is one of the most remarkable situations in the history of politics and culture and nature. @stevesilberman pull up a seat.

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And then once my brain is working again, I want that book instead. That fantasy with a black girl protagonist that I want to write one day.

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