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floydwebb @floydwebb.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Police misconduct carries a cost far beyond the courtroom. As Chicago pays settlements and legal bills, public money is diverted from the schools, libraries, clinics, transportation and neighborhood services its residents depend upon. floydwebb.substack.com/p/the-price-...

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The Price of the Nightstick: The Bill Comes Due

Police Misconduct and Chicago’s Budget Woes

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floydwebb @floydwebb.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Billions flow into vertical cinema. yhe real innovation isn't the frame—it's the extraction underneath. I followed the money and found two completely separate worlds in the same rectangle. What was revealed? New essay up. open.substack.com/pub/floydweb... open.substack.com/pub/floydweb...

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FRAME WARS

Cinema, Behavioral Capture, and the Stories That No Longer Need Permission

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floydwebb @floydwebb.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

In 1955, Citizens’ Council urged Americans not to buy Black records. Seventy years later, politicians demanded investigations into Bad Bunny’s halftime show. Different music. Same mistake. Nreessay explores why culture always outruns those who try to control it. open.substack.com/pub/floydweb...

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Permission Is Granted to Re-Print This Circular

A 1955 warning against Black music, a 2026 halftime show, and the question of who gets to decide what moves the human spirit

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floydwebb @floydwebb.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Artificial intelligence is changing how we work, write, create, and remember. But every technological revolution has also changed something deeper: what it means to be human. My new essay, Remain Human, is now available on Substack. open.substack.com/pub/floydweb...

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REMAIN HUMAN

What a three-year-old, a cup of coffee, and a science-fiction admiral taught me about permission.

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floydwebb @floydwebb.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

See you in the other world. Sonny Rollins, Giant of the Jazz Saxophone, Is Dead at 95 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/a...

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Sonny Rollins, Giant of the Jazz Saxophone, Is Dead at 95

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floydwebb @floydwebb.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Join us today, 4pm CST for our Cannes Finale Live Report — a real-time debrief from both sides of the Atlantic as Floyd Webb connects from Chicago with Vagabond. What’s a Cultural Refugee?? Tune in live on Substack at 4pm CST and bring your questions. open.substack.com/live-stream/...

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LIVE SOON: 2026 Cannes Finale: Cultural Refugees

Starting May 23 at 5:10 PM EDT

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floydwebb @floydwebb.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

America is not “regressing.” It is reverting. My new essay examines anti-Blackness as civilizational infrastructure — from Reconstruction and Brazil to Omaha 360 and Chicago’s CARE program — and asks what societies choose to protect. open.substack.com/pub/floydweb...

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Anti-Blackness: Civilizational Emergency

Business As Usual: On Infrastructure, Framing and the Myth of American Regression

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floydwebb @floydwebb.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Check this out. jazz musician nicole Mitchell is up against data centers in her new home. open.substack.com/pub/floydweb...

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Data Centers Want Vance County's Water

A Jazz Visionary, a Family Farm, and the Battle for Vance County’s Water

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floydwebb @floydwebb.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Palantir’s 22-point manifesto callls for hard-power, a surveillance-driven future led by tech. We don’t live in a comic book. These aren’t supervillains—they’re people making decisions with real consequences. This is a Ten-Point Rebuttal open.substack.com/pub/floydweb...

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Palantir: Not Supervillains

A Ten-Point Rebuttal to the Palantir Manifesto

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floydwebb @floydwebb.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

What counts as philosophy? This essay moves between my mom’s life under Jim Crow and the work of Sophie Oluwole, who challenged the idea African thought is “folklore.” Across both, the same thing: thinking under pressure, tested in real life, across generations. open.substack.com/pub/floydweb...

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Philosophy, Sophie Oluwole, and My Mother

Hidden Intellectuals: On Survival, Recognition, and the Thinking We Refuse to Name

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floydwebb @floydwebb.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

When you can’t control the image, you eliminate the witness. From Robert Capa to Gaza, this traces how war photography shifted from protected to targeted—and why that shift is now showing up at home. floydwebb.substack.com/p/we-do-not-...

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We Do Not Put It Down

Photography, Power, and the War on Witness

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floydwebb @floydwebb.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

HOLLYWONT examines how Hollywood decides what lives, what dies, and what is never seen at all. open.substack.com/pub/floydweb...

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floydwebb @floydwebb.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

The absurd dream of martial law is belief legitimacy can be replaced by control, that you can remove foreign presidents, threaten strikes without authorization, control communication, deploy federal force in cities, and still govern rather than merely manage. floydwebb.substack.com/p/the-absurd...

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The Absurd Dream of Martial Law

Imperial Theater Abroad, Federalized Force at Home: The Synchronized Collapse of Civilian Rule

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floydwebb @floydwebb.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Dick Cheney may be gone, but the Homeland he built remains. This essay traces how the logic of endless security fused with neoliberal austerity to create an occupied America — and how, here in Chicago, a new architecture of care is rising from the ruins. open.substack.com/pub/floydweb...

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Dispatch from Occupied Territory: The Yellow Brick Road to Fascism

A farewell to Dick Cheney and the architecture of the Homeland State

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floydwebb @floydwebb.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

We honor presidents who owned slaves & generals who fought to preserve bondage, yet there’s no national holiday for John Brown—the man who gave his life to end it. Why does America fear to celebrate its most honest patriot? What does our silence about him reveal. open.substack.com/pub/floydweb...

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John Brown and the Moral Imagination of Rebellion

A Role Model for White Activism, America’s Most Honest Patriot

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floydwebb @floydwebb.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

In When the Uniform No Longer Protects You, I trace how agencies like ICE have created an “architecture of impunity” through undertraining, financial incentives, and political silence. “The badge doesn’t protect you from the law; it marks you for it.” open.substack.com/pub/floydweb...

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From ICE to the Goon Squad: When the Uniform No Longer Protects You and Lessons from the Fall of Impunity

America’s enforcement agencies aren’t inventing new corruption — they’re rebuilding an old architecture of impunity, one history has already condemned.

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floydwebb @floydwebb.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Communities being occupied is nothing new to African Americans. An irony that we have long endured — armed surveillance, economic containment, and state neglect — is now expanding to encompass poor white and brown communities, and, in a final irony, America itself. open.substack.com/pub/floydweb...

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floydwebb @floydwebb.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Barack Obama’s presidency was both a triumph of symbolism and a tragedy of structure — a moment when eloquence met empire, and the dream of transformation collided with the machinery of the state. open.substack.com/pub/floydweb...

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Obama and the Patriot Act

Representation Without Transformation: The Lesson of the Obama Era

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floydwebb @floydwebb.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Across time, grief has been turned into myth, and myth into division. From Berlin to Moscow to our own streets, martyrdom has been used to escalate violence. Let us resist history’s cycle now. floydwebb.substack.com/p/in-the-sha...

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“In the Shadow of Tragedy, We Must Choose Peace”

Charlie Kirk’s assassination must not be turned into martyrdom for division.

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floydwebb @floydwebb.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

What if the cowboy you grew up watching was never the whole story? From Black cowboys and Cimarrones to gauchos and vaqueros, the frontier was always multiracial and global. In my latest Substack, I reflect on Art T. Burton’s life’s work and my own memories. open.substack.com/pub/floydweb...

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The Ballad of Art T. Burton: Cowboys, Cimarrones, and the Stories We Never Heard

What if the iconic lone hero on horseback wasn’t white, wasn’t solitary, and wasn’t even uniquely American?

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floydwebb @floydwebb.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

From the West Side of Chicago to the politics of dispossession, this is a personal reflection on how Jim Crow, Zionism, and Apartheid share a blueprint—and why only mass movements have ever stopped them. open.substack.com/pub/floydweb...

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Zionism, Sandwiches, an Ivy Covered Gate and Golda Meir

It started in Chicago’s North Lawndale at a Church that was a Synagogue, a three minute walk from Golda Meir’s house

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floydwebb @floydwebb.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Juneteenth was granted after George Floyd’s murder—but still no law says cops who shoot unarmed people must face jury trials. It’s easier to sell us a holiday than to give us justice. Slave patrols became police. Don’t celebrate—organize.

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floydwebb @floydwebb.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

I’ll be doing a lecture in FILM aesthetics talking about the film Yeelen/Brightness by Souleymane Cisse April 1st online at 7pm Register here: uchicago.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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floydwebb @floydwebb.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Pin a Black, Mexican, Jamaican, Puerto Rican, Philippine, history post to your feeds EVERYDAY. It’s up to us to make our histories and contributions to this country LIVE. Today, we honor Lt. Col. Lee “Buddy” Archer, decorated member of the BLACK Tuskegee Airmen, Fugg mediocre white hire Hedgebot

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floydwebb @floydwebb.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Join us today at Connect Gallery, 1451 E 53rd St, in “Beautiful Downtown Hyde Park” at 3-6:30pm Black Culture, Soft Power, and the Machinery of Imperialism African American culture has long been one of the most powerful forces in shaping of the American image abroad.

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floydwebb @floydwebb.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Next time some of your young folk say stupid stuff like “we not our ancestors.” Show them this. Milwaukee 1967. We went toe toe, went to jail and some of us died. #resistance

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floydwebb @floydwebb.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

No matter what, I am leaving TikTok. Red Book is a lot more fun. Those Wiley orientals with their Yellow Peril have done it again! 91 盐栗（粉丝纯享版）发布了一篇小红书笔记，快来看吧！ 😆 gf89kd5Kx5BdeWx 😆 xhslink.com/a/Z3gisdL7ND...

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👋Last message to TikTok refugees - 小红书

3 亿人的生活经验，都在小红书

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floydwebb @floydwebb.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Our comrade. Cha Cha Jimenez has passed away today. José "Cha Cha" Jiménez (born August 8, 1948) is a political activist and the founder of the Young Lords Organization, a Chicago-based street gang that became a civil and human rights organization. Started in September 23, 1968. He’ll be missed.

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floydwebb @floydwebb.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

There’s a #DonOLDsaur coming to the White House, His extinction is imminent. His power is waning, his best absurd days behind him. The hyenas are gathering at the smell of his rotting decline, nipping at his shanks. His gangrenous herd will devour him as they foul the land.

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floydwebb @floydwebb.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Oh my! An illegal African immigrant and welfare queen with 12 children by three different women has just stolen a white job.

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floydwebb @floydwebb.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I nominate Yosemite Sam for head of national defense. It’s no more absurd than anyone else who’s been chosen. #dafookreygwaninamurkha

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floydwebb @floydwebb.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Does anybody know what time the UFO sky battle/invasion starts today. I’m anxious to find out if this is entertainment or conspiracy theories rather than fact. I admit, it is a great distraction. Will this be the day the earth got bass?

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floydwebb @floydwebb.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

On December 3, I am finally able to reveal my true identity. I have lived among you for many years and now the UFO onslaught begins. Only the most worthy among you will survive, and they are cats and their pet owners. #dec3 ##ufo alieninvasion

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floydwebb @floydwebb.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

We took control of the narrative about Yasuke, the 16th Century African Warrior who became Samurai. The internet insisted he be a slave, An elite mystic warrior of the Monomutapa Empire was far more likely to be a symbol of power and spiritual authority than a person enslaved. bit.ly/4gcXXmC

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‘Yasuke: Way of the Butterfly’ Tells the Origin Story of a Real-Life African Samurai

The story of the first Black samurai, who’s often wrongly portrayed as a slave, is told from an African perspective for the first time in the South African graphic novel ‘Yasuke: Way of the Butterfly....

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floydwebb @floydwebb.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

We’re creating original content for our streaming channel, Blacknuss.tv Developing feature film content, publishing alternative media. free admission, free food, films, fun and conversation. See us on ROKU, Blacknuss.tv Come join us Dec 1 at Colvin House, www.eventbrite.com/e/blacknusst...

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Blacknuss.tv presents Afro-Asia: Kiku's Legacy documentary & Yasuke

Join us for a special screening of "Kiku's Legacy Documentary Trailer" and "Yasuke" Motion Comic and Book at Blacknuss.tv's Afro-Asia event!

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floydwebb @floydwebb.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

There was a time I carried my Nikkormat camera everywhere, always with a 28mm lens, and a 200mm. It was all I needed. Probably from my first anti-police brutality protest. I got attacked. Stay mobile, light. I was 15. Chicago, uptown. By the time I was 20, I left the country. I had a skill.

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floydwebb @floydwebb.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

8 more images, remnants of my lost 52 year old portfolio. #fwphotos #photography #fwphotos

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floydwebb @floydwebb.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Someone asked me about my work as a photographer when I was a member of ASMP. A century ago. I travelled so much, major vagabond. Lost a lot of stuff pursuing the next thing. So I’ll share 10 of my oldest images. #photography #persitentvision #fwphotos

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