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Lisa E. Davis

@led0260.bsky.social
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Entertainment lawyer; culture warrior;unapologetically Black; author of “Our Minds Were Always Free, A History of How Black Brilliance Was Exploited And The Fight to Retake Control,” coming from Simon & Schuster 5/19/26.

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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Remember the saying that politics is Hollywood for ugly people.
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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Congratulations! I remember how relieved I felt when I finished mine.
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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The U.S. men. The U.S. women have won the World Cup four times!!!
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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Where did this hate-addled bitch’s grandparents come from? America isn’t now, and has never been, a white country.
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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Any author against libraries is doing this for the wrong reasons!!! I want people to read my book because I think I have something important to say! Please go to the library and ask for it.
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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
My debut book, “Our Minds Were Always Free, A History of How Black Brilliance Was Exploited and The Fight to Retake Control” is out TODAY and available wherever books are sold. Here is a link to the starred Kirkus review: www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
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OUR MINDS WERE ALWAYS FREE | Kirkus Reviews
An entertainment lawyer takes on the topic of Black creators and intellectual property.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Wholeheartedly agree with you! Signed first time author who is thrilled that her book is being released in hardcover on May 19th.
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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
They won’t be leaving voluntarily, but we can’t simply concede defeat.
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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
So wonderful!
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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
That’s what they want.
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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Racism
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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
My debut book, “Our Minds Were Always Free,” which chronicles how Black brilliance built America and how the law determines who profits and gets credit comes out two weeks from TODAY. Pre-order here: bit.ly/lisaedavisbo...
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Our Minds Were Always Free: A History of How Black Brilliance Was Exploited—and the Fight to Retake Control
A History of How Black Brilliance Was Exploited—and the Fight to Retake Control
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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Thank you!
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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
It’s paywalled
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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Those people are racists making bad faith arguments.
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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Racism
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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Because they espouse the heretical slaveholders’ version of “Christianity.”
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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
There are plenty of leftists who are anti Black, sadly.
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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
As a first time author who wrote my nonfiction book’s first drafts in longhand on legal pads I can completely co-sign this.
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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
What is enraging is the “silence of our friends” in the face of all of this. No one is objecting to the racism except Black people. Everyone else just shrugs.
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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Fantastic! Congratulations! Nervously waiting on their review.
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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Nope. That is only valuing their “output,” not their value an asset class which is estimated to be the equivalent of $42 trillion in 2026 dollars.
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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
You don’t know history! Other groups were certainly oppressed and contributed, but the U.S. was already a global economic powerhouse by the mid-19th century based on land theft and chattel slavery.
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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Great meme! And yes, let’s hope Orban is shown the door by voters.
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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Agreed!
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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Thanks for posting this. I didn’t know about “Bitter Root,” but it sounds like revelatory work.
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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
I can relate! That is how I wrote my book.
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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
I still have mine- “Respect” by Aretha Franklin.
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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Those people are jerks. Ignore them and post about your books.
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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Same, girl, same.
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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Fantastic! Congratulations!
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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
It’s called “Our Minds Were Always Free.” It’s nonfiction that documents how the creativity and innovation of Black people powered America’s emergence as a global superpower as much as our free physical labor. Simon & Schuster will publish it on May 19th.
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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
I’m about 6 weeks away from that moment myself and I know I’m not ready.
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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
It needs to be ABOLISHED! It serves no lawful purpose.
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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I’m so sorry for the loss of your pup. It is so hard.
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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Yup. White supremacy is a cancer that keeps metastasizing.
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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
AMEN!!!! As a Black lawyer with a nodding knowledge of American History this makes me tear my hair out!
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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
All of Bruno Mars’ catalogue.
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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Obviously we don’t know each other— this is a social media platform. My point is that the much bigger, more significant problem is white people’s consistent support of racists.
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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
White women privilege racism over their gender. Black people voted overwhelmingly against him(92% of Black women and 85% of Black men). Ask yourself why white people overwhelmingly vote FOR him instead of questioning the small number of self hating Black people.
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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
We fight to abolish ICE
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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I have written an entire book about this entitled “Our Minds Were Always Free.” Simon &Schuster will publish it on May 19th, but it can be pre-ordered now. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Our-Mi...
simonandschuster.com
Our Minds Were Always Free
An exploration of how African American innovators and artists—whose impact and financial value in American music, movies, and TV is disproportionat...
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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Yes!!!!
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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Agreed! Danced to it so many nights in college.
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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Amazing! Congratulations!!
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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Always at least double what the recipe calls for.
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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Same
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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Congratulations!!!
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Lisa E. Davis @led0260.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
It’s unfortunately all about marketing it. I have a book coming out in 7 weeks and this is exactly what I worry about.
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