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Mollie Mol @mollie.blacksky.app · 18/07/2026

Don’t sleep, Dirty Jers, mask up out there if able. #AQI

NORTH JERSEY - LITERALLY DIRTY JERSEY NOW

AQI 179 SATURDAY JULY 18

Very Unhealthy
Health effects will be immediately felt by sensitive groups and should avoid outdoor activity. Healthy individuals are likely to experience difficulty breathing and throat irritation; consider staying indoors and rescheduling outdoor activities.

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Mollie Mol @mollie.blacksky.app · 17/07/2026

Mississippi still burning. 🤚🏽 www.washingtoninformer.com/nolan-wells-...

Mississippi by Charles White, 1972, oil wash on board, 59 13/16 x 47 1/4 in.

An inverted compass is positioned around the central figure who is wrapped in a wool blanket, sitting still in Mississippi, a visual pun on the symbolism and significance of the north in Black History. Before the Civil War, the North was equated to freedom from slavery, and in later years it was associated with economic prosperity as many Black southerners migrated north for the promise of freedom and livelihood. This story is personal for White, as his mother moved from Mississippi to Chicago in 1914. The inversion of the poles symbolizes the significance of Mississippi, its barren commitment to racism and the centrality of the South in the civil rights movement.

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Mollie Mol @mollie.blacksky.app · 11/07/2026

Also don’t sleep: Kerry Washington, Kara Young, Dominique Fishback, Kecia Lewis & Danielle Pinnock (w Kai Heath, Denise Manning & Pavar Snipe as understudies) in a remarkable ensemble bringing Whoopi Goldberg’s trailblazing work back to the stage in a limited run www.broadway.com/shows/the-wh...

Kara Young - Kerry Washington - Dominique Fishback - Kecia Lewis - Danielle Pinnock.

What. Team Young Whoopi running it back in a limited run.

*In 1984, up-and-coming monologist Whoopi Goldberg premiered her one-woman show on Broadway, torching the rulebook of traditional solo performance in one of the most electrifying debuts of the era. Now, the trailblazing work returns—but for a new generation. Emmy® Award-winning producer, actor and filmmaker Kerry Washington (American Son, Scandal), and Tony® Award winner Kara Young (Purpose, Purlie Victorious) lead a remarkable ensemble of 5 women in bringing Goldberg’s unforgettable characters back to the stage, in this new production directed by Tony® Award nominee Whitney White. Funny, vivid, and deeply human, these nuanced portraits feel as fresh and irresistible today as they were over 40 years ago*

Show Dates
Previews: Jul 7, 2026 • Opening: Jul 13, 2026 • Closing: Aug 30, 2026

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Mollie Mol @mollie.blacksky.app · 06/07/2026

🧎🏽‍♀️‍➡️ philandocastile-peacegarden.org

Valerie Castile stands in front of a mural of her son, Philando Castile, on the fourth anniversary of his death (July 6, 2020) in St. Anthony, Minnesota. Photo by Evan Frost.

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Mollie Mol @mollie.blacksky.app · 04/07/2026

Here I go. Happy born day Bill Withers.

Bill Wither’s 1971 Just As I Am, recorded at Sunset Sound and Wally Heider Studio for Sussex Records, Produced by Booker T. Jones, distributed by Buddah Records, Bill Withers photographed by Norbert Jobst.

There is a handwritten note by Bill Withers printed on the back cover that says:

“It matters not where I come from in relation to the world, as long as the world and I arrive at a common point at a common time. I would like to thank Sussex records and Booker T. Jones for allowing me to present myself to the world to whoever is kind enough to listen:
Just As I Am
Bill Withers"

Bill Wither’s 1971 Just As I Am back cover, recorded at Sunset Sound and Wally Heider Studio for Sussex Records, Produced by Booker T. Jones, distributed by Buddah Records, Bill Withers photographed by Norbert Jobst.

Inscription says:

“It matters not where I come from in relation to the world, as long as the world and I arrive at a common point at a common time. I would like to thank Sussex records and Booker T. Jones for allowing me to present myself to the world to whoever is kind enough to listen:
Just As I Am
Bill Withers"

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Mollie Mol @mollie.blacksky.app · 02/07/2026

Imagine if every platform you’d ever been on had acted on harm, prioritized/humanized & transparented their backend to demonstrate this level of care for safety in the community. Go, JD. Go Blacksky. Amazing. Im geeking out on that graph. #Trust #Safety #Transparency #Community #SafeFromHarm

Blacksky Algorithms’ What’s Happening on My Feed? - Putting the Trust back in Trust and Safety - Moderation events, June 2026 by JD (by way of Blacksky)

Synthetic Media 13%
Anti-Black Harassment 38.7%
Anti-Black Rhetoric/White Supremacy 20.8%
Violence 1.3%
Adult Content 9.8%
Misogynoir 15.2%

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Mollie Mol @mollie.blacksky.app · 24/06/2026

Respect Martha S. Jones with this important free article and beautiful art (by Tim McDonagh).

Incredible illustrations by Tim McDonagh for Martha S. Jones’ NYT piece, The Enslaved Woman Who Sued for Freedom and Emancipated Herself. Freeman was the first enslaved woman to use the new State Constitution as the basis to sue for her freedom.

Elizabeth Freeman, one of Massachusetts’s 5,000 enslaved people, was among those who decided to take her chance at freedom. She was born enslaved in New York around 1744 and was later *inherited by a woman, Hannah*…

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Mollie Mol @mollie.blacksky.app · 21/06/2026

If you struggling, I see you n wish you ease If you celebrating, I see you n wish you joy If you both, I see you n wish us peace N if your mom had to double as your dad, I see you n wish her love 🧎🏽‍♀️‍➡️ youtu.be/kGeCeK85sUg?... 🧘🏾‍♀️

Original Jimmy Cliff’s The Harder They Come vinyl, Produced by Jimmy Cliff, Derrick Harriot & Leslie Kong, released summer of 1972 by Mango Records, featuring Scotty, Melodians, The Slickers, Desmond Dekker, and Maytals.

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Mollie Mol @mollie.blacksky.app · 21/06/2026

Mind holding you tight today, Dad. Heart reminding me when your hands were half my size n held me safe as you could. Body aching through the absence of it all while your words linger over every thought. So sit w me today, Daddy, let me hear our heartbeat…slow but steady under the weight of it all.

Jerome Ave, under the lion: In the Arms of My Father - 3 1/4” x 4 1/4”, Polaroid peel & roll.

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Mollie Mol @mollie.blacksky.app · 19/06/2026

Giving thanks for Kyle T. Mays, his important work, the history he spits n the power of laying law on voice in writing.

When We Are Kin: The History and Future of Afro-Indigenous Solidarity by KYLE T. MAYS, published by Haymarket Books, purchased from Rep.Club.

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Mollie Mol @mollie.blacksky.app · 16/06/2026

Happy June one-six seven one to all who celebrate.

Young King, flanked by Big and a baby Reggie Noble’s pissed telling us about it.

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Mollie Mol @mollie.blacksky.app · 14/06/2026

Started this drawing few weeks ago. (Pls don’t judge/be harsh, especially real artists, not making excuses but my hand is mad old n unpractised). Need to make space n time to finish it.

A sketch in pain. La Jeune Fille Avant Le Mort: A remix of Schubert n the State. (French speakers, pls don’t @ me on la Mort, I’m tryna word play all around Schubert x the State)

In the words of her family:

Daphy Michel, 31, of Charleroi was born June 19th, 1994 in Aquin, South Haiti to Rio and Santha (Pierre-Louis) Michel in Aquin, South Haiti.

Daphy was a person with a kind heart, who loved her family very much. Since she was a child, she showed great respect, courage, and love for everyone. She was always ready to help those who needed her help and her presence brought joy and happiness and light into the lives of all who knew her.

In addition to her parents, surviving to cherish Daphy’s memory; her sister Manoucheca Michel, her sister Carmelle Michel Merzi, her brother Jean Etienne Michel, her brother Rony Michel, her sister Selfisse Michel, her brother-in-law Agelin Merzi, and sister-in-law Langstroth Nestor Michel.

*Daphy Michel, 31, died March 2. She was found at a bus shelter in Pittsburgh. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office found her cause of death to be hypothermia and has just ruled the manner a homicide, “indicating the death was caused by the actions of another individual…*

Michel was a native of Haiti who was seeking asylum in the U.S. after arriving at the southern border in 2022, said Joseph Patrick Murphy, her family’s attorney. She was granted humanitarian parole based on urgent humanitarian need, but she did not live to see a hearing scheduled for two weeks after she died, he said.

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Mollie Mol @mollie.blacksky.app · 14/06/2026

Hard to describe what it was like live.

Giant Jazzmatazz street slap from album release campaign on Guru's Jazzmatazz, Vol. 2: The New Reality, released July 18, 1995 with The Source’s April 1994 cover featuring Guru and Premier in their GangStarr incarnation, photographed by Chi Modu / C ².

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Mollie Mol @mollie.blacksky.app · 10/06/2026

Good morning beautiful Blacksky.

Negro es Bello (Negro es Bello II) by Elizabeth Catlett (in A Black Revolutionary and All That It Implies), 1969/1970, color lithograph, 29 13/16 x 23 9/16in., National Gallery of Art.

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Mollie Mol @mollie.blacksky.app · 07/06/2026

Good morning you fine skyline. Good Sunday all. 🪶🧘🏾‍♀️

The Saint of Christopher Street (beautiful in au naturel) rests in a corner while holding her incense in one hand and leaning on a sign that reads *POWER TO THE PEOPLE* with the other.

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Mollie Mol @mollie.blacksky.app · 06/06/2026

Summer reading list is ❤️‍🔥: When We Are Kin by Kyle T. Mays x Haymarket x Rep.Club. Also, Chris Smalls' debut book, When the Revolution Comes: A Fight for the Future of the Working Class, is out n available from Rep.Club too.

When We Are Kin, The History and Future of Afro-Indigenous Solidarity by Kyle T. Mays (with artwork by Erin K. Robinson, cover design by Jamie Kerry and published by Haymarket Books) by way of Reparations Club (HTTPS://REP.CLUB).

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Mollie Mol @mollie.blacksky.app · 31/05/2026

Good morning by way of PPW’s @philaprint.bsky.social Sunday Conversations.

A patchwork of Gods featuring Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Octavia E. Butler, bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Assata Shakur and Alice Walker.

A white American birthday cake sits on white marble with blood-colored ribbons and an inscription that reads, *THE HORRORS PERSIST BUT SO DO I*

*You know who I am* - Nelson Mandela walks into Yankee Stadium in a crisp, satin Yankees bomber, June 21, 1990. 📷: Jeff Markowitz for The Associated Press

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Mollie Mol @mollie.blacksky.app · 25/05/2026

Love that. Probably bc I’m so old!! 🤣 Hope you like her. 💃🏽👏🏽

Chitown’s own House Goddess Dajaé‘s 1994 LP, Higher Power on Cajual Records features the artist (Karen Gordon) in a pixie cut, dressed in cobalt blue wearing oblong, gold hoops with black sunglasses and resting her chin on the back of her hands looking straight at the camera.

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Mollie Mol @mollie.blacksky.app · 19/05/2026

Mr. Turner n Martyr Loser King came through a few weeks ago. Mr. Wilson here now, not sure how long we got but Im not rushing. Then Im gonna get back in that boat and go stop at Boudreaux before heading home to the Catletts. Joe Conzo nem all gonna be there. June coming. #summerreadings

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