April Joyner |
Assorted, bite-size musings on entrepreneurship, entertainment, education, race, social justice, life, etc. |
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A New Model for Civil Rights: Obama at Morehouse — American Dreamers
Check out my new post on Medium (the cool new writing platform by the folks that brought you Twitter) about why I think Obama’s Morehouse address—and his speeches emphasizing personal responsibility for black Americans—are more than just mere finger-wagging.
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Notes"We enjoyed the fact that we were called to the folk festivals and we got to know Joan Baez, Dylan. We were singing strictly gospel, but then after we started hearing songs that they would sing, we saw that those songs were very fitting for us because they were singing the truth, and truth is gospel."
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I Got So Much Faith In This Little Dude Kendrick.
Been sitting on this one for too long. Figure Dre Day + a week before Kendrick’s two...
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Joining The Atlantic
I’m excited to announce that next month I’ll be joining The Atlantic with the somewhat intimidating title of “Entrepreneur in...
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Diverse Pages exists to promote and discover Main Characters of Color (MCoC) in the mainstream and independent...
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Free analytics for your personal Tumblr!
Good news, everyone! We’ve been hard at work keeping a promise we made when we first launched Union...
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It’s the 15th Anniversary of Sex and the City’s premiere and we still don’t understand Carrie Bradshaw’s accessory choices. Here’s to you, CB, the...
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The Borowitz Report: A Letter to Verizon Customers
1. Will I be charged extra for this service?
I’m happy to say that the answer is no. While...
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Ebony Man
My freshman year at Howard, my mother bought me a subscription to Ebony Man magazine. I had zero appreciation for it at...
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The guy who wrote this synopsis now writes jokes on George Takei’s Facebook page for $10 a pop. Progress!
I’ve always wondered...
