Imani B. @SheIsImaniB Twitter profile

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Imani B.

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Congo and Sudan don’t get enough engagement and shares as they need right now. Feel free to share this thread and add creators based in DRC and Sudan or those sharing what’s going on! 🇨🇩🇸🇩 #congo #sudan #SudanActionWeek #DRCongo

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Malaysia ate y’all up!

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I’m tired of this lil boy and I’m so glad Unctie cleared his ass!

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I interviewed for a Black women non-profit to head their communications. I was asked to create an entire mock social media campaign, a PR statement, & a Giving Tuesday campaign. They gave me 48-hours. I completed everything beautifully- no compensation. I am still unemployed.

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Y’all this job market is very nasty. Like people are struggling just to get a phone interview nasty

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Can we talk about how I met a complete stranger on TikTok and we decided to go see Bey in DC, WITH NO TICKETS? AND HOW WE HAD A TIME LAST NIGHT!!!

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@AriLennox I booked a one-way ticket to live in Cairo and his fine Black ass was out there living too. I met him 7 months into moving abroad. Talk about alignment.

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@dnvrsn And DJ Envy doubling down on the dumb saying she’s not Black she’s Puerto Rican sent me… cause do you know ANYTHING? Like anything at all 😵‍💫

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@juviethegreat Nolia Clap Back dat azz up Slow Motion Project B*tch Rodeo

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I feel like Made in Lagos really exceeded a bar in this industry. This album is perfection!

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Wizkid and Tems perform “Essence” on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.

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Y’all ever get some new shoes and act different? These @iamcardib Reebok’s are super cute. I have nowhere to go so I’ve been wearing them walking around in circles in the house 😂

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My husband & I were completely against putting Nasir in school. We were homeschool to the core. But we found a very unique school here in Mexico that combines multilingualism, Montessori, & Waldorf curriculum based learning. No grades. No homework. He just finished week 1. 🙏🏾💕

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@CNBC @CNBCMakeIt Black who?

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@Phil_Lewis_ I love that Black woman!!!

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@AppleMusic @wizkidayo Africa is a whole continent and @wizkidayo has a whole album about the city he’s from which is located in the country of *drum roll* NIGERIA. 🤷🏾‍♀️

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How to help women in 🍉 get feminine products. Please share 🙏🏾🫶🏾

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Y’all. I am screaming 😂😭😭 Stranger danger!

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My last piece for Essence is very special. I got the opportunity to really get to know @NaomiWWE @BiancaBelairWWE & @WWEEmberMoon They are 3 bad ass Black women doing their thing at @WWE This company truly values authenticity & diversity 👇🏾

Black Women Of The WWE Bring The Royal And The Rumble To Wrestling | Essence

Three WWE superstars talk body image, diversity among Black women and finding their truest selves through wrestling.

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@LoIra_BTW Same. It’s getting redundant and now trudging into elitist!

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@naomiosaka Rocco has 24-hours to respond!

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The face of a person that just received their Mexican residency 😭🙌🏾

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@WannasWorld Was that supposed to be a reveal? 😂

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Black women deserve joy, rest, and riches.

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Amanda Seales got less flack for trolling Tamir Rice’s mother… make that make sense 😒

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@speakmercedesj People can’t negotiate what they don’t know that they can ask for & clearly outside of needing to save money whatever entity you work for also has a problem with pay transparency! Why was the candidate not given a pay scale range? You lowballed her $45000 & call that encouraging?

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Hello world. I was FIRED today (at the end of the day on a Friday) as the first ever Travel Writer for Lifehacker. The reason...because I traveled! Take a look at this awesome thread from @gmgunion & any Editors I’m looking to write about it! REACH OUT! I have free time. ✊🏾

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Our statement regarding the termination GMG Union member Imani Bashir:

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Protect Megan Pete. Some folks seem to forget she is merely human because of her superstardom!

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Protect Megan Thee Stallion.

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@TheKalenAllen WOW. It’s the cancelling of Black creatives that no one wants to talk about for me! Thank you for sharing these with us Kalen 🙏🏾

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@IssaRae Listen, it's a big rich town!

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@austinxwill Busy running their mouths 😂

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@b0mbchell_ It’s giving

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@oranicuhh $2k is beneath you, no shade. Regular ass people make that for Fashion Nova. I’m insulted for you.

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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?

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Chris Brown reveals that Beyoncé is one artist he’s been wanting to collaborate with.

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I surprised my mom with a trip to New Orleans for Essence Fest cause she’s never been to either. And when we got to the room I had more surprises. She’ll be 60 July 27th! 🥳🎉

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I absolutely love this song. I love this album. I love this video!

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Burna Boy - It's Plenty [Official Music Video] via @YouTube !

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@IamGMJohnson First of all, because the way I would’ve added a few gems and glitter friend 😂 You’re the best! 😘

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@Phil_Lewis_ What year is this for? It’s giving Civil Wrong Era 🧐

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@WrittenByHanna I never knew that. I also don’t follow too much celebrity-dom but WHAT??

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Juneteenth IS Black Texan liberation and don’t have nothing to do with the rest of us, point blank. Lift up a Black Texan, support a Black Texan, but do not erase THEIR history on this day!

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today would be a great day to learn about Black texan history and support Black texan organizations. I am saying Texan with distinction because since becoming a federal holiday; everyone is erasing away the Texan component of the holiday. you can’t have juneteenth without us.

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Reflecting: Still proud of what I’m building. So many barriers but in less than a year, I’ve killed this shit! 🙌🏾🤩

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@MatthewACherry Meanwhile my 70-something year old mother in law drove 6.5 hours from Florida to Georgia so she could get toilet paper from us.

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3 years

Wizkid’s Made in Lagos should’ve been nominated for AOTY #GRAMMYs and I still want to fight that it was not!

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3 years

Today, we gave Nasir a mental health day from school. He was crying that his ankle hurt & yesterday he told me he didn’t like his teachers looking at him. As a parent, I can decipher that something is making him uncomfortable & so he will stay home with us. Listen 2 your babies.

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3 years

Imagine creating your brand and businesses around stealing the aesthetics and style of Black women without an actual talent outside of appropriation then telling us we lazy 😒😕 I’d say do better Kim but idc what she does if it’s not falling down a Black hole 🕳 🤷🏾‍♀️

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Imagine a billionaire saying that women in business to “get your ass up and work” when less than 2% of venture capital went to women in business last year. We are working. Every day. Without support. But… I digress.

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@DopePlainJane I will definitely keep that in mind. I just knew I had the position 😂

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2 years

How do we get them prosecuted?

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R.Kelly & Aaliyah’s family made an agreement that prevented them from pressing charges over illegal marriage. In exchange, R. Kelly sold the rights to his first 3 albums to her family. 👀

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2 years

Thank you O’Ryan and Omarion parents for understanding the assignment! #verzuz #verzuztv

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3 years

I’m wholeheartedly excited for Nia! She did what needed to be done & damn well! But I’m really tired of “first Black” anything in the 2020’s

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With #Candyman , Nia DaCosta becomes the first Black female director with a #1 film at the box office:

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@iamlexstylz It’s giving 🅿️athetic…

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2 years

This happened to me in Business class on an international flight. They don’t do this to white folks. They don’t ask these white influencers not to film. And they don’t grab people’s phones unless they look like us! I stand by that!

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Track star Sha'Carri Richardson was kicked off a AA flight for arguing with Flight Attendant and recorded the whole incident.

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@TheQueenSpeaks_ Dee Barnes.

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@ashleysimpo He better say the things 😂🙌🏾

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3 years

I’m celebrating today. I officially sold over 100 Expat Bags from my luggage line. 🎉 I created this line while living out of luggage & no home due to COVID. It’s been featured in H&M on 5th Avenue & my Ocean Blue bag has completely sold out 🙏🏾

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2 years

When you understand you don’t have to be an opportunist and just genuinely show up for someone else’s journey. Need more like these!

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Girl I’m just a girl like you …you finna go so really a breath of fresh air in the game ….we all can’t wait to see what’s next with you and your friends !!!

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@ParissAthena Not you want me to give up first class…

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@Phil_Lewis_ I think we’ve moved past social justice summits and I think it’s time to go into actionable items.

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3 years

Y’all so used to not seeing anybody defending Black women and it shows! Hope this ushers in a new era!!!

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2 years

#EidMubarak from the Bates clan 😏 #EidMubarak2022 #BlackoutEid

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3 years

Monique will not shake Black women on my watch. I’m not reposting the photo of the sister she is directing this post towards because it’s disgusting that she did this!

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4 years

One-on-One is headed to @Netflix today and in honor of that feel free to check out this piece I wrote for @glamourmag on @KylaPratt and how she has shown up in this business! @strongblacklead

Kyla Pratt Represented Black Girls Through Roles I Still Think About Today

From "The Proud Family" to "One on One," she doesn't just deserve her flowers: She deserves the entire garden.

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3 years

Imagine being so loud in a mother’s comments whose son was murdered and all the mother is/was calling for was accountability of “activists” profiting from her son’s death. But y’all mad she got on Greek letters on TV? Hell, I’m mad they didn’t kick her off the show 🤷🏾‍♀️

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4 years

Please continue to share and amplify my untimely and blatantly discriminatory firing this past Friday! I WILL NOT BE SILENT OR SILENCED!

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@kingbealestreet Right. Can’t even dance and her band don’t even be playing the instruments! Not worth it!

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Here are the people who matter MOST in this coronavirus conversation: Elderly Homeless Impoverished Medically Uninsured The rest of us are quite privileged! Some of these “important” conversations are full of shit. SHUT UP!

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Coldest winter vibes! ❄️

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@Dylawn4 @LilNasX And furthermore without having done any homework while simultaneously searching on Google during the interview...

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It’s officially our 35th birthday! I’ve been extremely blessed to share my birthday with my daddy 🥳🎉 12/19 ♐️

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Speaking of Black women. I started a series of lives with dope ass Black women I know. Check out the first THIS THURSDAY with my sis @BiancaBelairWWE 🥰 It’ll be on Instagram so pull up! #blackwomen #blackwomenmatter

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@Phil_Lewis_ Banks have a protocol. In the event she felt he was not who he said he was she should have said I cannot process this transaction & called in her Bank Manager. In addition, if he left no “give me the loot” note or brandished a weapon, WHERE TF DID ROBBERY CROSS HER MIND? 🤬

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@TheGrapevineTV My father. 30-years of Criminal Justice.

Raw Law: An Urban Guide to Criminal Justice|Paperback

The first book of legal advice for the hip hop generation, Covering areas ranging from how to secure the best public defender to what to do when driving DWB, this is a step-by-step guide to the...

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My latest for Essence Magazine! Thank you @NaomiWWE ♥️💪🏾

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‘I was inspired by the story of Bruce Leroy: he didn’t believe in himself but the glow, the power was in him. It reminded me of so many spaces where I was ‘the only’ & felt like I needed to adapt instead of just walking to the beat of my own drum’ @NaomiWWE #NGWSD2020

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@BasicBlaecGirl @MichelleHux Firstly, to even get a response from any editors there when you send them pitches is like trying make smoke signals in the middle of the ocean... and then this...

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@chrissisanders8 And they’ll never be that valuable again. Outside is open. 🤷🏾‍♀️

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3 years

I think the @TELFARGLOBAL made the cypher complete! #Gar çonsOnly

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3 years

If anyone wants to talk about how in 100 episodes of Red Table Talk many of them featured Jada in hijab-like scarf styles while having invited no Muslim women and specifically Black Muslim women to the table—I’m ready. And trust me, I’ve reached out!

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@b0mbchell_ See. I knew it was going to get out of hand 😭

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Let me start 2023 off by popping my shit! Yes that’s me featured in the Jan/Feb issue of Essence Magazine! 🥂

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@MikeishaDache I definitely wrote about that shit. I was fuming!

The Anti-Blackness of Showing Up Unprepared

Women of color journalists rarely get the opportunity to conduct such an interview, much less do the absolute least

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2 years

This cheer is for alla us and @iamcardib PUT THEM EGGS BACK 🗣️😭

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"Hold up wait a minute, y'all thought I was finished!" Excited for my new journey with @TravelNoire

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@samah_fadil Answer:

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@writelikeryan She was also the first woman in history to ever score a bucket in the Olympics! Not sure if Netflix still has her doc up but it’s called The Queen of Basketball 🙏🏾

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It’s #BlackoutEid around here! You know I come dressed in my best! #EidMubarak

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@rolandsmartin @itskerrii @nikepreclassic You're an absolute clown Roland and I mean that with all the disrespect and disgust! You should be way above this low-level ass tweet, yet here you are mocking this young lady and at 50+ you should have way more other shit going on in your life.

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I take my work very seriously & apart of my aesthetic as a writer is highlighting Blackness & all its glory. But I’m also a Muslim woman & that intersection deserves life given to it. If you didn’t know @_nadirahp before, get to know her! @TeenVogue

Meet Nadirah Pierre: Unapologetically Black, Muslim, and Funny

"I’m making an active decision to be on the frontlines."

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@KekePalmer Mom brain already. It gets worse from here sis 😂

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Y’all don’t go up enough for Regina. Auntie is 52!

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Name a celebrity whose face card has never declined

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“While many, brown-identifying women who are not ethnically “Black”, argued that they too should be able to celebrate themselves with the song and the hashtag, the lyrics did the work they failed to.” My latest for @TeenVogue #BrownSkinGirlChallenge ✊🏾

Beyoncé’s "Brown Skin Girl" Is Not for Every Brown-Skinned Girl

A little explainer for those who are misinformed.

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@SamKmuffin @IAlakija98 Nigeria is in West Africa.

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@ScottieBeam PERIODT!

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@WrittenByHanna Then beads finna slide smooth off 😂

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Black women, it’s Monday Motivation! Give yourself grace. Give yourself a break. Don’t overwork yourself to prove yourself! 💋

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@CNN So during 2 years of a global pandemic of something you CANNOT SEE but has caused many to die, you all thought it responsible to post about white celebrities who neglect to wash their children which we can safely conclude also their hands because they don’t “look” dirty…

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@IamGMJohnson TIED OF HA!

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Imagine creating your brand and businesses around stealing the aesthetics and style of Black women without an actual talent outside of appropriation then telling us we lazy 😒😕 I’d say do better Kim but idc what she does if it’s not falling down a Black hole 🕳 🤷🏾‍♀️

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I did no actual Essence events today after hearing about #BaldwinAndCo I decided to spend my entire afternoon at this amazing institution! I ate, bought $100 worth of books, got to see @bigfreedia and their product launch and the @EarnYourLeisure live podcast taping! 🫶🏾

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3 years

@HowardU Not much change over at HU huh?

Howard University Refused To Help Suicidal Rape Victims, Explosive Lawsuit Claims

One Howard University official allegedly told a student “you embarrassed your family” by going public about being raped.

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5 years

My dad was laid off yesterday morning from a very menial job he’d been working just to make ends meet! Please forward me any opportunities as he is a brilliant man!

Imani B.

@SheIsImaniB

5 years

I’m looking for consistent work for my father: He’s a former Criminal Trial Attorney w/ over 30 years in Criminal & Constitutional Law! He’s a 2x Author & 2x Howard U grad but cannot seem to find work in his respective field including teaching! He’s based in Maryland/DC! TIA

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