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I will never betray my heart. Activist. Organizer. Educator. . Author, On The Other Side of Freedom. IG: iamderay (deray@thisisthemovement.org)

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Joined April 2009
Born July 09

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    Oct 20

    honored to have been painted by IG @/krishnabalashenoi. ready. focused. let’s go.

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    2 hours ago

    As I told my eight-year-old son tonight about what had happened today, he looked at me utterly bewildered, and said, "But that doesn't make any sense at all." And then he asked me, with an innocence that shattered me, about whether Jews had ever been killed at prayer before. 1/4

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    Let’s be honest. Everyone that did hyperventilating coverage of this caravan, including plenty of mainstream media, aided and abetted not only Trump’s political agenda but his xenophobia and the xenophobic climate in which the deranged are whipped up.

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    Oct 26

    A Virgil Abloh-labeled escalator leading up to a Wework space sums up a lot the changes in Beijing since my last visit – at Wework

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    As of Monday, GAB is gone (for now)

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  6. 2 hours ago

    Barry Jenkins, Stephan James, Kiki Layne, and Regina King in conversation with Michele Norris.

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  7. 2 hours ago

    Stephan James spoke about ’s story being inspiration for him in preparation for .

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  8. 2 hours ago

    The cast is beautiful on camera and off camera. They have something special together and I’m proud to have met them and to have seen this film.

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  9. 2 hours ago

    It also left me re-energized in the work to end mass incarceration and police violence.

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  10. 2 hours ago

    Regina King is truly a legend. Kiki Layne’s performance is a gift to us all. And Stephan James’ performance made me ready to see him on the screen again, soon. is a must see.

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  11. 2 hours ago

    Barry Jenkins has mastered displaying the tenderness of blackness and black love on the screen.

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    6 hours ago

    This is Officer Stephen Barone with the Hartford, Connecticut PD telling a group of young men of color that he’s “a little trigger happy” & that he gets paid a “ton of money in overtime.” After an investigation he was fired. These are the kind of cops that America doesn’t need.

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  13. 4 hours ago

    ‘Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta’ to Feature Its First Gay Male Couple In Upcoming Season

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  14. 4 hours ago

    I’m in DC at the screening of and met Baldwin’s family. I’ll always remember this moment.

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  15. 6 hours ago

    In Massachusetts, nearly 5 percent of people over 11 abuse opioids

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    Yeah. Although, a couple of counterpoints: —The amount of House district polling is pretty normal/healthy. —It matters that many of the key Senate races are taking place in smaller states that aren't traditional presidential battlegrounds. Those states always get less polling.

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  18. 7 hours ago

    Carruth's son to attend Ravens-Panthers game

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  19. 7 hours ago

    Teenager mistakenly held in adult detention for nearly a year is redetained by ICE on his 18th birthday

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