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I write. I take photos. I used to break software. Built stuff that broke stuff at Xipiter. Former VC-backed founder & NYU Professor. https://t.co/ccOjYkn6tI

Jul 15, 2023, 5 tweets

Left: W.E.B. with his daughter and first wife.
Right: the Editorial Board of the "Encyclopedia of the Negro"

you gotta drink-in the photos, and then you see "the thing". the narrative-defying thing.

W.E.B. Dubois' second wife. I mean really drink it in and think about it what it means.

W.E.B. Du Bois accepting his LENIN Peace Prize

W.E.B. Dubois just chillin with Mao....as one does.

lots of these. they look like besties.

-So we got Marcus Garvey chillin with Ho Chi Minh in Harlem
-Stanley Levison speechwriter for MLK was Treasurer for Communist Party of America.
- Abel Meeropol ghostwriting hit Black songs.
- the Rosenbergs and harlem renaissance, etc

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