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AAVE is not TikTok Slang 

AVE is not TikTok slang, not generational slang etc. It's AAVE that gets popularized by others in their communities and repeated to the point online of it being labeled as such. Point blank. Thanks for coming to my TedTalk 🙃

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Do these idiots know that it’s not going to prevent desperate folks to do it?

Idaho Passes Law To Restrict Interstate Travel For Abortion Care For Minors | HuffPost Latest News

Idaho just became the first state to implement an interstate travel restriction on abortion care since the Supreme Court repealed federal protections last year.

Gov. Brad Little (R) signed a law on Wednesday evening that bans minors from traveling out of state for abortions without parental consent. The law creates a new felony crime called “abortion trafficking,” which the legislation defines as an “adult who, with the intent to conceal an abortion from the parents or guardian of a pregnant, unemancipated minor, either procures an abortion … or obtains an abortion-inducing drug” for the minor

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60 Years Ago. Harlem Chapter of the Black Panther Party. “The Harlem Branch was one of the first to be formed outside California. Over the years, the Harlem Branch became the central offices for the entire state of New York.”

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Tenoch Huerta on why the idea that “hard work always reaps its rewards” isn’t true. Talent and hard work alone doesn’t guarantee entry into certain spaces (you’ll always be sidelined even when you’re included), but it will determine your longevity once you force your way in.

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Support Your Local Library!

Here’s 3 easy ways to get started: 1.) Get a library card (it’s free and usually just requires proof of residency!) 2.) Attend your local library’s events and programming. 3.) Advocate for increased support and funding. 

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We should all seek justice, justice for all.

#RemoveTheWall

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Tenoch is asked how he deals with everyone thirsting over him online

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Me literally right now since I'm sick..😣

Tiktok: abtreezy

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Josué Maychi on teaching Maya to the Wakanda Forever cast and a word play in one of Namor's lines.

The actor told us about a word play that only Maya speakers can understand. ---spoiler ahead--- “There is a phrase that Namor says that I had to translate that goes: 'Máansa'ab u nej miis tin wich' which in Spanish literally means 'They passed the cat's tail in front of my face with the hope of an alliance'. If you see cats, jaguars or panthers wag their tails when they go hunting because it is a way of hypnotizing their prey, so that image is what happened to Namor, that someone did that to him with their tail. I proposed it to the director and he loved it, because it refers to the panther that warned Namor, ” he said. Josué Maychi told us that in English the phrase was translated as: "I was blinded with the hope of an alliance", which in Maya metaphorically means that someone was deceived, since in Spanish or English it is not literal.

Compillation of Namor's lines in Yucatec Mayan In the interview for Cultura Colectiva, Josué Maychi, who plays the shaman in Black Panther : Wakanda Forever, spoke about his experience in the film in which at the same time, he collaborated as the Yucatec Maya coach for Mabel Cadena and Tenoch Huerta, every day for a period of seven months. “No one knew anything about Maya and my first approach with the actors was to ask them if they could pronounce the consonants and sounds that do not exist in Spanish, English or other languages, and I was very happy to discover that they could pronounce them” he commented.

How was the process of teaching Maya? “We had sessions by Zoom and then in Atlantla we had scheduled meetings because I needed to listen to them. The first thing I taught them was the sound of the words, because in Maya there are five types of vowels that have to do with time, and if if they prolongued (a vowel) it can mean one thing or another. I asked them to imagine their lines as a melody and also gave them recorded audios to listen to, read and even write. For example, Mabel created her own way of writing, she created her own writing to have a personal approach to the language, ” he said.

Do you remember any funny anecdote? “There is a phrase that we say in the film that is Líik’ik Talokan, (there's Wakanda Forever) which is said by the people of Wakanda. Once, Álex Livinalli wrote to me and asked what we could say for the world we were creating, about the new universe and in Maya. I thought about it and thought it might be that phrase, which means something like 'Long live Talokan' or 'Rise Talokan'. I proposed it to them, they proposed it to the production, they loved it and it was integrated into the script, ” he said. Finally, the actor pointed out that the representation of indigenous languages ​​IS very important to him and mentioned that there are Mayan people who have proudly written him messages of gratitude, since they understood what they saw on the big screen.

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This fight was BONKERS!

Gangs of London - Episode 1

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Gong Yoo for GQ Korea (October 2020)

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Bae.

Gong Yoo for GQ Korea October 2020 

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Hopes for 2020

I don’t have any resolutions for this year. Rather, my resolutions do not change much year to year. However, I have some things I hope to accomplish by the end of this new decade.

1. Maintain old and new friendships. I would love to reconnect with my old friends from high school that I have kept sporadically in contact with. The ones I have attended weddings I think would be a good start. So, to those friends reading this, if I am reaching out don’t shut me out. I really want to re-connect. Let’s chat!

2. Make money. I need my side hustles to be successful and I need to make more side hustles so I can afford to buy a house.

3. Go out more. I need to be more social. The homebody and introvert in me are very comfortable staying in and as someone who would like to get cuffed this summer, this is not a viable plan. I need to go out, network and meet people as much as I comfortably can. My original plan was to work for one date a week. But that’s too much work.

4. Make cardio a regular part of my workout. So, I work out. I fell in love with weights. My waist is slightly smaller, my legs are looking slim and strong. However, the apple body that I am does not allow me to lose weight easily in my stomach. Le sigh.  So I bought a Groupon pass to a gym where I can take group classes. And they are all cardio mostly! I want my body to be tight and looking right.

5. Get a closer relationship with God. Pray more often. Follow His teachings as much as possible.

That’s it! Renegades, what are your new year’s resolutions!

Hopes for 2020 was originally published on Renegade

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Year-End Review for 2019

My 2019 was shitty. No cap—as the young ones would say. Let’s recap!

1. I had to pay the IRS. Bruv. What brought me to Philly was a job in 2017 that I was ultimately let go from a year later. I survived on unemployment benefits and a retail job. That allowed me to barely feed myself.  Imagine eating rice and beans for weeks on end! Sometimes, I would be a renegade, a daredevil and would add shrimp from time to time. The struggle.

2. I did get a full-time temp job at this biotech company as I applied everywhere else. I stayed for ten months. I had asked my then supervisor to see if I could be hired within the company. He acquiesced to my request and promised to get back to me. After two weeks, I asked how it was going. He gave me the contact email of the company’s HR and my co-worker gave me a card to sign because he was leaving the company. I hate humans.

3. I lost a childhood friend. I couldn’t make it to her kid’s first birthday party and I was promptly cut off. And that was despite explaining why I couldn’t make it. Despite seeing the kid every weekend when I would head back home to Maryland. Eh…such is life. I figure, if you can’t express your anger at someone you considered a friend then was a friendship even there?

4. Two months after my temp contract ended, I did get a job thanks to a friend of mine. Yay! However, in between those months, I was relying on my credit card. Let’s just say, I am still paying it off. I am also eating beans and rice until that damn card is paid off. I hate owing money to America and I want to give its money back until I can borrow it again for other things…

5. Love life? What is that? I was entertaining someone and that did not work out. That path is dead and buried.

The END! In a few words, Renegades, how was y’all 2019?

Year-End Review for 2019 was originally published on Renegade