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Writer. Director. Educator.

Oakland, CA
Joined August 2012
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Filmmaking is a beautiful BEAST! I am FINALLY taking the leap as a #director. I am working with a group of incredibly talented creatives. Please view our crowdfunding video and #DonateOrShare May the odds be ever in our favor. Every gesture helps. 🙏📽️ vimeo.com/1014509574
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Happy New Year! What’s one of the films I’m looking most forward to seeing this year, you ask? @ava new film #origin based on Caste by @Isabelwilkerson I’m hoping it will motivate me to actually make it through this very important read. 🤞🏾🤞🏾🤞🏾🎬
New trailer for Ava DuVernay’s ‘ORIGIN’ starring Aunjanue Ellis. In theaters January 19.
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🙌🏿 #10x10Throwback: Our first volume continues with “It is enough to have known” by #CaveCanemFellow Shia Shabazz Smith (@ShiaSSmith) read by Natasha Oladokun (@NatashaOladokun). Many thanks to the 100 Cave Canem poets who contributed poems to this project!
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#ProtectTirienSteinbeck She wasn’t wrong. Imagine holding space for your students, for “free speech,” and managing the disrespect and insults of this judge. (May I see an administrator? If a white man had walked in, he wouldn’t have questioned it.) #shameonstanford
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“As long as you have incredible passion and focus and stop thinking about where you want to be and being in the moment with where you’re at … That’s where the beauty comes.” Indeed, @lesleydoestri #greatread
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Twitter can be hard for my brain. But I need to get back on this bicycle. Since we were last together, I launched I relaunched my website and I have two new blog posts. You are cordially invited to the party! Write on! #amwriting #screenwriter #blackscreenwriter #newblogpost
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‘The Woman King’ Debuts to $19 Million, Leads Box Office – Variety variety.com/2022/film/box-of…
Round 2 of the @nycmidnight #screenwriting #Competition down. Heartbreak kept me from #writing but this competition ALWAYS draws me back in. Time to forget about it until results are in on Jan 6. Congrats on getting it in and good luck to us all! #givingmelife
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COVID-19 surge a little over 2 weeks after a series of unmasked, super-spreader election events. Is anyone surprised? Praying for erybody! #stayathome #WearAMask
Wowzers!!! I’m sorry I missed SNL so I could have sat, mouth agape, during the show.
Whew !!! #BillBurr’s white women approval rating is going to plummet after this double dose of accuracy. I don’t know if #SaturdayNightLive was ready for all this
How is there NO ONE in is camp with a conscience?
The Trump rally will occur on Juneteenth Day, when many Americans commemorate the end of slavery, in a city that was home to an infamous 1921 massacre of Black people, one of the worst racial atrocities in the nation’s history. latimes.com/politics/story/2…