Marlon Weems
@therealjourneyman
Just speculatin’ about a hypothesis. Storyteller. Cinephile. Publisher of The Journeyman, a newsletter about money and politics, culture, and growing up Black in the South. Support independent journalism:
The fire hose of information is a lot, so here’s a rundown of the current state of play: We’re watching multiple stress points hit the global system at the same time. It’s a Black Swan event that could ultimately rival the pandemic.
Watch this young Arkansan react to seeing the 40-story Simmons Tower, the tallest building in the state. Now just imagine how folks, ESPECIALLY WHITE FOLKS, reacted to my Black ass having the audacity to own an investment bank that occupied HALF OF THE 35th FLOOR in that same building IN 1994
When you hear Viktor Orban got his ass kicked despite JD Vance trying to save him
I’m posting this every damn day till media pundits get their shit together
Is it me, or shouldn’t Democrats have dropped into a rapid response ad using this by now?
In 2003, an episode of American Experience on PBS featured a snippet from a segregationist propaganda film produced by the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission-in 1960. The goal was to portray state-sponsored apartheid in a positive light. It existed until 1973–the year I finished junior high school.
Tai Babalonia shares how Maybel Fairbanks transcended figure skating and helped launch her journey to becoming a two-time Olympian.
Listen to how smoothly AOC ties it all together: The Republican grifters. Palantir and the big tech companies. ICE criminality. THIS is the exact hymnal every single Democrat needs to be singing from.
Nothing to see here… Just Jared Kushner at the World Economic Forum trying to raise money so they can turn Gaza into the Riviera of the Middle East
This morning on Bloomberg Surveillance, Gutam Mukunda, a lecturer at Yale's School of Management, raised the question every media pundit should be asking. Subscribe for more: open.substack.com/pub/thejourn...
This famous photo from the second Muhammad Ali/Sonny Liston bout underscores how things are not always as they appear (think: Venezuela)
This was the conversation I had with @extremearturo.bsky.social regarding Venezuela THREE DAYS AGO. Few if any reporters have raised the issue of the outright criminality of overthrowing a sovereign government:
I love when the internet reminds me to update my eyeglass prescription
