Hello! Welcome to COTL, a discussion place for BIPOC. Posted the first 3 Wednesdays of the month
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Prompt: How’s everyone doing since last week? Feel free to post your thoughts.
The turd sandwich that was last week didn’t end with the election results: sadly Tony Todd died, at the age of 69. I also forgot to mention in the last CotL (can you blame me, I was in shock) that Quincy Jones also died last weekend.
I wanted to highlight these phenomenal African American artists:
1Quincy Jones: https://the-avocado.org/2024/11/04/its-votin-time/#comment-6585032167
2Tony Todd: https://the-avocado.org/2024/11/09/the-wpt-finally-works-blue/#comment-6589221398
R.I.P to these legends.
2nd Prompt: Favourite works or performances by Quincy or Tony?
Next week I’ll be away on holiday. I was wondering if anyone would like to cover? Perhaps share there thoughts on the election? I can still schedule a normal blank thread regardless, but feel free to lemme know.
Hope y’all have a nice day 🙏🏽