Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Books: The Future of Science is Civic, Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics & the Unsettled Past, Body & Soul, Technicolor
Daryl Hannah @dhlovelife.bsky.social Earth - Animal - Plant - Insect & Art 🎶 Lover & Defender
(still a bit uncertain about the people… )
🦋☮️🐾
Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social Mondays at 9pmET on MS NOW
MaddowBlog.com
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
@bevysmith.bsky.social @bevysmith.bsky.social 
Exavier Pope @exavierpope.bsky.social Lawyer | Host of #SuitUPNews | VP Finance @NABJSports | bylines: @Forbes @TheAthletic @ESPNLasVegas @AJENews | Fortune 500 Speaker | Yogapreneur | Vegan Chef
Blue Note Records @bluenoterecords.bsky.social The Finest In Jazz Since 1939
https://www.bluenote.com/
https://store.bluenote.com/
https://linktr.ee/bluenoterecords
The Washington Informer @washingtoninformer.com Top-leading African American woman-owned media company serving the Washington D.C. metro area since 1964. www.WashingtonInformer.com #BlackPressMatters #BeInformed
@mspackyetti1.bsky.social @mspackyetti1.bsky.social 
@highmuseumofart.bsky.social @highmuseumofart.bsky.social 
Ben & Jerry’s @benandjerrys.bsky.social Peace, Love, & Ice Cream.
www.benjerry.com
Art21 @art21org.bsky.social Independent, non-profit contemporary art organization and producers of an award-winning broadcast series. Posts by Hannah DeGarmo, Assoc. Dir. Comms
Art21.org to watch free, anytime.
W. Kamau Bell @wkamaubell.bsky.social Dad, but probably not your dad.
Discover Los Angeles @discoverla.bsky.social Los Angeles #NowPlaying #DiscoverLA
ContrabandCamp @contrabandcamp.bsky.social Smart.Bold.Brilliant.Black
PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social Immigrant. Citizen. Mouthy advocate. NYT bestseller of A RETURN TO COMMON SENSE. Official account💙
https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl
Alyia Gaskins @alyia4alx.bsky.social Mayor of the City of Alexandria, VA. Public health & Urban Planning. Changemaker. Wife and Mom to Zeke, Eliana and 🐶#Alyia4ALX
Tracie Thoms @traciethoms.bsky.social Just got here hoping for bluer skies ahead. Actor. Singer. Animal lover. Ally. Human. Proud supporter of
the 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ communities. Lover of my Black and Brown communities. Just trying to survive this shit show.
Carole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social The official BlueSky account for Carole King. Singer/Songwriter/Pianist/Author
& Environmentalist
caroleking.komi.io
Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social Civil rights lawyer; democracy warrior, dedicated to racial justice & equality. Fmr President & Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.
Dougomite @dougomite.bsky.social VR Game Designer /
Moss 2 + Batman Arkham Shadow + Glassbreakers
https://www.polyarcgames.com/
Lalah Hathaway @lalahhathaway.bsky.social Musician and supreme gadget girl. Opinions are my own.
www.lalahhathaway.com
Albumism @albumism.com A website & global community of passionate music fans dedicated to celebrating the world's love affairs with albums past, present and future | www.albumism.com
Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social My new special Night Thoughts is out NOW on Hulu.
linktr.ee/kumailnanjiani
Barbra Streisand @barbrastreisand.bsky.social BarbraStreisand.com
Don Lemon @donlemonofficial.bsky.social Truth Teller
Vanity Fair @vanityfair.com The official Bluesky of Vanity Fair
Stephen Colbert @stephencolbert.bsky.social Evie’s husband 
The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com Weeknights 11/10c on Comedy Central and Paramount+
NPR @npr.org This is NPR 🎙️
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
Get the paper delivered to your door: membership.theonion.com
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DeborahCox @deborahcox.bsky.social Artist. Entrepreneur.
Loves to sip Kazaisu wine 🥂
Tiffany D. Cross @tiffanydcross.bsky.social 📕 LOVE, ME: A Letter to Black Women in a Toxic Country, Career, and Relationship 📖 ORDER NOW! May 5, 2026 📕 Journalist. TV Host. Podcast Host. Author. Thinker. Dog Lover. Former: Native Land Pod & The Cross Connection. 🤎💞🤎
Joy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social Host of The Joy Reid Show, best-selling author, writer, documentary filmmaker, and happy warrior blerd 'bout town. Subscribe at thejoyreidshow.com and joyannreid.com!
Chuck D @chuckdpe.bsky.social RapARTivist GET OUR Culture APPS at RsTVapp.com RapCentralStation.net
lizzo @lizzobeeating.bsky.social THIS IS MY ONLY PAGE ON BLUESKY - ANYONE ELSE IS A FAKE PAGE!
Taylor Poindexter @engineeringbae.bsky.social Engineering Manager @ Spotify💚
Black Code Collective co-founder ✊🏾
Scuba Diver 🧜🏽♀️🤿
Whiskey expert — IG: womanwithwhiskey
Adventurer 🗺️
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social 7th/Newest book: Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings (June 24). Substack: honoreejeffers
Elon James White @elonjameswhite.com Daddy. Husband. Garden Ninja. Exhausted Negro.
Oh, and I write things, draw things, and tell jokes…about things.
But it’s mostly the whole “daddy” thing. 
Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social Journalist, writer, former member of the Six Heartbeats. Championship-level spades player. ContrabandCamp.com founder. Author of NY Times bestseller: Black AF History: The Unwhitewashed Story of America.
Ayanna Pressley @ayannapressley.bsky.social Your Congresswoman. Proudly representing the MA 7th. Here to break concrete ceilings & shake the table. Personal account. She/hers. #ChangeCantWait
J Wortham @jennydeluxe.bsky.social writer, podcaster, author
https://jennydeluxe.substack.com/
The Black List @theblcklst.bsky.social The Black List connects writers, filmmakers, and storytelling industry professionals around the globe.
https://campsite.bio/theblcklst
Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team Founder & Chief Innovation Officer @ Bluesky
Working on @attie.ai
🌱 🪴 🌳
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder of @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social.
Substack: http://robertreich.substack.com
Buy my new book: https://sites.prh.com/reich
Visit my website: https://rbreich.com/
Uju Anya @ujuanya.bsky.social Yup, same one from the bird app.
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app I wrote #TheDarkFantastic. Aspiring YA fantasy author; newbie YouTuber. Professor and grad program chair; Auntie PhD. 🔺1913, OES⭐️, Rattler🧡🐍, Wolverine💛💙. Detroit vs Everybody. Linktree: Ebonyteach.
Langston Blues @dradambanks.bsky.social Committed teacher, midnight believer, solo soul. Still a Slow Jam in a Hip Hop world. Here for all things Donny Hathaway, Deep Space Nine, Patrice Rushen and Futurama. And for general smart stuff, foolishness and irreverence.
Cleveland + Bay Area
Danielle Pinnock @bodycourage.bsky.social Parisian Bedbug by day, Mrs. Claus by night. Haunting #GhostsCBS as "Alberta" & radiating joy in Candy Cane Lane as "Kit.” | assistant@daniellepinnock.com
firefire100 @firefire100.bsky.social artist/msnbc/cnn/cbs/preacher's daughter/pimp's granddaughter/
@howardu/harlem's harlot/mad maven of minneapolis motown music/prince purveyor/eagles/okayplayer
Soledad Francis PhD @soledadfrancis.bsky.social Educated. Uppity. Bourgeois. Art History Professor at GSU. In love with Tennessee. Read about me in the novel SOLEDAD by Brandi L. Bates(Gallington Press, 2011)
https://linktr.ee/BrandiLBates
https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B005IYRQKK
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
Kristy Tillman @kristy.bsky.social Bored Technologist. Aspiring Writer. This is a lifestyle account.
https://www.thestraddlers.com/
1887 forever 🧡💚🐍
Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app Writer, hex throwing goon. Dainty, delicate, and deadly.
Questlove! @questlove.bsky.social I’m too tired to go into it good people 
Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social Mom, Refugee and Congresswoman for #MN05. Progressive Caucus Deputy Chair. Fighting for a more just world.✨ http://HC.com/IlhanOmar 
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host.
The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now.
https://sirenscallbook.com/
Jackée Harry @jackeeharry.bsky.social History teacher turned Emmy Award-winning Actress, Director, Philanthropist & Shady Boots.
Quinta Brunson @quintabrunson.bsky.social Hi.
Reagan Gomez @reagangomez.bsky.social You might know me, and If you think you saw me at the grocery store at 6:25 am, yes it was probably me😎 #TwitterRefugee
LeVar Burton @levarburton.bsky.social Kunta, Geordi, Reading Rainbow guy. Flies twice as high… #bydhttmwfi
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social Entrepreneur
Costplusdrugs.com
brittany packnett cunningham (she/her.) @mspackyetti.bsky.social the NY post once called me a “racial rabble rouser.” points for alliteration.
writer. talker. strategist. activist.
Black. loved. grateful. free.
subscribe to #UNDISTRACTED wherever pods are 🙏🏾.
deray @deray.bsky.social 
Roy Wood Jr- Ex Jedi @roywoodjr.bsky.social I do comedy on a stage. Sometimes on TV.
Debut book out NOW. Bury me in Alabama. FAMU Forever.
Jelani Cobb @jelaniya.bsky.social your new neighbor from your old neighborhood. dean. writer. left-hander & occasional photographer. known to frequent the new yorker and columbia journalism school. 
Bärí A. Williams, Esq. @bariawilliams.bsky.social Tech Esq. + Ops | DEI/Ethics advocate | Asker of “why” | Around the way etiquette lover | Oakland’s own #TownBusiness | Cal Alum | ex-Meta
Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social Storyteller. 
God-is Rivera @godisrivera.bsky.social Strategy lady, ad woman, CSO, Mama, wife,
Drew Dixon @deardrewdixon.bsky.social Artist | Activist | Mom
Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social Author of How the Word Is Passed, Above Ground, and Counting Descent. Writer, The Atlantic.
Craig Seymour, Ph.D. @craigspoplife.bsky.social Craig Seymour has been writing about Black music for nearly 30 years. He is the author of Luther: The Life and Longing of Luther Vandross and has published in such publications as The New York Times Magazine and the Washington Post.
Jamilah Lemieux @jamilahlemieux.bsky.social Writer (Vanity Fair, The Cut, Slate), editor, cultural critic and amateur stand-up.
Jamil Smith @jamilsmith.bsky.social Faculty lecturer, @berkeleyjournalism.bsky.social. Columnist, @us.theguardian.com.
Ann Powers @annkpowers.bsky.social I write about music things and things music at NPR and elsewhere. Latest book: TRAVELING: ON THE PATH OF JONI MITCHELL. Out now in affordable paperback!
Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social TV and film critic for the Chicago Tribune
https://www.chicagotribune.com/author/nina-metz/
Newsletter: Nina Watches Everything
https://buttondown.com/NinaWatchesEverything
Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
Danyel Smith @danyelsmith.bsky.social staff writer @theatlantic.com ✨ audio + film | CAA + Pande Literary
https://www.danyelsmithwriter.com/
https://shinebrighthq.substack.com/
Victoria Monét @handle.invalid Automated posts about new music and videos from Victoria Monét
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://music-social.com/@victoriamonet, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
king crissle @crissle.com MSEd. dog mom.
Mark Chappelle @markchappelle.bsky.social Writer. Ethnomusicologist. Professional introvert. Recovering overthinker. Defector from the petty wars that shell-shock love away. ✍🏾 linktr.ee/markchappelle
Blair LM Kelley, Ph.D. @profblmkelley.bsky.social /writer/historian/ph.d./award-winning author of Black Folk/president @natlhumanities /breast cancer survivor/The Oracle
Jay Smooth @jsmooth.bsky.social I be the personal computer information on rap
he/him
Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell @hottycouture.bsky.social Fashion Historian. NEH Public Scholar. MacDowell '26. Working on a biography of the best fashion designer you've never heard of. Also me: @wornonthisday.bsky.social
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Smithsonian Magazine @smithsonianmag.bsky.social Official feed for Smithsonian magazine. @ replies may be reprinted in the magazine. Legal: http://si.edu/Termsofuse
Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social The only real account on here for Tim Wise (well, at least the one who's an anti-racism educator, author, critical race theorist, and Senior Fellow at the African American Policy Forum).
Neale @abefroman-1.bsky.social Proud dad of 2 sons, music fiend, political junkie, runner, B-boy, grammar nerd, womanist, feminist, insomniac, Oxford comma user. #BlackInTech #NewYorkForever
Naima Cochrane @stillnaima.bsky.social Words. Ideas. Culture. Shenanigans.
#MusicSermon, CDI @ NYU, BMAC
naima@naimacochrane.com
John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social Author, pastor, activist, fighter for the common good.
Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
Brother Mouzones Bow Tie @jahsounds.bsky.social I said what I said. Gen-X all day // Retired b-boy // Black women are the answer // HU Bison // NYU // BK is in my heart but DC is in my blood. Formerly of Twitter.
Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social Pulitzer-winning investigative journo at New Yorker. Documentaries at HBO. Ex-diplomat. Bad lawyer. Disused phd. Tips: ronan_farrow@newyorker.com.
Danny Deraney @dannyderaney.bsky.social | Emmy Winner | Entertainment/Talent Publicist | DeraneyPR | Contributor on 60 Minutes,News Nation, NPR |#girldad | 🇱🇧 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 | Always Optimistic | Danny D from Twitter | 💍 |
https://linktr.ee/DannyDeraney
BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social Proud papa. Perpetually pissed.
#BlueWave2026, #Feminist.
Author of The Bigliest Loser and The Liddle'est President.
Check out my AMAZING Substack here: https://linktr.ee/mmpadellan
👉Sr. Advisor, @reallyamerican.bsky.social👈👀