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MEET THE 3PT COMPETITION CONTESTANTS PT. 1🏀 SLOTS ARE STILL OPEN, CLAIM YOUR SPOT NOW‼️ Think you’ve got the best jumper in Jersey? 🏀 It’s time to prove it. Join us at the NJGP 3-Point Contest during the 2026 New Jersey Greek Picnic and compete for bragging rights, prizes, and the title of NJGP 3-Point Champion👑 From the picnic, to community service, and everything in between, gather your friends, line siblings, neos, and prophytes for a 1-of-1 weekend experience. 🔥 🎯 16 Shooters. 2 Brackets. 1 Champion. 🎟️ Registration is limited! Secure your spot today by clicking the link in our bio. Tickets for all weekend tickets available in our bio. #NJGP2026 #THISISJERSEY
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me & mine 🤞🏽
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Ladies & Gentlemen, allow us to introduce to you the FIRST New Member Class of the Upsilon Mu Sigma Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. These brothers have a strong commitment to doing the work of Sigma and we can’t wait for the world to see! Make sure you come to our Jazz Brunch on 6/27/26 to meet them! The ticket link is in our bio! CONGRATULATIONS, SPRING 2026! 1. Bro. Rashaan Woods 2. Bro. Carlos Duncanson 3. Bro. Essien Epps 4. Bro. Dr. Duane Reid #Spring2026 #PhiBetaSigma #GOMAB #MiSoSigmas #JerseySigmas
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New Member Spotlight! Allow us to introduce to you, Bro. Essien Epps…The Legacy! Bro. Epps is a graduate of John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He is currently a Physical Education and Technology teacher at Sacred Heart School in Jersey City, NJ where he also serves as the Coordinator of the Afterschool Program! Essien is the definition of a family man…joining the legacy set forth by his father, Bro. Greg Epps, by becoming a man of Sigma! Bro. Epps is the newest member of the Blue & White World in his family, but, through his work in the community, has always exemplified the high ideals of Brotherhood, Scholarship and Service. We are excited to have Bro. Epps as the third new member of the Upsilon Mu Sigma Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. Ladies & Gentlemen…Bro. Essien R. Epps! #Spring2026 #PhiBetaSigma #GOMAB #MiSoSigmas #JerseySigmas
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The Upsilon Mu Sigma Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. PROUDLY welcomes its Spring 2026 New Member Class! This is a historic moment, as these gentlemen are the FIRST New Member Class in our chapter’s history! These brothers are ready to do the work of Sigma and further the mission of the fraternity through our chapter! I present to you: 1. Bro. Rashaan Woods 2. Bro. Carlos Duncanson 3. Bro. Essien Epps 4. Bro. Dr. Duane Reid CONGRATS BROTHERS AND WELCOME TO THE FOLD! #MiSoSigmas #UpsilonMuSigma #Spring2026 #PhiBetaSigma #GOMAB
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We wanted to bid farewell to one of the best people to ever be part of our Bloodhound Family. Today was the first practice in over 10 years without Coach Wade Kornegay as a member of our John Jay Basketball Staff. We all love him and wish him and his family the best as they begin their journey down in Georgia! Love ya Coach Wade, thanks for all the wonderful memories! #GoBloodhounds #BlueCollar
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🌟 Celebrating Our Amazing Program Staff! 🎉 A big shoutout to our incredible program staff who work tirelessly to bring Active Plus programs to youth all around the city! From leading health and fitness sessions to organizing special events, they go above and beyond to make a positive impact on our community. We are so grateful for their dedication and hard work. Here's to our amazing team! 🙌 #ActivePlus #TeamAppreciation #MakingADifference 🌟 #SpringSocial #StaffParty
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Coach Wright, we will certainly miss you in the DogHouse next year! Thanks for always taking the time to make our Bloodhounds feel special. Congrats on an amazing career. #BlueCollar
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Awards winners for Week #1 The #BlueCollar Hard Hat: Angel Rivera The Shooters Shoot Belt: Bleron Lata School’s Leading Scorer so you’re immortalized on the wall: Essien Epps
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“Those who play rarely become brittle in the face of stress or lose the healing capacity for humor.” -Stuart Brown, MD Black folx have been busy playing, more specifically playing the dozens since the days of slavery. Playing the dozens which might include “yo mama” jokes or just lobbing insults to be funny were a mechanism of survival on plantations. Playing the dozens or “snaps” or “wolfing”, etc. was used to build up a sense of wit, creativity, and psychological protection against the ills and evils happening on the plantation. Playing the dozens has remained part of Black culture ever since. Teasing each other and telling jokes is a form of play and a way to feel united with other Black folx, but also a way of staying well. All that said, in 2018, the release year of The Black Panther, we Black folx were feeling all sorts of big, bold, and wide emotions. I know I certainly was. Just after the release of the movie Matthew went on vacation with me and my family for a wedding. And we, along with my parents and a few of my cousins all stayed in one house. One house! Well, one day Matthew was getting on my damn nerves. I needed to change the situation and feel light again, so as he walked by me I shouted out, “COLONIZER!” My family members and Matthew all found themselves doubled over laughing. That’s it. There’s no more to the story. I won that round of playing the dozens with one word... Ever since Matthew has been welcomed into the family to be part of the incessant joke telling and teasing. 🖤🤎🤍 @mistermilogreen
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“Black women are expected to use our anger only in the service of other people’s salvation or learning..” - Audre Lorde . . . All these questions about Blackness. From Kamala Harris to the recent events of a professor from the university where I received my doctorate - The George Washington University. I want to make something clear. I am a Black woman. There is no monolith to Black women. That professor did damage to Black women who actually suffer from racial trauma. I am a Black woman whose Blackness has been questioned more times than I can count. My Blackness is questioned because I went to private schools nearly my entire schooling life, K-12, undergrad, and my doctorate. My neighbor once said to me “you’re whiter than most of my white friends. You’re not like Black people. You own a house. A car. You’re educated.” My Blackness is questioned because my parents are married. I was once asked when I was kid during an interview at this very elite private school in Manhattan “how often I see my father?” My Blackness is questioned because my partner is a white man. An administrator, at that very institution where a white woman was posing as a Black woman based on pejorative, performative and stereotypical associations of what it means to be Black, once said to me, “Oh, you’re Valin?! From what I’ve heard about you I expected someone much taller, bigger and darker than you.” Because what she heard about me was that I was a firecracker, tough and sort of scary to be around. (For the record I am a firecracker! I am a threat! I wish a bitch would...) We have a proximity to whiteness issue. Because in her mind the darker you are, the more threatening. The darker you are the farther you get away from experiencing privilege of light skin. In her mind she could now reassign me to a more agreeable category of Black. The closer you are to seeming white then your Blackness is up for debate amongst everybody. This is how whiteness and white supremacy are operationalized. . . . I think now might be the time to stop questioning Kamala’s Blackness.
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