Dr. Tara L. Conley

kent.edu‘Dry Bones’ Documentary Sells Out Cleveland ScreeningTara Conley, Ed.D., assistant professor in the School of Media and Journalism, is being recognized for her documentary “Dry Bones” in coverage from Ideastream and The Chronicle-Telegram after Karamu H...

11 Feb

“The sold-out screening highlights the deep partnerships and industry connections Kent State faculty maintain within the regional media landscape.” www.kent.edu/today/news/d...

Mayor at ASA (American Studies Association) conference today? I’m presenting now 3rd floor 😁

SNL has so much material to work with this week

atlantablackstar.com'I Lost My World': Black Navy Sailor Dies by Suicide After Deployment Keeps Getting Extended, Family Questions What Happened Aboard ShipJaimie Bethea spent 11 months aboard the USS Fort Lauderdale, photographing life at sea, staying in touch with friends and family, and trying to cope with

“Jaimie Bethea spent 11 months aboard the USS Fort Lauderdale, photographing life at sea, staying in touch with friends and family, and trying to cope with the death of her mother.” atlantablackstar.com/2026/09/30/b...

wsj.comExclusive | Trump Rejects Iran Ceasefire, Expects Renewed Bombing After MidtermsThe president is skeptical that Tehran will meet his demands.

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Lauren Ashley Davis@laurenmeidasa.bsky.social

BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨 President Trump has rejected Iran’s proposal for a seven-day ceasefire and has told aides he expects to resume bombing Iran after the November midterms, U.S. officials said. FREE WSJ GIFT ARTICLE 🎁 www.wsj.com/world/middle...

i just have to shout this from the bluesky rooftops to the us-american press on my tv right now shocked that trump banned them from the press pool. WE TOLD YALL THIS WAS GOING TO HAPPEN. STOP PLAYING BOTH SIDES POLICE AND STAY ON THAT MAN’S NECK! THIS IS NOT NORMAL! ok, bye.

not chinese officials showing more concern than us officials about the ban on american journalists. jesus fix it 😩😭

watch.eventive.orgDRY BONES | 15th Annual Greater Cleveland Urban Film FestivalAfter the killing of his brother by a white police officer, former football hero Ike Maxwell struggles with grief, trauma, and years of physical injuries. DRY BONES explores how a Black community in E...

21 Sept

Hey fam! ❤️ 📺 My documentary film Dry Bones debuts online today at 11AM EST. 🎥 You can view the film online THIS WEEK ONLY, presented by the Greater Cleveland Urban Film Festival. Get your tickets here 👉🏽 watch.eventive.org/gcuff15/play...

20 Aug

sheesh.

Black Film Alerts 🎥@blackfilmalerts.bsky.social

Official trailer for Walter Thompson-Hernandez’s ‘If I Go Will They Miss Me’ starring Danielle Brooks, J. Alphonse Nicholson, and Bodhi Dell. A young boy attempts to connect with his father following his incarceration while sensing visions, airplanes, and Greek gods. 🎥: In theaters | Sept. 18th

3 Aug

“I believe that your lived experience can be programmed” - @ann.neno.social in 2012 (!) whew!

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3 Aug

And another one…😁 I’m excited to announce that DRY BONES is an official selection at the Greater Cleveland Urban Film Festival! See you at Atlas Shaker Square on 9/18! ✨ Get tickets here: www.gcuff.org/festivalsche... (scroll down the schedule to find the film, then click order tickets)

8 July

i’m watching idiocracy for the first time. oh my gawd.

5 July

I had the honor and privilege of singing the National Anthem yesterday. I sang for the family of a fallen soldier, for my brother (Air Force), and for my late father (Army)—may he continue to rest easy. Thank you for your service.

a white guy from cleveland is getting married to the most famous white woman in the world today at MSG. that’s wild.

drew carey walked so travis kelce could run ❤️

a white guy from cleveland is getting married to the most famous white woman in the world today at MSG. that’s wild.

let this be a lesson that white guys from cleveland can dream too.

i’ve been asked to sing the national anthem tomorrow, and being that my south node placement is in aquarius, i’m terrified and would rather stay in the house, while my north node, which is in leo is like BITCH, THIS IS OUR MOMENT TO SHINE, YOU BETTER DO IT.

30 June

one thing trump and his events gonna do is violate a music licensing agreement 😭

Cy Klone@sighclone.bsky.social

Someone call ASCAP, BMI, etc. - zero percent chance the organizers are paying the licensing fees to allow any of these bands to cover other people's work.

30 June

this.

Melissa Murray@profmmurray.bsky.social

About Trump v. Barbara: Do not give the Court and the CJ credit for reading and upholding the Constitution. It's a travesty that this is not a unanimous decision... it's also a travesty that the Court let this question percolate for a year, giving credence to a crank theory of citizenship.

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30 June

thomas is such a weirdo 😵‍💫

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social

Final #SCOTUS ruling is birthright citizenship. For a 6-3 majority (Thomas, Alito & Gorsuch, dissenting), Chief Justice Roberts *strikes down* President Trump's executive order purporting to limit which individuals born in the United States would automatically be US citizens; preserves status quo:

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28 June

This was by design of course. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

washingtonpost.comFour Black women. Nine degrees. Not one steady paycheck.The president promised to save “Black jobs,” but his policies have resulted in fresh pain for the Black middle class as the employment gap widens.

26 June

um, so… i’m hate-watching melania and i almost just lost my ability to breathe: Why did i just see the same motion graphic in MY FILM ($30k budget) used in Melanie, which had a $40million budget?!

27 June

pretty sure i just saw an after effects motion graphics template used *repeatedly* in a $40million dollar feature.

i just finished it. that was technically the worst feature documentary i’ve seen in my life. amazon paid $40 million for a canva-made video reel.

cleveland.comWhy Cavs’ 2016 championship will never be topped as Cleveland’s greatest sports moment — Jimmy Watkins The Cavs’ 2016 NBA Finals comeback ended Cleveland’s 52-year title drought and remains the city’s most iconic sports moment.

19 June

this is a correct take.

cleveland.com@cleveland.com

COLUMN: Cleveland sports fans have "already seen the greatest (if also, in many cases, the only) championship of their lifetimes, and they will not witness one weightier," writes Jimmy Watkins.

chroniclet.comIke Maxwell documentary shown in Elyria for the first timeThe documentary film "Dry Bones" about Elyria football legend Ike Maxwell made its debut in the city where it is set on Tuesday, as it was shown at St. Andrew's Church in Elyria.

19 June

happy juneteenth, especially to my folks in Elyria Ohio. more scenes from this week’s community screening if you’re interested in bringing my film DRY BONES to your community, hit me up! drybonesfilm.com/contact

Dr. Tara L. Conley@taralconley.com

“‘This is a homecoming, and it feels wonderful,’” Conley said before the screening of the film. ‘This is why I made this film, so that people in this area can celebrate Ike, but also so that they can use the film as a way to bring us all together as a community.’” chroniclet.com/news/469037/...

19 June

View more photos on our Instagram page www.instagram.com/drybonesfilm...

18 June

shout out to eddie vedder and those beautiful kids singing their original song for the entire country to hear ❤️

n.prDMV artist turns belts into a conversation about disciplineMultidisciplinary artist Lex Marie has gone viral on TikTok and Instagram for her artwork confronting discipline within Black households.

17 June

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16 June

Multidisciplinary artist Lex Marie has gone viral on TikTok and Instagram for her artwork confronting discipline within Black households. n.pr/4os0zCw

tangential: yall should thank your lucky stars black women collectively haven’t said “fuck it all” ….. yet.

i hope michelle cusses out barack at least once a week. or in the very least, has her own secrets and private places to retreat by herself.

npr.org'Is God Is' is a ferocious, timely tale of misogyny — and revengeIn Aleshea Harris' fiery feature debut, men are men, and women pay the consequences.

also, watch is god is. about black women’s rage. www.npr.org/2026/05/15/n...

theguardian.com‘Very Republican, very patriotic’: right-leaning civic centers now offer courses at US public collegesRepublican lawmakers push for conservative professors to counter purported leftwing indoctrination in schools

that 👇🏽 relates to this 👉🏽 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... and it’s happening under our nose at my university and many other schools across the country. so while goofy white men make a mockery of themselves, white supremacy continues to infiltrate US institutions at an exponential pace.

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meanwhile, Kevin David Roberts, the president of the heritage foundation and co-author of project 2025 wrote his dissertation on the transatlantic slave trade repositories.lib.utexas.edu/server/api/c... they spend their lives studying us to destroy us. please wake up America.

13 June

better hide it before they take it (again)

the babahuck@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social

eating in mexico as a european has gotta be like hearing music for the first time

9 June

i have more experience in newsrooms than she has and this heffa is about to run two news organizations. the jig is up, bro. reality isn’t real lmaooo

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9 June

folks been longing for collective third spaces.

🎃 Boo-liet Shen 👻@julietshen.online

this is the way

20 May

me, a cinephile at 10yrs old telling friends and random adults: “until you do right by me, everything you think about gonna fail” 😩😭

19 May

asking black athletes to do the heavy lifting here is a tough ask. i can tell you from experience as a former black athlete at a D1 public university, and as someone who currently teaches black athletes at a D1 public university: they should not have to bear this responsibility. but i get it.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

The NAACP is urging Black athletes and fans to “withhold athletic and financial support” from public universities in states that “have moved to limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation”

5 May

going forward when asked how i’m going to pay for something, i’m simply going to respond: it’s on my website. this is *chef’s kiss* content.

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social

GameStop’s CEO struggles to answer the question of how his company worth $12B can afford to buy eBay for $56B. This is amazing television.

27 Apr

someone said klay thompson looks like the PBS logo and now i can’t unsee it 😑

HELP

wow, was literally just over there. good grief that’s fast.

Chris Chavez@chrischavez.bsky.social

OMG. 🇰🇪 Sabastian Sawe becomes the first man ever to break 2 hours in a marathon (legal conditions) in 1:59:30 at the London Marathon! Yomif Kejelcha 🇪🇹 runs 1:59:41 in his DEBUT. Jacob Kiplimo 🇺🇬 takes third in 2:00:28 All under the previous WR.

23 Apr

pro tip: if a drink is left for at the bar at 2am in london. leave it. there’s more later. moderation is a virtue.

kent.eduFaculty filmmakers win Oscar-qualifying festival for short film featured at Cleveland International Film FestivalA short film co-directed by two Kent State University faculty members is eligible to submit to the Academy after winning Best Live Action Short Film at the Oscar-qualifying St. Louis Film Festival- an...

17 Apr

my cool colleagues. congrats to chris and dana! www.kent.edu/today/news/f...