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BLACK HISTORY AND BLACK GENIUS

Black History Month is an annual observance originating in the United States, where it is also known as African-American History Month. It has received official recognition from governments in the United States and Canada, and more recently has been observed in Ireland, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. It started out as Negro History Week celebrated the second week in February, […]

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THE NEW REPUBLICAN PARTY

The Republican Party, sometimes also referred to as the GOP (“Grand Old Party”), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. Along with its main historic rival, the Democratic Party. The GOP was founded in 1854 by opponents of the Kansas–Nebraska Act. Which allowed for the potential expansion of chattel slavery into the western territories. The party supported classical liberalism, opposed the

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Apparently nothing can separate white evangelicals from their leader

You would think that after an insurrection at the nation’s Capitol, all freedom-loving Americans would unite as one. Instead, there is heightening division and threats of more violence and rage. Six people are dead as a result of the uprising. MAGA thugs, anti-Semites, racists and white nationalists threatened the life of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

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‘Racism in medicine manifests as cumulative deprioritization over many small decisions.’

is how Black people die Are all doctors and registered nurses racist? Not overtly. “But this is one (common) way Black patients receive different care: cumulative deprioritization,” writes Physician Scientist, Tamorah Lewis. Cumulative deprioritization occurs when implicit bias unconsciously affects decisions. It is deadly. Bias can play a role in whose COVID-19 symptoms are taken

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WE WERE GUINEA PIGS FOR THE US: IT ISN’T JUST TUSKEGEE

People who don’t know Black history have probably heard more about the Tuskegee syphilis “experiment” in the last month than they have in their whole lives. The chattering class has used the debacle of allowing hundreds of Black men to live with untreated syphilis to monitor its effects, to explain the resistance that many Black

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This time may be different – eventually; but for now, the nemesis of race remains

I saw more grown men cry in 2020 than all of my previous years combined. Most of these men were center stage via news media – either because of their celebrity, their immediate proximity to cases of injustices or being given a platform upon which to vent chronic frustration; implosions of exhausted spirits. In the

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