A century ago, Black physicians built hospitals, clinics and medical schools across the South — only to see them dismantled by policy, segregation and an influential report.
Investigative journalist Nicole Carr traced that history through her own family and found the consequences are still being felt today. https://t.co/bkVRU2ZNFo
@CurttiMagurtti This reminds me of Everette Jackson. He drowned in Idaho while visiting his girlfriend and tubing with her family and friends. His family said they thought it was an accident until they went to Idaho. Witnesses all had different stories.
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I haven't forgotten about Everett Jackson.
"We just want the truth. We went out there thinking it was just a water or river accident, but when we got out there, all the different stories and the way we were treated it just didn’t add up.”
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so this 18yo boy went out boating with his “friends” ystday. everyone made it back safely except him.. & y’all know exactly which one it is. yes, the only black boy. ts don’t even add up to me.
When Arthur Ashe, Jackie Robinson, Bill Russell, Johnny Sample and Harry Edwards pull back the curtain on what fans never see unequal contracts, token progress, corporate power, and the pressure placed on Black athletes to stay silent.
📽️ : Black Journal
Former manufacturing engineer here. Every White Mystery batch is basically a one-of-one. It’s just a way to use up the leftovers from different flavor batches before the dye is added.
@boyfailbstrivin@NoahMF This is such an unserious post 😂 You are comparing a man who enslaved over 600 people throughout his lifetime to someone purchasing an item that contains cobalt. Girl, go to hell.
on this day in 1986, janet jackson's 'control' became her first no. 1 album on the billboard 200 🔥
the album included her first no. 1 single on the hot 100 "when i think of you" and made janet the first female artist to score five top 5 billboard hot 100 hits from a single album
PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”