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[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

"They will pay one of us to kill one of us just to say it was one of us"

—Malcolm X

[Black Media Hub ✊🏿 @BlackMediaHub]

say their names

[Black Media Hub ✊🏿 @BlackMediaHub]

June 5, 1993 — Today would have been Breonna Taylor’s 33rd birthday

[Angel ✧ ✧ ✧ @xelgell]

my heart cannot take how unsafe this world is for Black children

[Rolls Reus @D9N9ABI9]

Imagine being a black athlete dominating such
a predominantly white sport while looking fly and alternative in an era where black athletes were barely even allowed to express themself without being persecuted? Truly revolutionary

[BlackSword @Blacksword011]

Black children deserve to grow old.

[WithoutHistory @WithoutHistory]

RIP

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

My history teacher said this isn’t taught in schools because they aren’t allowed to teach about it

[Afro Calrissian 🇺🇸 @Bagelz888]

I love black people who love black people

[• @yducknow]

When you realize everything is so expensive and still God hasn’t let you you go hungry, homeless or empty

[𝓓𝓾𝓴𝓮 🧃 @fwsodiq]

Shit bout to get disgustingly fly and successful around this mf

[yimika| @yimikaaaa]

Thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu GOD🥹🥹
Thank youuuuuuuuuuuu

[Sheila of the Most High @sheilatebra]

When God says, "Do not lean on your own understanding,He is being soo serious because your understanding can fail you terribly.

[𝐘𝐯𝐞𝐬 @thenayvuiiiton]

i like my man verryyyyyyy dominant, very lover boy, very provider, verryyyyy mine!!

[𝓲𝓬𝓮 @be_like_ice]

Why are White children too young to learn about racism but Black children aren't too young to suffer from it?

[Tim @trouble_man90]

Just 71 years ago, Black people were being murdered for encouraging others to vote.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A 17-year-old in Iowa boiled beets in her chemistry class and turned them into stitches that change color when your wound gets infected. Her name is Dasia Taylor. It started as a science fair project.

She wanted a low-tech version of the "smart stitches" Tufts researchers built in 2016. Those used thread wired up with sensors and a tiny chip that pinged your phone if something went wrong. Cool, but useless without a phone or a hospital that can afford it.

Her version doesn't need any of that. Healthy skin is slightly acidic, like lemon juice but much milder. When bacteria grow in a wound, the chemistry flips and turns more like soap or baking soda.

Beet juice has a quirk. The same red pigment that stains your fingers when you cook it shifts color based on what it touches. Bright red on healthy skin. Dark purple on infected skin. The switch lines up with infection almost exactly.

She tested ten threads before finding a cotton-polyester blend that soaked up the dye and changed color within five minutes. That was the prototype.

Around 1 in 40 American surgeries end in an infection at the cut, costing hospitals more than $3 billion a year. In poorer countries the rate is closer to 1 in 9. In parts of Africa it's 1 in 6. In some Ethiopian hospitals, up to a quarter of surgery patients leave with an infection.

The whole game is catching it early. Spot it in time and antibiotics handle it. Miss the window and the patient is back on the operating table.

Dasia filed a patent in 2021 and started a medical device company called VariegateHealth in 2022. The stitches haven't been tested on real patients yet. New medical device patents can take a decade. She's also looking into a side benefit: the beet pigment kills bugs like E. coli and Klebsiella in lab tests.

Smart stitches need a phone to read them. Hers just need eyes.

[Winter @LeftyWinter]

1958 vs 2026

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

Black history is the key. Read, learn, and educate others.

[Seravelle🌸💫 @Seravelle_]

"Approved"
"Accepted."
"Congratulations."

All in MAY.