My childhood friend died from sickle cell disease. She took her last breath right in front of me when we were only 13 years old. Knowing that a cure is now changing lives fills my heart with joy. May future generations never have to endure what so many families have suffered.
Somebody's grandmother is out here making a pound cake with no recipe written down anywhere, and when she passes, that knowledge is just gone. We treat that like it's normal. It's not. Write it down. Record her. That recipe is an heirloom.
when we say “crime is a social construct”.
what we mean is that you, as an individual, can go to jaił for littering but a corporation can poıson the air, the soil, and the water of an entire town, and no one will go to jaił.
having a black child and loving them gently and kindly is an act of resistance against the rhetoric that teaches that children deserve to be abused and parents must seek power in parenting rather than nourishing trust, autonomy, and respect. i know what im doing is important.
A Black woman named Linda Davis was killed by ICE during a high-speed chase in Georgia.
This is why ICE is a danger! The only answer is to abolish them completely!
She would still be alive today, ICE is the ones who are to be taken as threats to us!
May she Rest In Power! 🕊️💔
It made me emotional when he said “at the beginning I was quiet because I didn’t want to embarrass myself or be a hassle” there so many black kids silencing themselves because they don’t want to be seen as a hassle. fuck that. be a hassle!!! 😤 take up space. love this so much.
Caleb Williams overtime game-winning TD to DJ Moore against the Packers was named the NFL’s Next Gen Stats Moment of the Year.
One of the greatest plays in Bears history.
It is the 100th Anniversary of Black History Month Y’all, so it is in fact Black History Year. Negro History Week turned into a month and here we are 100 years later, still celebrating! Thank you Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson. Use this year to honor your ancestors even more. 🖤