The Black Frontline

The Black Frontline is an oral history project framing COVID through stories of 300 Black doctors & nurses in the US, the UK & Ghana by @TheAIEJ & @COVIDBLK

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LAUNCHED & LIVE!
https://t.co/fwHnKqjc6B is NOW OFFICIALLY LIVE!
It’s the largest oral history project of global Black doctors and nurses. You can listen to and engage with the stories, resources and guide right now. #TheBlackFrontlineIsLIVE

[Susan Cole-Haley FRSA @susancolehaley]

#HEALTHandPOWER today at 5.30pm! Thrilled @vanessa_apea and I are joined by incredible guests to discuss health inequities affecting people of colour: @Bex_Mbewe from @ShareEastLondon and @estherarmah from @TheAIEJ. Watch live on @aidsmap socials.

[The Black Frontline @TheBlkFrontline]

TBF Founder @estherarmah will be talking about @TheBlkFrontline on the podcast #HEALTHandPOWER today at 5.30pmGMT. She joins guest @Bex_Mbewe & Hosts
@vanessa_apea @susancolehaley to discuss health inequities affecting people of colour:
Watch live on @aidsmap socials.

[The Black Frontline @TheBlkFrontline]

LISTEN as Black doctors and nurses in the UK share how systemic racism manifests and impacts their work and world, impedes promotion, devastates lives and was excarbetated while working through COVID19. #TheBlackFrontline #EmotionalJustice #BlackHistoryMonth

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Silenced racism in the UK's healthcare leadership devastates & Black nurses on COVID's frontlines feel the toll of that silencing, says Carol Cooper - Head of Equality, Diversity & Human rights during Behind The Mask, The Black Frontline’s exhibit at @theRCN. #BlackHistoryMonth

[The Black Frontline @TheBlkFrontline]

Shaping healthcare’s future means centering Blackness in the path for transformation. The legacy of this untreated trauma requires a national healing within the world of healthcare. This is THE BLACK FRONTLINE. This is Emotional Justice.

[The Black Frontline @TheBlkFrontline]

Healthcare’s frontline is filled with risk, loss, trauma, anger, challenge.
Racism makes it more dangerous. THE BLACK FRONTLINE is a racial healing resource, an Emotional Justice project centering global Black doctors & nurses stories as a strategy for systemic change.

[The Black Frontline @TheBlkFrontline]

Their stories must help shape the future of a humanity centered healthcare, not one that is racialized.
Visit https://t.co/sKw6U4Y43I
#TheBlackFrontline #EmotionalJustice

[The Black Frontline @TheBlkFrontline]

This is THE BLACK FRONTLINE.
It’s an Emotional Justice oral history project of global Black nurses & doctors. Listen to their stories, their voices, their lived experience in the world of healthcare dealing with loss, trauma, racism, pain, community.

[The Black Frontline @TheBlkFrontline]

The leadership culture is worse than 'defensive' it is incompetent, inadequate, & in Letby's case, criminally negligent. It must be subject to the most rigorous of reviews & criminal charges considered. This is a leadership reckoning. #LeadershipLessons
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[The Black Frontline @TheBlkFrontline]

The case of @clearmind67 vs that of convicted killer nurse Lucy Letby. The investigation & review process reveals how ill-equipped senior healthcare leadership are when it comes to reckoning w/ race & how willing they are to abandon evidence & centre whiteness. Deeply disturbing.

[The Black Frontline @TheBlkFrontline]

On Lucy Letby, legacy and leadership.
A convicted killer got away with taking precious lives for so long due to a leadership deficit that dominates the healthcare sector. It is about whiteness & gender, & reveals how race functions within this sector. #LeadershipLessons 🧵1/n

[The Black Frontline @TheBlkFrontline]

It's a stark reminder of healthcare leadership, & how quickly Black nurses are condemned vs how slowly white nurses are penalised. The former action devastates the lives of Black nurses, the latter turned wards into graveyards & professionals into penalised whistleblowers.

[The Black Frontline @TheBlkFrontline]

LISTEN…The key to rooting out discrimination is dismantling systemic harm within the UK healthcare sector sustained by dehumanising inaction, say Black doctors and nurses of The Black Frontline oral history project in the UK. #EmotionalJustice

[The Black Frontline @TheBlkFrontline]

One action The Black Frontline is calling for after our recent UK launch is a national healing in the UK for Black healthcare workers, an investment in institutionalizing their wellness, and resourcing their care by the UK healthcare sector.

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Devastation, loss, fear, feeling like failures and trauma – these are just some of the emotions captured in the stories of UK Black doctors and nurses. This is THE BLACK FRONTLINE, an Emotional Justice project engaging Black digital humanities. #TheBlackFrontline

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Our stories matter. In Emotional Justice, storytelling is our strategy for systemic change.

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It has been powerful to engage with the different UK health organizations – from large organizations to grass-roots activists.
#TheBlackFrontline #TheBlackFrontlineUK #EmotionalJustice

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THE BLACK FRONTLINE UK STORIES
This audio snapshot is from the more than 100 stories from Black doctors and nurses across the UK that you can listen to on 📌https://t.co/sKw6U4Y43I
#TheBlackFrontline #TheBlackFrontlineUK #EmotionalJustice

[The Black Frontline @TheBlkFrontline]

The UK launch of THE BLACK FRONTLINE at @BartsHospital followed by our BEHIND THE MASK event at @theRCN officially puts this oral history project into the millions of hands across the UK, in the worlds of healthcare, public policy, and beyond. #TheBlackFrontline #EmotionalJustice