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[Robert Townsend @Robert_Townsend]

Tears… flowing as I write this. Michael was a “Pure Artist”,Susan, Michael’s wife,it’s been a lot on her and the family,so please keep them in your prayers.Thank you to all of the fans showing love to Michael on social media, you are helping to lift his family up and me…..

[Michelle Obama @MichelleObama]

Happy birthday, @BarackObama! 65 never looked better. Every day, you make me a better person, and I’m thankful for all the ways you show up for our family and our country. Love you. ❤️

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

During World War I, thousands of Black Americans answered the call to serve their country, believing that military service would help secure the equality they had long been denied at home. Yet when the war ended, many returned to a nation where segregation, discrimination and racial violence were still part of everyday life. Their courage on the battlefield was undeniable, but the fight for equal treatment continued long after the guns fell silent.

This powerful photograph captures one man standing up for that injustice. His sign reads, “If Negro men can carry guns for Uncle Sam surely they can drive milk wagons for Bowman Dairy.” It was a simple but powerful message. If Black men were trusted to defend the nation in combat, why were they considered unfit for ordinary civilian jobs?

The protest challenged the hypocrisy of employers who accepted the sacrifices of Black soldiers during wartime but refused to hire them afterward. Across the United States, many Black veterans faced barriers to employment despite risking their lives for their country. These demonstrations became part of a broader movement demanding equal opportunity, fair employment and basic human dignity.

The years following World War I saw growing activism from Black communities. Organizations, labor groups and veterans pushed back against discriminatory hiring practices, helping lay the foundation for the civil rights campaigns that would gain momentum in the decades that followed. Their determination reminds us that progress has often come because ordinary people refused to accept injustice as normal.

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[Masu Zafi 🔥🔥 @masuzafi]

Pete Hegseth out here doing Olympic-level gymnastics to bring back Confederate general names on U.S. military bases.
"This is about restoring history and Army morale!"
Hegseth says, while twisting himself into knots to pretend it's not about Robert E. Lee & Co. who literally took up arms against America for slavery.

Pete defending renaming military bases after Confederate traitors: “We’re not erasing history!” Yeah, you’re just doing backflips to rebrand Robert E. Lee as “some other guy with the same name.”
Fort Liberty to Fort Bragg 2.0 :
Now with extra copium for morale.
Treason cosplay in the Pentagon.
Very Embarrassing.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Henrietta Lacks, whose cells were taken without her knowledge in 1951 (HeLa cells) became one of the most important tools in medicine.Her cells became vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, in vitro fertilization and more.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

At the time of the Oregon experiment, using prisoners as research subjects was an accepted practice in US. in this particular study it was interpreted by state officials as permitting an inmate to give his consent to a vasectomy, consenting to becoming an experimental subject

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

The experiment was to test the effects of radiation on the cells of the testes & the doses of radiation that would produce changes or induce damage in the cells, the amount of time it would take for cell production to recover and the effects of radiation on hormone excretion

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Oregon State Penitentiary Experiment. 1963-1971; Black prisoners were injected with radioactive compound called thymidine into their testicles.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Experimentation was not limited to the living. There were "night doctors" who dug up corpses of the enslaved for medical inquiries.experimentation was not limited to the living...

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Dr. Hamilton had a fire pit dug and placed John in the hot pit, covered him with wet blankets, and measured the effects of certain medications on Mr. Brown's body temperature and health.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

In 1800s, slaves were once thrown into burning hot pits by physicians seeking a cure for sunstroke. In 1822, Dr. Hamilton's used a slave named Brown as a subject.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

More than 8000 post black women in Mississippi and S. Carolina were given involuntary hysterectomies (removal of uterus) between 1920s and 80s when they went to see white doctors for other complaints.

These came to be known as 'Mississippi Appendectomies'

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

In exchange for their participation, the men received free medical examinations and burial insurance. They were never treated for the disease.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

J. Marion Sims "the father of modern gynecology" purchased Black women slaves and used them as guinea pigs for his untested surgical experiments. He repeatedly performed genital surgery on Black women WITHOUT ANESTHESIA because according to him, "Black women don't feel pain."

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

The infected men involved in the study were never made aware of their condition upon diagnosis and believed they were being treated for "bad blood".

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

The Tuskegee syphilis Experiment: It began in 1932. In the syphilis study, doctors were trying to find out more about syphilis test subjects (impoverished African American men), and didn't treat them for syphilis even after they knew penicillin could cure the infection.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On this day in 1972, Reporters exposed the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment — a secret study to examine the effects of untreated syphilis in Black men.

American medicine has been built upon the abuse of black people with no oversight.

A THREAD!

[COPPER N AMERICAN INDIAN (AKA) NIIJI🐢 @CopperAmerican]

AMERICAN - THE SOUL PEOPLE - Ruth Brown

[Boochie is the Name @stoppfeenin]

32/35 students failed this professor's midterm using AI because he secretly hid some white font in his text.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A new shot literally regrows knee cartilage.

Researchers at Stanford Medicine have identified a novel strategy to regenerate articular cartilage in knees and potentially prevent or treat osteoarthritis (OA).

The method targets 15-hydroxyprostaglandin dehydrogenase (15-PGDH), an age-related enzyme—or "gerozyme"—that accumulates in aging tissues and drives degeneration.

In aged mice, small-molecule inhibitors of 15-PGDH, delivered systemically or via intra-articular injection, promoted cartilage thickening and regeneration of functional hyaline articular cartilage.

This occurred without recruiting stem or progenitor cells; instead, existing chondrocytes underwent transcriptional reprogramming to a youthful state, with reduced populations of inflammatory and hypertrophic/degradative cells and expanded matrix-producing articular chondrocytes.

The inhibitors also reversed natural age-related cartilage thinning, improved joint function, and—when administered after simulated ACL injuries—strongly mitigated post-traumatic OA progression and associated pain.

Human OA cartilage explants from total knee replacements responded similarly in vitro, showing decreased degradation markers and evidence of new articular cartilage formation.

Given that an oral 15-PGDH inhibitor has already completed Phase 1 safety trials for age-related muscle atrophy, the findings open a path toward disease-modifying, regenerative therapies that could delay or obviate the need for joint replacement surgery.

[Agarwal, P., Su, S., Ancel, S., et al. (2025). Inhibition of 15-hydroxy prostaglandin dehydrogenase promotes cartilage regeneration. Science. DOI: 10.1126/science.adx6649]