In the 50s and 60s, the Army sprayed a potential carcinogen into the air of a Black St. Louis housing project. The government contends it was harmless.
A group of residents today are leading the charge seeking compensation and health studies. They say the secretive testing contributed to various illnesses and premature deaths
“We were experimented on. That was a plan. And it wasn’t an accident.”
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"Anyone in power who denies climate change, to me, are the arsonists here," says @KanielaIng of @gnd_network, speaking from Maui where wildfires have scorched much of the Hawaiian island. "We're living the climate emergency."
With the strike EXTREMELY imminent at this point, I thought I’d offer a visual guide to why UPS teamsters are fed up, free of UPS propaganda. This is what it looks like when our preloaders are sorting and loading all the packages for delivery that day. 🧵 1/?
Political and legal experts say what’s happening in Newbern is rare, but the tactics to suppress Black power aren’t, especially across the South.
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For everybody sharing my other post!!!
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Starting at midnight, @sagaftra, WGA East and @WGAWest will be on strike at the same time for the first time in 63 years. We're making history, while fighting for the future.
See you on the picket lines until fair contracts are reached. #WGAstrong#SAGAFTRAstrike#1u
i'm begging all of us to be more curious than critical sometimes. watching decades of organizing and strategy be undermined for likes is really a wild phenomenon, and especially when you have no idea what you're talking about it so dangerous
“…I was perpetually depressed. I had left one unhealthy relationship only to enter immediately into another: with screenwriting.” READ THIS.
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There are POC filmmakers we can actively support instead of making the same nonsensical viral tweets. The same attention you give the only 8 white directors and actors you know, maybe give to them. Joyride is out this weekend. Blackening came out a few weeks ago, on Prime now.
As an actress, I look to intentionally build a body of work that thrives in worlds of activism/advocacy. My overwhelming desire to tell the stories of my ancestors and put a voice behind my silenced sisters takes up more space in my heart than I can sometimes bear.
I'm so glad this is finally happening.
These Black men are lying for views.
I've known that "statistic" was a lie for a long time.
This video breaks it down further.
Please watch it.
You were always enough. You weren’t always in alignment; with your truth; with their energy, or with their perceptions— but you; you were always enough.
Exactly as you are.