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🚨🧵 Journalist @TorshetaJ kicked off @BWCProject by going home to Noxubee County to dig up why COVID was harder on Black women. 1/
"A Saturday evening summer ride through downtown Shuqualak, this journalist’s hometown, reveals a proverbial ghost town."
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"A Saturday evening summer ride through downtown Shuqualak, this journalist’s hometown, reveals a proverbial ghost town."
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In her crumbling hometown, @TorshetaJ revisited boarded-up schools, employers and businesses, amid poverty: "A concrete slab is all that is left of the Shuqualak Glove Factory, which at one time was one of the town’s most prolific employers." 2/
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.@TorshetaJ's 85% Black hometown no longer has a grocery story; last one is boarded up. The poverty rate was 37.5% as of 2020, and the population has steadily declined with an individual median income of $13,656 in 2019. 3/
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THREAD: Have you heard about the Black Women, Systemic Barriers & COVID-19 Project?
The goal of this @MSFreePress/@JacksonAdvocate collaboration is not just to examine and report on systemic challenges the pandemic magnified, but to report solutions.
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The goal of this @MSFreePress/@JacksonAdvocate collaboration is not just to examine and report on systemic challenges the pandemic magnified, but to report solutions.
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"For too long, Black women have been holding their breath, caught between an upsetting and absurd mashup of 'waiting to exhale' & 'waiting for Godot.' The lines between the two are revealed in Black women’s overwhelming fortitude to 'just get things done.'"mississippifreepress.org/16773/no-more-…
"Black women are the matriarchal figures of their homes, families, communities, churches and work environments. They show up when no one else does, leaving little or no time for themselves to take a break or a breath," writes @JAPublisher.
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