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Reparations are owed.
#Sharecropping #JimCrow
Reparations are owed.
#UrbanRenewal #NegroRemoval
Reparations are owed.
#BlackFarmers
Reparations are owed.
#Slavery #Juneteenth

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"white supremacist now have their own theater in which to learn combat—Ukraine" 🇺🇦 Image
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Maria Stewart was a journalist, educator, abolitionist, and after the Civil War became the director of housekeeping services at Freedmen's Hospital

She was the first Black woman to publish political writings and to give public lectures to mixed audiences
#WomensHistoryMonth 🧵
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She was "bound out" as a domestic servant to a family of clergyman until 15

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🇳🇬 John Ogbu and 🇺🇸 Signithia Fordham, both academics and anthropologists, developed the concept that Black Americans don't do well in school because they consider doing well in school as "acting white"
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Here's a quick wiki on their backgrounds

It's no surprise these two would develop this theory
In 1986 they published the 'acting white' paper which says that since BAs are involuntary minorities they have developed an "oppositional collective or social identity" and "[t]hey oppose adopting appropriate academic attitudes and behaviors because they are considered "white"
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Family Income Reduces Risk of Obesity for White but Not Black Children 🧵
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"Childhood obesity is a major consequence of poverty."

"Racial disparity in obesity is one of the main contributors to racial disparities in cardio-metabolic
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I been seeing way too many people in the comments and QTs saying how great the 1940s was because of a picture showing Black Americans looking prosperous

All these photos are also from 1940s America
#BlackHistory
For those who don't know, sharecropping and forced labor was still the norm in the 1940s for many Black Americans; my grandmother included
George Stinney, the youngest person executed in the 20th century at the age of 14 in 1944

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Educational Attainment, Race, and Ethnicity as Predictors for Ideal Cardiovascular Health: From the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 🧵 1/9
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