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Nov 21, 2021 • 34 tweets • 22 min read
🚨🧵 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."

mississippifreepress.org/16665/black-no… 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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