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African American AIDS History Project
@blackaidshist
Chronicling the fight against HIV/AIDS in black communities through oral and digital history. Visit https://t.co/EQhk32rKWa. Curated by @danroyles + @egonzaba
Oct 18, 2019 • 5 tweets • 8 min read
Congratulations to @DazonDiallo of @SisterLoveInc
on being honored by @ATLCouncil and @AndreaBooneNow for her *decades* of work in fighting #HIV/#AIDS among Black women!

ajc.com/news/local/atl… Dazon Dixon Diallo, an African American woman with dreadlocks, wearing a purple and yellow print top with matching hair wrap, purple lipstick, and purple earrings in the shape of the Prince symbol. @DazonDiallo @SisterLoveInc @atlcouncil @AndreaBooneNow .@DazonDiallo in Nothing Without Us (@WomenFightAIDS):

“For everything that the men have done to forge the fight on this epidemic, to open the door, it will be the women who close the door on this epidemic.”

Oct 18, 2019 • 17 tweets • 34 min read
This Sunday is the 33rd annual @AIDSWalkPhilly—here's a #thread about a different kind of #AIDS walk in #Philadelphia—the city's first candlelight AIDS vigil, in 1986.

#twitterstorians #everythinghasahistory

kywnewsradio.radio.com/articles/news/… @AIDSWalkPhilly The first Candlelight Walk for #AIDS in #Philadelphia took place on September 25, 1986. Earlier that month, the Department of Public Health reported 479 cases of AIDS in the Philadelphia area, and 298 had died.

See video of the walk:

Oct 15, 2019 • 10 tweets • 13 min read
Today is National Latinx AIDS Awareness Day; many of the same factors driving #HIV in Black communities are driving it in Latinx communities as well.

“The way to move forward is to really tackle and address the structural issues.” — @latinoactivist

hrc.org/blog/advocates… @latinoactivist The fights against #AIDS in Black and Latino communities have also been historically linked. In #Philadelphia, Programa Esfurezo was modeled on @bebashi, one of the country’s first Black AIDS service orgs.
Oct 14, 2019 • 10 tweets • 15 min read
.@BronxInk highlights how barber shops and churches are part of the fight against #HIV/#AIDS in the Bronx, where HIV mortality rates are highest among the five boroughs and residents are disproportionately Black and Latino.

bronxink.org/2019/10/13/287… @BronxInk Beauty salons and barber shops have been part of the fight against AIDS in Black America since the 1980s. South Carolina salon owner DiAna DiAna began doing AIDS education with her friend @GaddistDr in 1986.

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