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I appreciate that MA DPH offers us quite a bit of covid19 data This helps us review the notion that slower vaccination roll-out may be because..equity(??) Lets look at one
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1/ Must be easier for some folk to make Trump's Latinx support the issue (still only 1/3 nationally) rather than ask why white women supported him even more than in
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1/ I'm so ready to move on from this, but I really felt the need to close out my thoughts on this in a good way. First, I want to
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Black farmers, Black USDA staff, Black civil society, and the Congressional Black Caucus AND farm, rural, and environmental groups have made it clear that Vilsack is the wrong choice for
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It’s interesting to see people get shocked over things pertaining to slavery/the treatment of Black people.. and those things are just the tip of the iceberg. I’m going to write
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The president and Republicans have heavily focused their claims of election fraud on Philadelphia, Detroit and Milwaukee.But those cities did not cost Trump the election. Voters *outside* of them did.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/16/upsho
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Today while driving I decided to listen to whatever the masses are digesting from AM radio. First I heard Rush Limbaugh going on about the indescribable torture we would suffer
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This is for the racists who think there were no black or non white people in Britain before the Windrush! This thread focuses mostly on black british history but also
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As you all know, I write A LOT (for different magazines and media outlets) on everything from economics to STEM to structural racism in those spaces.Inspired by the lovely @taylorcrumpton,
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If the most visible Black people in media can't be trusted to know their own history, how do you think they gained their position to begin with? If representation matters,
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history of braids and it’s cultural significance of certain styles — a thread So before I begin, a lot of the information I’ll provide is stuff I’ve learned and
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Wanna know why this country has such a complex history with weed? Much of it traces back to this guy. Harry J. Anslinger. What a piece of work this guy
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If I had to see this...you do too This is what happens when “we” reduce ourselves to symbols. “Latinos are espicy, passionate, love to dance, loud, ‘tres razas’” just no.Stripping
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I want to comment on something in response to a tweet: white privilege. The author said "we're the worst of humanity."Most white people aren't bad. White people individually aren't necessarily
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THREAD In his comments to the Rabbinical Assembly in 1968, Dr. King addressed the issue of anti-Semitism among the Negro community. His words help clarify where we are today. (pages
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Think about this, give it serious thought. What happens when the most powerful armed force in your city has no functional accountability to you the civilian public it is supposed
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