Hey everyone! My good friend is up for Supermom of the year! Please read about her and vote! She's been through hell, she really needs this. Please? 💞💞💞🥹🥹🥹 #BlackMastodon
To ask “what was here before whiteness” is to open the more dangerous question: what had to be eliminated, for this way of organizing reality to appear natural.
—Rebecca Hyman
To ask “what was here before whiteness” is to open the more dangerous question: what had to be eliminated, for this way of organizing reality to appear natural.
—Rebecca Hyman
1969
Rev Thomas Kilgore elected Pres of American Baptist Convention
1988
Dr. Patricia Bath received patent(no. 4,744,360), method for removing cataract lenses, 1st African American woman doctor to receive patent for medical invention
Hey pachyderms,
May goal reached! Thank you so much to the people that helped me out! I'm hoping in August I'll be able to go back to donating plasma and be ok going forward!
> On stage and screen, self-referential dramas such as A Strange Loop and American Fiction are on the rise, with playful postmodernism a potent weapon in the fight against inequality
Jenny Erpenbeck opens #Spring 2024 with Sloughing Off One Skin, a haunting #ShortStory that explores truth and identity, translated by Michael Hofmann.
We're on the lookout for perspectives that are currently under-represented on bookshelves in the UK and in the US, and material first written in languages other than English.
Graduating students at VCU were seen walking out during Virginia governor Glenn Youngkinn's address to the class.
The protesting students made comments to the press indicating their strong disagreement with Glenn Youngkinn's goals to limit Black History curriciulium and general anti-Black and anti-Trans policy goals.
what the fuck do we do. theyve destroyed communication in gaza. they keep bombing. we don't even know how bad it is. if it was that bad when the world was watching. Jesus.
This woman's gofundme has been up for OVER A YEAR and is not even halfway to her goal. one of her kids posted on birdsite about how they're terrified that so soon after celebrating her birthday, they may have to plan for her funeral. donate and share.
Originally for this woman's recovery from Long Covid and payment for surgeries needed to help her breathe and move, most of the money is now going towards her daughter who is battling stage two breast cancer (the most aggressive type, which you can see in the updates).
"My specific breast cancer is Invasive Ductal Carcinoma. I’ll need 6months of chemotherapy and subsequently, a mastectomy to remove my left breast. This fund is to support my monthly expenses such as rent, utilities, food and pet expenses while undergoing chemo & I am unable to work. "
"The family is also facing a dire situation as their mother urgently needs medical treatment for severe health issues that she has had for years and are worsened due to the war. With hospitals destroyed and medical supplies scarce, they knew they have to evacuate to a safer place for their mother to receive the care she desperately needs and to have access to the medical care she requires."