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Starving children in America is the same as starving children in Gaza. It's a part of the war this administration continues to wage on the American people.
October 28, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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“It is hard for many Black people to see MAGA in the United States as a new phenomenon as the very foundation of this nation was built on an ideology
of racism and imperialism.” — Anita Plummer, associate professor of African Studies at Howard University

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August 31, 2025 at 10:15 PM
“It is hard for many Black people to see MAGA in the United States as a new phenomenon as the very foundation of this nation was built on an ideology of racism and imperialism.” — Anita Plummer, associate professor of African Studies at Howard University

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August 31, 2025 at 4:19 PM
And then prior to that u had people who believed that lynching was just a way to “keep the negro in their place” so there was no and couldn’t be any advancement
March 15, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Cognitive impairment and mental illness are both disabilities and deserving of tenderness, grace, accomodation, and support. So many of our #BHM greats had invisible disabilities.

Below is from "Black Madness :: Mad Blackness" by Prof. Therí Alyce Pickens, PhD

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"I loosely bifurcate madness into two categories, keeping in mind that each carries with it cultural valences of excess: cognitive impairment and mental illness. I split these to attend to the differences in the way madness writ large is treated within Black cultural contexts."
- Therí A. Pickens
February 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
"Black Madness :: Mad Blackness" by Prof. Therí Alyce Pickens, PhD

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Pickens mentions how Black women's suffering remains illegible to a larger public, how disability functions as a social structure that—by virtue of ableist reliance on pity and sympathy— determines who gets to belong to the category disabled and whose experience of illness can be validated..
February 16, 2025 at 1:47 PM
"Which of these two realities made a degrading impression upon the minds of our young generation — a play or a brutal hanging?” -- Susie King Taylor, quoted in "Susie King Taylor: Nurse, Teacher & Freedom Fighter," recommended for ages 10+

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January 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
"I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement."

Angela Davis

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November 17, 2024 at 6:24 PM
Alt for you!
October 21, 2024 at 9:40 PM
August 11, 2024 at 6:44 PM
Prof. Moya Bailey

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August 11, 2024 at 6:44 PM
This nexus is life for many.

Prof. Moya Bailey, PhD. coined the term "misogynoir".

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August 11, 2024 at 6:35 PM
"Black Women’s Historical Wellness: History as a Tool in Culturally Competent Mental Health Services" was written by Dr. Stephanie Y. Evans, author of "Historical Wellness: Mental Health and Healing in Elder Memoirs" and "Black Women's Yoga History".

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Black Women’s Historical Wellness: History as a Tool in Culturally Competent Mental Health Servic...
Revealing the Rosa Parks yoga picture publicly for the first time underscores the ability of Black women’s historians to inform national effort...
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February 4, 2024 at 2:37 PM
"The science is clear: Early adversity dramatically affects health across a lifetime" - @DrBurkeHarris
Immigrant children are experiencing severe toxic stress. The impact of ACES on health and lifespan will be profound for these children. #CloseTheCamps #CiteBlackWomenSunday
November 24, 2024 at 6:45 PM
“If we are serious about eliminating health disparities among Americans, race among Hispanics cannot be ignored.” @CUNYSPH Distinguished Professor Luisa N. Borrell #CiteBlackWomenSunday
November 3, 2024 at 3:04 AM
I'm late to this but I just found the #CiteBlackWomenSunday hashtag and thought I'd share it so that others are aware! Looking forward to having a look through more of these tweets to see which works by black women I've missed.
November 26, 2024 at 6:49 PM