Written on the 40th anniversary of Assata Shakur's case that got her sentenced to life in prison, Bim Adewunmi details her life leading up to her radicalization and membership in the Black Liberation Army and her treatment while in prison before her escape.
Very amazing woman, and if you don't know much about her, this article is a good jumping off point! Read her autobiography here.
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from @context.project
In 1963, the KKK planted at least 15 sticks of dynamite under the steps of the 16th Street Baptist Church, a well-known African-American church. The bomb killed 4 young Black girls. And even though the FBI knew the identities of the 4 Klansmen who were behind the attack, no charges were brought against them until 1977, 2001, and 2002. Angela Davis knew some of the girls who died personally.
These acts still affect us today, history always repeats itself, so don't you dare insinuate that racism is gone when this happened in the lifetime of our parents. |
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from @context.project
George Stinney Jr. was the second youngest person to be killed under the death penalty - even though he was given an unfair trial. Click here to read an article by The Washington Post about it
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Read Akilah Beasley's brief discussion of the history of colorism and how it has affected the relationships among Black women in America.
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@cjaourpower @earthjustice @nrdc_org @greenaction_ej sources for this infographic: @unitedchurchofchrist’s study on hazardous waste sites: https://bit.ly/2Y4p0LO @ej4allnow’s analysis of chemical emergency danger zones: https://bit.ly/3fsPM6i @epagov’s study on air pollution disparities: https://bit.ly/30u2Hko @nrdc_org’s study on contaminated drinking water: https://on.nrdc.org/2Y1DED |
He said to the @guardian in 2018, “if we strive to eliminate racism and classism, as well as pollution and environmental degradation, then we are doing what we can to make sure communities are sustainable and livable. it takes a lot of work; it’s not a sprint. but it’s achievable if we view it as important.”
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Images taken from @changingwomxn on Instagram
Changingwomxn created this guide to racism and health in partnership with the “how can you heal if you don’t know who is hurting?” campaign created by a coalition of Yale pre-health students, with post content overview by @marikorooks (with Yale pre-health students) and post design by @lourdesrohann ----
Coalition statement: The recent murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, David McAtee, Sean Reed, and so many others, have illuminated that police brutality, as well as racism at large, is a public health crisis. Additionally, a Snapchat screenshot of a Yale pre-medical student (‘23) using anti-Black slurs & other incidents of hate demonstrate the pervasiveness of racism in this field. As future health professionals/physicians, racism endangers the lives and well-being of Black individuals, and it is vitally important that we address it NOW. |
Images taken from @womenswellnessalliance on Instagram
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"We call on the GMC to pass guidance requiring that course material in all medical schools must include ethnically diverse examples of case presentations - especially in clinically relevant instances where disease presentation differs between white and black and minority ethnic (BAME) patients. Clinical descriptions such as erythematous, pallor and rubor are not typical of all patients and students are often not taught otherwise. This is just one example. Medical teaching should be representative of the society we live in. The duty to deliver the highest quality of care extends to all members of the public and if medical education does not actively prepare students for this, this is inconsistent with such values. It is important that BAME patients are acknowledged consistently throughout teaching and not just in highly specific case studies.
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White normativity in medical teaching means that medical students are often unprepared in recognizing signs of certain diseases in BAME patients that do not present in the same way as white patients and/or are not as clinically obvious. It also means that BAME students do not feel represented and included in their studies. Given that most medical schools only have a small proportion of BAME students (especially black students,) the lack of recognition of BAME patients in medical studies can feel increasingly isolating.
A pertinent example is the rash in children with meningococcemia, which is usually less visible in dark-skinned people. The teaching of the importance of- and often reliance on- this sign as a diagnostic indicator of meningitis can lead to delays in diagnosis in dark-skinned people, with often fatal consequences. There are countless other examples, such as in haematology, cardiology and many other aspects of medical care which all need to see an improvement in representation in teaching. We must be taught presentation and normality in all patients. Representation is important in all fields and it is vital in medicine, so that future doctors can provide the same high level of care to all patients and in doing so, work to bridge racial disparities in the medical field. Representation can quite literally save lives." |
African American women die of pregnancy-related causes at three times the rate for white women, even after accounting for income, education, and access to other resources.
What is it about being born black in America that leads to such outcomes? To answer this question, Shanoor Seervai interviews Kennetha Gaines, clinical nurse manager for UCSF Health in San Francisco, for the latest episode of The Dose podcast. Gaines, a Pozen Commonwealth Fund Fellow in Minority Health Leadership at Yale University, speaks candidly about her personal experiences and her work to transform the way health care providers treat black women. |
In her new book Invisible Visits: Black Middle-Class Women in the American Healthcare System (Oxford University Press, 2019), Sacks, an assistant professor of social welfare at UC Berkeley, tells the often frightening human stories behind the statistics about delayed or denied diagnoses and/or treatment and high mortality rates among African Americans.
Invisible Visits is largely based on in-depth interviews Sacks conducted for her study “Performing Black womanhood: A qualitative study of stereotypes and the healthcare encounter,” which was published in 2017 in the journal Critical Public Health. |