Blood test for ovarian cancer misses some Black and Native American patients, study finds
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A new study finds that a common blood test for ovarian cancer may miss some Black and Native American patients, delaying their treatment.
#women'shealth #healthscreenings #nativeamericanwomen #blackwomen #women #womensnews #news #healthnews
On this day in 1915, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the "original soul sister" and "Godmother of rock and roll" was born.
"Rock 'n' roll was bred between the church and the nightclubs in the soul of a queer black woman in the 1940s named Sister Rosetta Tharpe."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9a49oFalZE
Breonna Taylor, aged 26, was an African-American medical worker who was [murdered] on March 13, 2020, after [pigs] from Louisville Metro [pigs] Department (LMPD)
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Happy Friday!!
Just updated my Linktree. A new poem added. #poetry #writing #BlackFediverse #disability #Blackwomen @mutualaid
All the ways to be a blessing to me, including pantry staples, and art/writing supplies. Take a look. 
(cash is always good too) All is appreciated.
@brandisjaniese
People say the Meghan Markle show is out of touch or unrelatable. Honey, I want escapism.
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@chrissyhussle
Black people doing the bus stop to "When I'm In Your Arms" by Cleo Sol>>>>
Shoutout to Durand Bernarr as the DJ.
Marian Anderson (February 27, 1897 – April 8, 1993) was an American contralto. She performed a wide range of music,
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#ClassAct #JoyReid is not making her last show – after abruptly being cancelled yesterday – about herself. She is doing what she’s done every weekday at 7PM ET for the last 5 years, delivering the #news on the most important events of our time with a brilliant panel on hand for analysis.
@joyannreid
#msnbc #TheReidOut #BlackWomen #democracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddm6tm4Xx1s
What also irks me is THIS:
When Melissa Harris-Perry was dismissed from MSNBC years ago where was all the vociferous outrage?
People kept watching MSNBC.
When Tamron Hall was lowballed by NBC where was the outrage?
People kept watching.
When Tiffany Cross was ousted by MSNBC?
You get my point
#Jazz #Classical #Music #BlackWomen #CivilRights #WomensRights
I just watched a very interesting bio of #HazelScott on #PBS #AmericanMasters.
Scott was a #Black woman who was a #MusicalProdigy who was enrolled at #Julliard at a very young age, who mastered the classics but who made a living mainly playing jazz & #popular music w/crossovers to classical music.
Hazel was married (for a time) to #AdamClaytonPowell, had the 1st TV show in the 50's staring a #Black performer before #NatKingCole got one, made a few movies on her own terms before being #BlackListed from the #movies & from #TV because she stood up for the herself & the rights of others & who lived for a time in #Paris, like a lot of Black creative people did to escape the discrimination they felt in the #US.
If any of this interests you, I recommend that you watch the episode which you can find in the link below:
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/hazel-scott-documentary/35137/
@fpwellman.bsky.social
As the military under Pete Hegseth rolls back recruiting for [minorities] remember that [Black] women are the only reason the Army met its recruiting goals last year. Not enough white men qualify to even serve no matter volunteer. They'll learn when recruiting collapses
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/01/10/army-sees-sharp-decline-white-recruits.html
Autumn Lockwood becomes first Black female assistant coach to win Super Bowl
#womenshistory #blackhistory #nfl #eagles #dei #football #philly #history #BlackWomen
https://www.phillytrib.com/sports/football/autumn-lockwood-becomes-first-black-female-assistant-coach-to-win-super-bowl/article_14b5451c-5f24-5263-a0e9-171568643db4.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=user-share via @phillytrib
@mspackyetti
“We should not be giving Black people the same vaccine schedule given to whites.” -RFK Jr.
He is LITERALLY calling for eugenics. This is RACIST AND RECKLESS. Thank you for asking the QTNA @alsobrooksformd!!!
Call your senators—they MUST vote NO on his confirmation. (202) 224-3121
#BlockRFKJr #blackwomen #blackamerican #blackpeople #whitemen #whitepeople #rfkjr #blackpoliticians #blackmastodon
Happy New Year! The Collection of photographer Vera Jackson now at the Bradley Center.
#BlackMastodon #BlackHistory #BlackPhotography #blackwomen
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/video/part-of-vera-jacksons-photography-collection-donated-to-cal-state-northridge/
On this day in 1955, the civil rights activist Rosa Parks rejected a bus driver's order to vacate a seat for a white female passenger after the "white" section of the bus was filled.
Parks wasn't the first person who resisted bus segregation, but she helped inspire the black community to boycott the city buses for over a year.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_bus_boycott
Dec 1 1955, 69 years ago:
#RosaParks refused to give up her bus seat and became a #CivilRights icon
#BrowdervGayle ruled public transport #segregation unconstitutional in 1956, but Rosa was not party to it- her case was stuck in #Alabama #courts. #Lawyer #FredGray and #NAACP's #ThurgoodMarshall used earlier cases of #blackwomen refusing to give up their seats for #Federal #Court action:
#ClaudetteColvin and #MaryLouiseSmith
Ancient history?
Fred, Claudette and Mary are all alive today
"Yet when it comes to the political imagination in the US, black women don’t seem to count as the working class. And that says everything, I think, about whose voices matter and whose don’t."
Let's face it: for media and lots of us, some of us count and others don't. Some of us (well-heeled straight white men) can commit crime after crime and go unpunished).
Some of us absolutely do not have that privilege. And many of us do not want this to change.
"And if they aren’t part of the popular revolt against the incumbent government - if they voted overwhelmingly to retain it, believing Trump would be worse - that surely tells us something, right? Because if anyone can be said to be the voice of the popular revolt, then it is a demographic that consistently experiences some of the very worst harm that the US has to offer."
"But the number I keep thinking about is that over ninety percent of black women who voted cast their vote for the Democrats. If any demographic can claim to have been hammered by the cost of living in the USA, then it’s them. They are at the core of the country’s working class and they know how bad the USA can get on every social and political and economic level."
(she/her/they) 
