#Tuskegee

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lacadri34

My parents grew up under segregation. As little black kids, they lined up to take the polio vaccine. If anyone had a right to distrust their govt it was little

Dear Pandemic

DearPandemic

Happy New Year to our beloved followers! As @edyong209 recently wrote, "The winter months will still be abysmally dark, but every day promises to bring a little more light.” We'll

Malynda Hale

MalyndaHale

Let me start by saying this: I am 100% pro-vaccine and a fervent believer in God and Science. HOWEVER, if you see specifically any Black people that are skeptical about,

Stephen Bush

stephenkb

This is not true. The vaccine uptake gap in the UK (which holds for *some*, but not all BAME groups) is not about a history of experimentation. Quite the reverse,

Julz🦋

obsidianshakti

Before y’all try to slander the Black community for being hesitant and refusing to trust a “vaccine” that’s put out by the government, we should first unpack the VALID generational

vic ✨

victoriajoelle_

Since vaccines are the topic today, lets talk Tuskegee! Tons of black people today have alot of distrust in clinical trials/new medicines/vaccines due to experiences in history where disadvantaged groups,

Tinu Abayomi-Paul

Tinu

Or a Black person. Because, you know, history. Hernrietta Leakes. Tuskegee. The mutilation of enslaved Black women to create the field of gynecology. Ongoing neglect of us. Textbooks that still

Erik Loomis

ErikLoomis

This Day in Labor History: December 30, 1900. Advisors from Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, the college run by Booker T. Washington, arrived in Togo to help German colonialists institute a

Phyllis Ramage #Girlyswot 🇰🇪 🏳️‍🌈

PhyllisRamage

In my early days as a children's librarian (early 2000s) I saw an increase of children's books written in verse. This one "Carver: A life in poems" by Marilyn Nelson

Justin C. Key

JustinKey_MD

Tuskegee. Marion Sims. Henrietta Lacks.The history of medical experimentation on black and brown communities in this country is not lost on me. In fact, as an American Descendant of Slaves

Unironic AnCap ™️

Unironic_AnCap

I’m starting a new series called “Shit the Government has Done”. Today’s event: Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. Basically, between 1932 and 1972, the United States Public Health Service gave a large

Thicky Watters.

GeeDee215

90s hip-hop legends too so many Ls this yearhttps://twitter.com/PeteRock/status/1337006237678964741 I was listening to the newest @yourewrongabout re: parents being indoctrinated and radicalized by Fox News and the conservative crankosphere

Lachelle Dawn

Lachelle_Dawn

I try to be thoughtful about what I write/say because words matter. I don’t always get it right, but this is a hill I am willing to die on.*clears throat*

BK Titanji #ILookLikeAScientist

Boghuma

So I went down a rabbit hole of human challenge studies through history, there's some Good, some Bad and some Ugly.1/. Smallpox 1796 - English Edward Jenner tested the world’s

Portia McGonagal

PortiaMcGonagal

I saw this tweet and have thoughts. I don't want to drag the person who tweeted it. I understand the point she was making which was valid. However, it was

Kristina Wong 🇺🇸

kristina_wong

.@realDonaldTrump last night: "We are the country of Andrew Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, and Frederick Douglass. We are the land of Wild Bill Hickock and Buffalo Bill Cody. We are

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