Month: April 2019

• Something to think about…

  Check out @craigspoplife’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/craigspoplife/status/1115464122546708480?s=09 “If you’re a head-of-household and you’re black and you’ve graduated from college, your family’s wealth profile is lower than that of a white family where the head (of household) dropped out of high school.” – @DarrickHamilton https://t.co/kbX3DSaOsX

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  April 10, 2019

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• Article: Dark-skinned black girls don’t get married | Life and style | The Guardian

  I am sharing an article from the Guardian from their “Shades of Black Series”. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/apr/08/dark-skinned-black-girls-dont-get-married Personal commentary: I think it is imperative we talk to young Black girls about racism, colorism and being fetishised. My Dad was the one who explained to me at age 5 that the world would basically “back hand” me because…

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  April 8, 2019

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• April is #Sarcoidosis Awareness Month

  I had a different post prepared today to drum up some excitement about April being Sarcoidosis Awareness month. And then last night I went into a Sarcoidosis flare which carried on into TODAY. So perhaps, it’s not for me to prepare a “feel good” post about Sarcoidosis. Perhaps today, I can tell you what it…

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  April 1, 2019

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  Awareness, Black American, chronic illness, disease research, donate, health care, Inflammation, inflammatory disease, life, pain, Parenting, Rare Disease, Sarcoidosis, sickness, single mom, team kiss