Yemen is facing unimaginable challenges: war, pandemic, floods, just to name a few. These have put the country on the brink of famine. Yemen deserves to launch the greatest relief and aid campaign.

'The deal is done' | Fulton Co. approves agreement to add Morehouse School of Medicine as designated healthcare provider 11alive.com/article/news/l… via 11Alive News

"Hip replacement patients thought their doctor should be paid $14,358 for a total hip replacement and estimated that Medicare was paying out $8,212 for the procedure. The actual amount that Medicare paid out? A paltry $1,375" wapo.st/Kd4Vck?tid=ss_…

On this day in 1985, Philadelphia Police Department dropped a bomb onto a residential home occupied by the MOVE Organization. The Fire Department let the fire burn out of control, destroying 61 homes over two city blocks. 11 people died including 6 children THREAD

I am so disappointed with the customer service at Lowe's. I ordered my dishwasher a month ago and I still don’t have it. My pregnant feet and hands are TIRED.

In 1898, Eliza Grier-an emancipated enslaved woman became the first black woman with a license to practice medicine in Georgia. To afford the cost of medical education at Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, she alternated each year of school with a year of picking cotton.

Calling all General Surgery Residency Programs & PGY3-4 Residents! The Society of Black Academic Surgeons / @Ethicon DSI 2.0 is now recruiting for the Class of 2024!!!! Application cycle opens Thurs, June 15!!!! Apply using the link: members.sbas.net/page/DSI20

“Soooo you mean to tell me that someone down your ancestry line survived being chained to other human bodies for several months in the bottom of a disease-infested ship during the Middle Passage, lost their language, customs and traditions, picked up the English language as best

Patrick Braxton was elected as Mayor in the majority Black town of Newbern, Alabama. But the previous office holder, a white man, and the town’s council, also white, have refused to vacate the office. For years. treadbylee.com/p/he-became-th…

The FDA considers mammograms "the most effective test for detecting breast cancer" and says there is no evidence that thermography can replace mammography. #scicheck factcheck.org/2023/07/sciche…

New JAMA Surgery study analyzes over a million patients who underwent surgery between 2007-2019 & found that those treated by a female surgeon were less likely to die, get readmitted, or suffer a major complication within one year. ow.ly/4cYg50PHSqz

UK nurse Lucy Letby (appropriately) sentenced to life in prison for killing 7 babies in NHS hospital. 105 children in Uganda die under the care of a US missionary without any medical training who settles a lawsuit and then gets her own HBO documentary.

I share with you a letter from the US Secs of Ag and Ed to state governors re underfunding of land grant HBCUs of over $12 billion!Underfunding calculated for TSU is $2.1 BILLION, highest of all HBCUs, and is critically needed for academic programs, housing and enrollment growth.

HBCU’s have provided: 40% of black engineers 50% of black teachers 60% of black doctors 80% of black judges 100% of black Vice Presidents - US Secretary of Education, Miguel Cardona

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For more than a decade, the all-white judges of a Louisiana appellate court ignored thousands of petitions filed by prisoners, most of them Black, who claimed they had been wrongly convicted. Efforts to expose the injustice went unheard. (THREAD) propublica.org/article/louisi…

📺: The 97th Annual @macys Thanksgiving Parade has OFFICIALLY begun and the OLDEST and FIRST #HBCU band in its history to lead the parade - #AAMU’s Marching Maroon and White Band is leading the parade! 🥁 #HBCUMarchingBands #AAMUBand

#MISSING Timya was last seen on December 6, 2023 in #Phoenix, #Arizona. missingkids.org/poster/NCMC/20…