Dr. Jennifer D. Roberts (@activeroberts) 's Twitter Profile
Dr. Jennifer D. Roberts

@activeroberts

Associate Professor, PHOEBE Laboratory Director @UMDPublicHealth • Co-Director @NatureRxUMD • Alum @BrownUniversity, @EmoryRollins, @JohnsHopkinsSPH • 🏃🏾‍♀️

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Yesterday I was incensed (still am), but I try to look to my blessings each morning and I am just so happy that I had the opportunity to spend the past couple of weeks in Kenya. Plus….I get to return in January to teach my ⁦UMD Public Health⁩ course!

Yesterday I was incensed (still am), but I try to look to my blessings each morning and I am just so happy that I had the opportunity to spend the past couple of weeks in Kenya. Plus….I get to return in January to teach my ⁦<a href="/UMDPublicHealth/">UMD Public Health</a>⁩ course!
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- - July 4th: Stars and Scars - - I am the ghost of freedom, a whisper in the wind, a promise in the dark, a birthright thin as skin. What to the great-great grandchildren of the enslaved is this day of fire and flag, this echo of parade? On this day, I hear chains in the

- - July 4th: Stars and Scars - -
I am the ghost of freedom, a whisper in the wind,
a promise in the dark, a birthright thin as skin.
What to the great-great grandchildren of the enslaved
is this day of fire and flag, this echo of parade?

On this day, I hear chains in the
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Racism Kills. This JAMA study in Black women shows an association between racism and connectivity in brain pathways 🧠involved with rumination leading to increased vulnerability in developing stress-related disorders & neurodegenerative diseases. jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

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I just watched, “Tell Them You Love Me”, a deeply disturbing documentary about disability, race, sexuality and abuse of power. theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2…

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Just Published Today! My first public health poem…Sometimes a girl needs to stretch her creative side! Two Biophilic Giants: A Poem at commonhome.georgetown.edu/issues/spring-…

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Yes, “three Black women champions [with non-traditional European athletic physiques] basking in joy & sisterhood was too much”…for them to accept. And then when we declare racism as a catalyst to this medal stripping we are gaslight with “White emotional indignation” & denial.

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“I will say Kamala’s name any way that I want to,”…talk about disrespect wrapped up in a good ol’ fashioned bow of racism and White privilege! thedailybeast.com/nancy-mace-kee…