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Dec 30, 2020

Dust Off the Shackles Of Elitism By All Means But (Hashtag)#BlackExcellence Stays.

White mediocrity has not gotten us anywhere but to ruins, so how then does Black mediocrity sound like a good idea? — The fractured global society in which we live, owes many of its fissures to inadequate, and malicious information processing of biological variation. We know a considerable amount about the ‘melanocyte’ (bearing a typically pretentious multisyllabic scientific name) a cell that produces melanin. …

Equality

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Dust Off the Shackles Of Elitism By All Means But (Hashtag)#BlackExcellence Stays.
Dust Off the Shackles Of Elitism By All Means But (Hashtag)#BlackExcellence Stays.

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·Sep 7, 2020

Blackness Is Not a Monolith, But It Is a Collective Consciousness

I don’t share a history of enslavement with Black Americans — but what we do share transcends oceans and generations — “Story, story, time, time.” The echoes of my childhood reverberate in my mind, reminding me of when I would sit with my African Giant of an aunt as she retold Urhobo folklore to wide-eyed Black children in 1990s Britain. It was different from what we were used to in our…

Black Lives Matter

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Blackness Is Not a Monolith, But It Is a Collective Consciousness
Blackness Is Not a Monolith, But It Is a Collective Consciousness
Cindy-Liz Ikie

Cindy-Liz Ikie

PhD Bioscience Research Scholar and Black Human Rights Activist. CEO of Sensei-M: The Millennials Networking Atlas.

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