Laura M. Quainoo

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CHOSSA: A Meta-Ethnicity Celebrating a Global Black and African Awareness

Black people are not a monolith. How many times have we heard that statement? While it’s true, most often we hear it within the context of noting that we have a variety of different interests, opinions, thoughts and ideas. I’m with all of that and I’m also with emphasizing that…

African Diaspora

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CHOSSA: A Meta-Ethnicity Celebrating a Global Black and African Awareness

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CHOSSA: One Powerful and Beautifully Precise Word Created For Special Black People

You’re going to hear me use the word CHOSSA quite a bit around here. It’s a word I created and one I hope you will proudly use. So, what does it mean? CHOSSA means Children of Stolen & Sold Africans Pronounced “Chose-uh” (and rhymes with Rosa), I created this neologism for the following reasons: To Unite the Diaspora …

Chossa

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Dear America, Black Folk Would Like to Have a Word With You

Dear America, All CHOSSA (Children of Stolen & Sold Africans) born on your soil deserve free and unfettered access to genealogy research. The effort to learn about one’s individual history before and after it was interrupted by chattel slavery should not be further hindered by any costs associated with such…

Chossa

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Dear America, Black Folk Would Like to Have a Word With You

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5 Motivating Reasons Why Black Folk Should Embrace Africa Now and Forever

“Go back to Africa!” Yeah, I know. Those are fighting words and they’ve already triggered a number of automatic replies in your mind. While not quite as inflammatory as the n-word, the little sentence is pretty close and quite likely to get somebody cussed out should it come out of…

Africa

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1 day ago

This blew my mind, but it shouldn’t have done.

Shiny

Thank you for this reply, Shiny.

Thank you for this reply, Shiny. I dare say if anyone has been in a position to encounter more Black Orthos than most, it's you. That you haven't ever tells a story in itself. While I'm glad some in the comments do have Black Orthopedic docs, I wish they were more commonplace than they are. Thanks for chiming in with your real life experience both as a patient and a physician.

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Thanks for chiming in with your real life experience both as a patient and a physician.

3 days ago

Weekly Roundup: Six On a Saturday for June 25, 2022

Supreme Court Drama, Medium Fiction, Mexican Cartels and more… I didn’t publish much this week, but here are a few things that’ve been on my mind that I’d like to share with all of you as we wrap this wild week up. 1. The U.S. Supreme Court is On a Roll Thursday, the Supreme Court struck down a longstanding…

Supreme Court

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Weekly Roundup: Six On a Saturday for June 25, 2022

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…of allies who make all the difference in the world. I'm absolutely not talking about coddling them. I'm talking about viewing them as vulnerable individuals as likely to be damaged by oppression as anyone else. As likely to be harmed by thoughtlessly insensitive rhetoric as anyone else. As needing of support regarding their own issues, which may well be debilitating oppression issues, from those around them, as much as anyone else.

Doesn't work like that.

Linda Keres Carter

Linda, if you feel you can no longer sustain being an ally due to how others speak about White…

Linda, if you feel you can no longer sustain being an ally due to how others speak about White people, then I understand and support you not being one. By all means, take care of yourself and continue leaving Black people behind who you do not believe treat you well…

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Jun 20

Do You Think America Would Ever Try to Enslave Black People… Again?

What might stop such a dark history from repeating in our lifetime? Off the bat, let me just say that I believe it’s possible that America could try to enslave Blacks again. They’ve done it before, so as unlikely as it is that they’d try to do so again and…

Black

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Jun 18

Weekly Roundup: Six On a Saturday For June 18, 2022

Hunting Cracka Down, Neanderthals, Suicide Prevention and more. Happy Father’s Day weekend to all the dads and dads-to-be reading this! I hope your loved ones celebrate you to the max this year and that you truly feel appreciated. To those of you who’ve lost fathers or grandfathers, please spend some…

Recommendations

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Weekly Roundup: Six On a Saturday For June 18, 2022

Jun 17

Here’s Why Scientists Are Right to Want to Rename the Monkeypox Virus

They won’t tell you the whole story, but here it is By now, I’m sure you’ve heard the monkeypox virus is spreading throughout Europe and the United States. With 1,600 reported cases, experts suspect that actual infections are nearly double that number. Though not the only ones to be stricken…

Racism

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Here’s Why Scientists Are Right to Want to Rename the Monkeypox Virus