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Tracing Black Family History, via Black Nuns

hurtles or hurdles… a hurdle is a barrier. to hurtle is to rush about or speed through space…

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

This post is even more relevant now, than two years ago:

Tracing one’s family, particularly a family full of mostly Enslaved Persons, and some Free People of Color (free before the Civil War and subject to the Black Codes in most states), means learning the language of genealogy, and then learning your own family language, with names that run in families, especially middle names, and have certain meanings known only to the inner circle at that time. In order to survive, each of those People of Color had to decide and choose which hill they wanted to die upon: the hill of passing for White, in some cases, despite loosing family to do so, the hill of fighting to educate Colored people, despite the many hurtles, as my 2xs great grandfather and his daughter, in her turn, did, or the hill, today, of bearing the torch to help educate…

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Marii Freire Pereira

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” Tudo o que tem que ser seu, chega às suas mãos. Às vezes, nem precisa ” aprisionar ” forçar a barra, reter, oprimir, trapacear ou agir com violência para garantir, celebrar ou penalizar.

O que tem que chegar até você, chega! As coisas que nos pertencem de alguma forma, estas, se fazem presentes em nossas vidas, através de manifestações genuínas.

Marii Freire Pereira

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Imagem & criação: Marii Freire Pereira

Santarém, Pá 17 de fevereiro de 2022

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Vaccination Inequality: Blocking Progress

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A new report fingers BioNTech as driving an initiative to block manufacture of mRNA vaccines in Africa. The purpose of this effort reportedly is to protect vaccine profit margins.

BioNTech has recruited a lobbying agency to try to discredit a technology transfer program of the World Health Organization (WHO). The lobby agency is the kENUP Foundation. The effort is to get the South African government to reverse a decision on the creation of a technology transfer hub, and instead support an alternative solution that experts characterize as “nonsense” — in other words, the alternative could never be implemented, leaving Africa dependent on imports of vaccines from existing manufacturers in Europe and Asia.

BioNTech is a partner with Pfizer in vaccine development. While Moderna is in negotiations with WHO, both BioNTech and Moderna subsequently have announced plans to build manufacturing plants in other countries in Africa.

Scientists argue that lack of…

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When the Death Certificate Omits the True Cause of Death – The New York Times

…More dramatically, Dr. Gill added, “Having accurate death certificates saves lives. It enables us to identify new and trending diseases and take appropriate action.” If someone is living or working in a building with a poorly installed or maintained furnace, for instance, they may be exposed to toxic levels of carbon monoxide that could eventually cause fatal cardiac and respiratory failure. The cause of death might be recorded as cardiac arrest, but in fact was a result of carbon monoxide poisoning, and the presence of the faulty appliance would likely be missed and could result in further casualties. In a research review published in the magazine Today’s Geriatric Medicine, Dr. Emily Carter, a geriatrician affiliated with the Maine Medical Center, and co-authors noted that the data submitted on death certificates can affect families with regard to life insurance, estate settlement, genetic risk factors and finding closure…

N.Y. Attorney General Can Question Trump and 2 Children, Judge Rules – The New York Times

Lawyers for the Trump family had sought to prohibit Ms. James, a Democrat, from interviewing Mr. Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump. They had argued that she was politically biased against Mr. Trump and was inappropriately using her civil inquiry to aid the district attorney’s criminal investigation, which she is also participating in.

But the judge, Arthur F. Engoron, wrote that “this argument completely misses the mark.”

He ruled in favor of Ms. James’s lawyers, who had asked that the former president and the two adult children be interviewed in the next three weeks. The order also requires that the former president provide the attorney general with documents she sought in her subpoena.

“Today, justice prevailed,” Ms. James said in a statement, adding, “No one is above the law.” The Trump Organization did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The ruling does not mean that Ms. James will automatically receive the answers she is seeking. Mr. Trump and his children can invoke their constitutional right to not incriminate themselves, as Mr. Trump’s other adult son, Eric Trump, did when questioned by the attorney general’s office in October 2020. The Trump family can also appeal the decision.