We are NOT going back, not ever.

#Politics #HarrisWalz2024

#BlackHistory Every day ~Today in Black History
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October 16, 1895 ~ The nation’s leading African American medical group—National Medical Association—is founded in Atlanta, Ga

It was created by twelve black doctors at the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta. Robert F. Boyd was the organization’s first president. The organization’s mission was to combat racism and segregation in the medical field, both for medical professions and their patients.

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‘Looking For Smoke’ by K.A. Cobell

This engrossing thriller explores the missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls crisis through the main character, Loren, whose sister has gone missing. After she invites the new girl in town, Mara, to attend a Blackfeet giveaway ceremony honoring her grandfather, one of her best friends, Samantha White Tail, ends up dead.

#NativeAuthors #IndigenousPeoples

‘Monkey Beach’ by Eden Robinson

Eden Robinson’s Lisamarie is haunted by darkness and followed by ravens as she sets off to search for her missing brother, Jimmy, through the Douglas Channel to Monkey Beach — an area famed for Sasquatch sightings. Robinson’s work of literary fiction blends magical realism with darkness and humor, teen culture, and Haisla lore into a multi-layered story traversing the British Columbia landscape.

#NativeAuthors #IndigenousPeoples

Noopiming: The Cure For White Ladies’ by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Composed of both poetic & narrative fragments in a fierce reclamation of Anishinaabe aesthetics, ths novel is a tool of willful resistance to centuries-old colonial myth-making. Her world features seven main characters who struggle in the urban world and eventually seek nature, only to realize how changed and unnatural it has become. The novel's characters represent different aspects of Mashkawaji, the narrator frozen in ice.

‘The Knowing’ by Tanya Talaga

Since early 1800s, Indigenous families in Canada have been systematically disrupted through residential schools, the Sixties Scoop, Indian hospitals, and asylums. Tanya Talaga strikes readers with personal, yet deeply researched and moving words that explores the dark history of colonialism in Canada. “The Knowing” is a quest of finding out what happened to her great-great-grandmother, and in turn, a quest of understanding the unhealed wounds of Canada.

‘Split Tooth’ by Tanya Tagaq
This unique read defies genres as the author paints a haunting, brooding and tender world filled with love, history, magic, myth and poetry. A seamless blend of memoir and fiction, the story revolves around a girl who grows up in Nunavut, where the land runs through her veins and the tumults of familial love oscillate between alcohol and magic. When the she becomes pregnant, the world grows stranger, and you’ll lose yourself in the plot.

#NativeAuthors #Books

‘Heart Berries’ by Terese Marie Mailhot

Mailhot’s coming-of-age story is one of a woman growing up on the Seabird Island Band in the Pacific Northwest. It was written on the heels of her own trauma, after she was hospitalized for post-traumatic stress disorder and bipolar disorder. “Heart Berries” powerfully acknowledges the dark history of colonization on Indigenous peoples and how that manifests in their mental and physical health.

#NativeAuthors #Books #IndigenousPeoplesDay

‘Bad Cree’ by Jessica Johns
This scintillating debut from Jessica Johns will place you in the dreams of our protagonist, a Cree woman who wakes up with a severed crow’s head in her hands. Mackenzie’s journey brings the reader through this horror, magical realist world where she is forced to confront her sister and kokum’s death, and return to her hometown and the family she has left to uncover what has been haunting her dreams.

NativeAuthors #Books #IndigenousPeoplesDay

Bath & Body Works apologizes for candles that look like a KKK meeting

Retail chain pulls ‘Snowed In’ candle after critics argue it resembles white supremacist group’s hoods and robes.

After an outcry on social media, the company explained that the designers did not intend to mimic the KKK outfit and removed the item from its website and retail stores.

#News #CoSoNews

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/14/bath-body-works-ku-klux-klan-candle

Happy #IndigenousPeoplesDay💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽

President Biden, in 2021, became the first U.S. president to recognize Indigenous Peoples' Day officially. That year, he proclaimed to observe the second Monday in October as a day to honor Native Americans, their “resilience and strength” and determination to preserve “land, language, spirit, knowledge, and tradition," even as they have faced a “centuries-long campaign of violence, displacement, assimilation, and terror,” he said.

#Culture #News #IndigenousPeoplesDay

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/11/1044823626/indigenous-peoples-day-native-americans-columbus

There is a lot going on in this crazy mixed up world 🌍Thought I'd take a minute to check on my friends.

How are YOU doing? Considering it all I'm doing pretty good 🧡🧡🧡

#MentalHealth #MentalHealthCheckIn #MentalHealthCheck

🥰🌄Greetings Beautiful Souls 21 days, 16 hours until our election!!! 🪄🪄Wishing you all a Magic Monday💙🤗

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#Election2024 #HarrisWalz2024

#BlackHistory Every day ~Today in Black History
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October 13, 1914 ~ Garret Morgan, an African-American inventor and community leader, invents and patents the gas mask. He is renowned for a heroic rescue in 1916 in which he and three others used the mask he’d developed to save workers trapped within a water intake tunnel, 50 feet beneath Lake Erie. Morgan also patented the traffic signal.

Calm down Ravens. Let's do this.

#NFL #BaltimoreRavens

It's time. Let's Go

#NFL #Football #BaltimoreRavens

New Orleans Teen Designs Stroke-Detecting Smartwatch: 'Real-Life Solution to a Real-Life Problem'

Naya Ellis, one of PEOPLE's Girls Changing the World in 2024, hopes the WingItt, can be an affordable option for those at risk

#News #NewOrleans #SmartWatch #Stroke #Health #StrokeDetection #HealthyAging

https://people.com/new-orleans-teen-designs-stroke-detecting-smartwatch-real-life-solution-to-a-real-life-problem-exclusive-8727253

Happy Sunday CoSo! Watching Sunday morning football. Ready for the "Battle of the Beltway" this afternoon. I like you Commanders, but not today. Let's go Ravens. Wishing everyone a super day
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Good day CoSo 🤗🥰🤗My #SaturdayVibes

Hope everyone is doing well and that you all have a wonderful day.