dirrector of cultural affairs, city of charleston, s.c. writer by trade, warrior by necessity. I am not just my ancestors' dream. I am their victory.
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Hi.
I'm Director of Arts and Culture for the City of Detroit. Please ask Edie whether I can buy her painting.
It is BEAUTIFUL! And I want it.
Rr
My 6 year old daughter painted this amazing scene at an after school art club.
Her art teacher told her she had done it wrong?!
You can't do art wrong!
She was so upset as art is her favourite thing to do.
Can you please show Edie some support and like her painting?
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The animal agency where #AmyCooper adopted her dog has acted more quickly than police after her racist rant in Central Park. Henry is safe, but black men aren't until she is arrested. The only way to stop these attacks is to take each one seriously. Her assault was not minor. /1
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DETROIT _ The city is providing COVID-19 testing to any resident w/symptoms - no insurance, income, or access to a car needed. Tests at the Fairgrounds are free. $2 rides are available. Check your site for ALL city resources at detroitmi.gov/ or bit.ly/WeGotYouDetroit
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DETROIT _ Nominations for the 2023 #AcademyAwards will be announced Tuesday, Jan. 24. I hope Academy members are seeing #RRR and recognizing @tarak9999's exceptionalism. I think I'll watch it again!
news18.com/news/movies/rrr-o…
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"The man is a racist, misogynist, homophobe, Xenophobe..." Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, who stood up to #DonaldTrump in a call with governors.
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@Oscars Predictions: Best Actor – Austin Butler’s ‘Elvis’ and Brendan Fraser’s ‘Whale’ Among Transformational Hopefuls. N.T. Rama Rao Jr. @tarak9999 makes the long list: variety.com/feature/2023-osc… via @variety
#RRRMovie #RRRForOscars #YesISaidIt
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Yep, the global takeover is happening. #NTR30 @tarak9999
If you haven't seen #RRRMovie, you will have to catch up.
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Anyone who knows me knows my dog, Desi Arnaz. Yes, he is named for the actor who loved Lucy.
He has been a member of our family for 16 years, my constant companion for 10. Everyone knows him.
He is in the hospital, facing a crisis. I'm asking for prayers for my sweetie.
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This gave me life today. Naysayers don't @ me.
It needs to be said: This interview is how Donald Trump should be interviewed every day. Really interview him or ignore him. The time is almost here when America can say: "You're fired."
Trump: #LyingSince1990 #LyingFor30Years
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This category needs another nominee: @tarak9999
#RRR #RRRMovie #RRRForOscars
#GoldenGlobes #NTRForOscars
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Yaaassssssss!!!!! @tarak9999 in #RRR! Do it! Do it!
Oscar voters have their nomination ballots in hand. But hear us out: We've got some dark horses for their consideration.
Here are 10 performances from deserving folks we hope are remembered in this year's Oscar race. bit.ly/3iT3ozh
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DETROIT _ Had an interesting experience during what I hope will be my last hospital visit for a while. When it was time for me to be discharged, a clerk came in to get payment for the bill and have me sign a form to consent for doctors to treat me.
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Reason No. 734 why I love @NicolleDWallace ....
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DETROIT _ Desi is gone. He passed away quietly yesterday afternoon after 17 years of loyal, loving, funny, exasperating, joyful companionship. My friends, who were his friends, laughed at his genius and his ability to occasionally speak.
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This is the most important thing anyone should consider today.
Scientific & health coverage is being overrun by who knew what when, when we know who knows nothing anytime.
Report on the pandemic. Send your science writers to the White House! Only ask questions of #AnthonyFauci
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Donald Trump risked Secret Service agents’ lives so he could be in a parade. #25thAmendmentNow
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Just finished #Baahubali 1 and 2. I am now officially addicted to Indian film, Telugu cinema and the work of @ssrajamouli! Now I have to figure out how to watch #Eega.
(Tweet corrected)
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DETROIT _ On the eve of Detroit Memorial Day, we make final preparations for the Memorial Drive Around Belle Isle to honor loved ones lost to Covid-19. We have 900 photos, repping 1,500 our city has lost. So proud of the team that made this happen. @CityofDetroit
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MACKINAC ISLAND _ Now listening in the theatre to Secretary of Transportation @PeteButtigieg, whom I met a couple of hours before, telling him I was honored to meet a future US president.
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Stop calling it #criticalracetheory and just analyze and teach the facts of America's founding.
There. Problem solved.
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#RRR is one of the best action films ever! Implausible fights, gorgeous cinematography & dancing? How could I resist. I might've waited had I known it was 3 hours - #InsominiaCandy
How Epic ‘RRR’ Could Nab India's First Oscar Nom in 21 Years variety.com/2022/awards/awar… via @variety
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The dog agency AND her employer worked more quickly than the NYPD to handle #AmyCooper’s assault on an innocent man in Central Park. The arrest should have already happened.
In response to an incident involving an employee on May 25th, Franklin Templeton issued the following statement.
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This.
#IgnoreTrump
PSA: IGNORE TRUMP
Ignore every word @realDonaldTrump says about going back to work.
Trump has no power to send anyone back to work or to reopen any business anywhere.
The governors are in charge now, not Trump.
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OK. I admit it. I like @taylorswift13's music. I've always liked #TaylorSwift's music. And I like this song:
piped.video/watch?v=b1kbLwvq…
I just never made a big deal about it. So here's the morning dance....
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When I look at the latest @IndieWire list, @tarak9999 clearly should be on it.
indiewire.com/feature/2023-o…
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One of the first, small, but important accomplishments #PresidentJoeBiden can do is hang President @barackobams's official portrait alongside the rest of the presidents where it belongs. Trump tried for years to erase the Obama presidency and failed.
businessinsider.com/trump-re…
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#PrinceWilliam has become Charles.
#PrinceHarry has become Diana.
And it's The Crown vs. The People all over again.
#Sigh
cnn.com/2022/01/16/uk/prince…
people.com/royals/prince-har…
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DETROIT _ Have I said today that @RRRMovie is one of the best action films I've ever seen? For the older #Oscars voters who remember #LawrenceOfArabia and the new ones who want different, this is what we'll be talking about on March 12, 2023.
#RRRForOscars
#RRR is one of the best action films ever! Implausible fights, gorgeous cinematography & dancing? How could I resist. I might've waited had I known it was 3 hours - #InsominiaCandy
How Epic ‘RRR’ Could Nab India's First Oscar Nom in 21 Years variety.com/2022/awards/awar… via @variety
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The wife of #DerekChauvin, the former cop who killed #GeorgeFloyd has filed for divorce and asks for peace and safety for herself and her children. Let's give it to her. Sometimes you don't know you're married to a monster until he kills someone in public and appears to enjoy it.
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I love this SO much!!!
We hosted a dog friendly movie screening for @PawsofFuryMovie and IT. WAS. MAGICAL #ad
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After 60 years, NIH credits late Henrietta Lacks. whose cells fueled a billion-$$ industry. nbcnews.to/1sXSQc5,
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This remains one of the greatest moments in world cinema. I want to stand and cheer every time I see it! #NicholasBrothers #StormyWeather
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Happy Birthday, #RobertRedford! Thank you for decades of brilliance - and for @sundancefest, my annual birthday gift to myself. Oh, and thanks for saying this: "Health food may be good for the conscience, but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better."
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DETROIT _ Some of the proudest moments in my life have occurred in a voting booth where I had the power to fight for the way we live. Thrilled to vote for the three women leading Michigan: @GovWhitmer, @JocelynBenson & @dananessel - and to vote yes for women's rights. @MSNBC
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So when someone tells you the lie that Black History is critical race theory and your children will be scarred by it, encourage them to read a book, or watch @Oprah's powerful TV movie about #HenriettaLacks, which like #Roots, made history real. She changed the world. #SayHerName
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Congratulations to a couple whose grace and dignity set the bar high for America!
@BarackObama
@PresidentialLove
Happy 25th anniversary @barackobama. A quarter of a century later, you're still my best friend & the most extraordinary man I know. I 💕 you.
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MSNBC host #rachelmaddow urged television networks tp stop airing #TrumpMisinformation because it will cost lives. She speaks for so many of us who have been asking for the same thing foxnews.com/media/msnbcs-mad…
#ThankYouRachelMaddow
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And so it begins....
Despite an agreement, the magazine ditched the formal portrait agreed upon and presented her like her @nbcsnl persona played by the great Maya Rudolph.
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@KamalaHarris team says it was blindsided by VP-elect’s @voguemagazine cover mystateline.com/news/politic…
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It's coming. @tarak9999's new film is coming!
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I did not sign the form. I brought it home to frame & take with me when I speak to classes as I join others who are fighting to teach Black history, which is just a part of American history that racists do not want you to know. I did not sign it to honor #HenriettaLacks.
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America. We can do this! Nothing will change until MitchMcConnell is no longer in charge of anything outside his house.
Georgia is for all the marbles. We CAN win both seats, and when we do, McConnell’s reign is over.
Your donation will be split between Warnock, Ossoff and Stacey Abrams’ Fair Fight.
GOP Super PACs have already spent millions. Let’s raise $250K today.
secure.actblue.com/donate/cs…
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I have two favorites: One of me at 8 at the piano (which I cannot find) and this one with my first cousin and best friend when we were both 3 years old.
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This is how you use a title.
#MeghanMarkle Cold-Calls Senators to Advocate for Paid Family Leave: 'This is Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex
people.com/royals/meghan-mar…
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PARK CITY, Utah _ I know how James Cameron feels. #RRR makes you get up outta your seat!
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#ChristianCooper was not arguing.
He asked a deranged woman to not come near him.
She should never have approached.
She should not have attempted to get cops to handle an African American man who had done nothing to her.
And #AmyCooper should have had her dog on a leash.
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"These college athletes work their whole lives for this moment & you'd like to see them have a chance to live out their dreams." - Donald Trump's press secretary.
I bet their parents would like to see them live out their lives.
If only DonaldTrump had taken #Covid19 seriously
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If we taught Black history, you'd know why. In 1951, a young mother named #HenriettaLacks visited The Johns Hopkins Hospital complaining of vaginal bleeding. She had a large, malignant tumor on her cervix & Hopkins was one of few hospitals treating poor African-Americans.
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Watching #MeghanAndThePrince navigate their transcontinental journey has been one of the best movies of the past two years. Note the #Twlightish tenor of the @TIME cover. Congrats to their finding freedom and peace.
"In a world where everyone has an opinion about people they don’t know, the duke and duchess have compassion for the people they don’t know. They don’t just opine. They run toward the struggle," writes @chefjoseandres #TIME100 ti.me/3CjUgYF
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#FrederickDouglass' Descendants Deliver His "Fourth Of July" Speech npr.org/2020/07/03/884832594…
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Black Americans are 50 percent more likely than white Americans to have a family member incarcerated.
And nearly 54 percent of incarcerated parents were primary breadwinners for their families.
That explains racism and poverty in a single report.
@TananariveDue
@shaunking
A report found nearly half of U.S. adults have had an immediate family member incarcerated cbsn.ws/2SMmioA
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Imagine the lives that #HenriettaLacks' children & grandchildren & great-grandchildren might have lived had people known of her contribution to medicine. Wow, they might have been treated like Fords or Rockefellers or Breckenridges, thanked for their ancestor saving the world.
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#HenriettaLacks passed away on October 4, 1951. She was 31. Her cells continue to impact the world 70 years later. Yet, her family was never compensated, and what was done still raises questions about patient rights and compensation.
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ICYMI, #RRR Star @tarak9999 to Commence 30th Film in February; 2024 Release Date Set variety.com/2023/film/asia/n… via @variety
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Good for #SelenaGomez, who should have been nominated for an #Emmy. And congrats to #MartinShort, who is always brilliant.
Martin Short and Selena Gomez won Best Actor/Actress in a Streaming Comedy Series at the #HCTVAwards 🎉 We love to see OliMabel thriving 🍾💐 #OMITB
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Thank you @Delta. Makes me want to buy a ticket even though I'm not getting on a plane yet - just to make sure you're there when I am ready. #OnlyFlyDelta
A Delta flight was ready for takeoff but two passengers refused to wear a mask. So they went back to the gate, removed them from the plane, then took off. #YesWeCanAgain
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Anything that you want to do IN THE WORLD, you can do in Detroit. Opportunity lives here.
I also love that we do not care that people who don't know us lie about us. We know who we are.
@CityofDetroit
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Until #PrinceWilliam issues a statement apologizing to his brother and sister-in-law for their treatment by the crown, I'm not listening. He is united for wildlife. They are united for people. And I hope he wasn't the one who wondered what color their baby would be.
NEW: Prince William has released a statement following Moazu Kromah being imprisoned in the USA for the “insidious crime” of conspiring to traffic in millions of dollars in rhinoceros horns and elephant ivory.
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Fox writing about #1619Project creator @nhannahjones being named to @TIME magazine's list of 'most influential people' gave me a little life today. Congratulations, my friend! foxnews.com/politics/1619-pr… #FoxNews
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I gave her my credit card, but refused to sign a machine not attached to a laminated form. Why? This sentence: I authorize the facility to retain and preserve... specimens for research, scientific, teaching purposes as well as other tests not related to my diagnosis.
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Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier
(I'd make him a hash tag, but I don't wanna scare the beJesus out of folks). Oh, what the heck: #SidneyPoitier I missed wishing him a happy birthday Feb. 20, so many happy returns to one of the best! (I wish he were coming to dinner).
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No offense to #TheWeeknd but @CBS could have replayed the #PrinceHalftime, on big screens and my screen, and I would have been elated.
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DETROIT _ Starting the day watching @bts_bighit's new video, #dynamite! I see they discovered #MichaelJackson this summer. Would love to watch them hang out for an afternoon with Tim and Fred Williams @Twinsthenewtren and watch old MJ videos.
piped.video/watch?v=gdZLi9oW…
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In tears listening to @VanJones68 describe the first time he realized (in context) he was black & it mattered. Google the Coke can #CNN
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The other pandemic that must be fought is the killing of black men without cause; a 25-year-old jogger shot in what appears to be a racially motivated, first-degree murder attack.
bit.ly/JusticeForAhmaudArber…
#JusticeForAhmaudArbery
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"We are not moving." @azizansari says on behalf of all minorities on #SNL
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Riley: Eminem, Big Sean join Jemele Hill and me to send 900 kids to "Black Panther" on.freep.com/2HrIYWo via @freep
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"We don't all have to die. They killed my child to shut her up. But guess what? You just magnified her." - Her mom at #HeatherHeyerMemorial
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DETROIT _ I am shaking my head and all the people just discovering that #AuntJemima was based on an actual enslaved woman, the name #LadyAntebellum glorified slavery and the enslaved literally built this country.
Public schools need to teach American history. Quickly.
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It's sounding like a "No. I won't stop taking NRA money."
#CNNTownHall
#NRAMoney
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He escaped enslavement to become social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, statesman, national abolitionist leader-and living proof debunking slaveholders' arguments that the formerly enslaved lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent citizens and leaders
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Oh, and one more thing: On Oct. 4, 2021 the 70th anniversary of her death, #HenriettaLacks' family filed a federal lawsuit against Thermo Fisher Scientific claiming unjust enrichment and nonconsensual use of her cells and tissue samples. abcn.ws/3GNIt6B
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#HenriettaLacks was an African-American woman whose cancer cells are the source of the #HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line, the most important cell line in medical research because It reproduces indefinitely.
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@realdonaldtrump
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...which brings me to last Wednesday at a local, respected hospital where a nurse initially told me it was illegal to not sign the consent form, then said hospital policy required that I sign it, then finally relented and said she knew the #HenriettaLacks case and understood.
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Forgive the language, but needed to say a word from Detroit about how #EnvyIsUgly, and #Eminem needs no defending. His music does it for him in the locker room, living room and Super Bowl. Sigh.
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If the #MuellerReport really exonerate #DonaldTrump, the White House would have released it Sunday before #WilliamBarr had even read it. That there is a fight to release it makes clear that it may not be what people assume. And boy, are assumptions flying! /1
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Even though the origins of #HeLa immortal cell lines were known to researchers, the #HenriettaLacks family was not made aware of the line's existence until 1975, after they were used for commercial purposes, making billions for Big Pharma.
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#LindseyGraham has talked out of both sides of his mouth so many times, he cannot have any teeth left. He was right in 1999 and right in 2015.
America doesn't know who he is now.
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It is so important for every 18-year-old who just graduated high school, every 22-year-old who just graduated college and every doctor and nurse Donald Trump wouldn't supply with PPEs and who are risking their lives to fight a pandemic Trump ignored, to vote, vote, vote!
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This is meant with great respect, but is there anyone else who thinks Michael Steele's comeback, after he stopped leading the RNC, is one of the greatest of all time?
The real Michael Steele stood up.
@CapehartJ @TheSundayShow
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One of the first, small, but important things #PresidentJoeBiden can do is hang President
@BarackObama's official portrait with the rest of the presidents where it belongs. Trump tried for years to erase the Obama presidency & failed.
businessinsider.com/trump-re…
(corrects spelling)
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#HenriettaLacks' #HeLa cells, one of the most important discoveries in the history of medicine, deserve to be included in teaching American history. health.com/mind-body/henriet…
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#HenriettaLacks' #HeLa cells have been used to test the effects of radiation and poisons, to study the human genome, to learn more about how viruses work, and played a crucial role in the development of the polio and COVID-19 vaccines. Yes, the #Covid19 vaccines.
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