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08/06/2025

Soul Train and BET Hip Hop Awards suspended indefinitely

07/24/2025

Rapper GloRilla was arrested in metro Atlanta after drugs were found in her home during a burglary investigation: http://bit.ly/40BsfKC

07/05/2025

Woman uses bug tigger to evict a family faces assault charges

06/27/2025

💰 $66+ million has been allocated by the UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) to explore stratospheric aerosol injection — spraying reflective particles into the upper atmosphere to reduce sunlight.

06/18/2025

Henrietta Lacks – “Mother of Modern Medicine ”

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She never signed a consent form.
She never made a dollar.
But her cells… saved the world.

Her name was Henrietta Lacks — a Black mother of five from Virginia. In 1951, while being treated for cervical cancer at Johns Hopkins, doctors took a sample of her tumor without her knowledge.

They discovered something they had never seen before.

🧬 Her cells didn’t die. They multiplied. Rapidly. Infinitely.
They named them HeLa cells — taken from the first two letters of her name. Without her consent, those cells became the foundation of modern medicine:
Her cells brought us the polio vaccine, in vitro fertilization and gene mapping. They’ve allowed for advances in cancer treatment, AIDS research, cloning, stem-cell studies and so much more. They traveled to the moon to test the effects of zero gravity, and scientists have sold and purchased them by the billions.
But Henrietta never lived to know.
And her family was left in the dark — for decades.

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This isn’t just a story about science.
It’s about the cost of being invisible.
It’s about ethics, exploitation, and the Black body as property.

Henrietta Lacks was not just a medical marvel.
She was a woman. A daughter. A soul.

Let us say her name — not just for what she gave,
but for what she was never given.

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06/17/2025

Just In!

Derek Dixon has filed a $260 million lawsuit against Tyler Perry, alleging sexual harassment, assault, and retaliation.

06/14/2025

Betty Lou Williams was born in Albany, Georgia on January 10, 1932, and became known nationally due to her rare medical condition—she was born with a parasitic twin attached to her body, which resulted in her having four legs and two pelvises. This condition, known as parasitic twinning, occurs when one of a pair of conjoined twins fails to fully develop and becomes dependent on the other.

How She Became Famous:
1. Sideshow Performer:
Betty Lou gained fame during the 1940s and 1950s by appearing in traveling sideshows and carnivals, including the well-known Ripley’s Believe It or Not! and Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. These venues often featured people with unique physical anomalies, known as “human oddities” or “freaks” at the time—a term now seen as offensive and exploitative, though it was the norm during that era.
2. Public Fascination:
She was billed as the “Four-Legged Girl from Georgia” and often marketed under sensational titles like “Double Body—Four Legs,” which you see in the image. Her condition drew significant attention, and she was featured in promotional material, postcards, and sideshow flyers across the country.
3. Dignity and Confidence:
Unlike many in her situation, Betty Lou was often described as confident, graceful, and self-possessed. Reports from the time note that she presented herself with dignity despite the exploitative nature of the industry. Her charisma made her one of the more respected performers in sideshow history.

Later Life:

There is relatively little public documentation about her life after her time in the spotlight, and like many sideshow performers, she eventually disappeared from public view. It’s believed she retired from show business in the 1950s. She passed away in 1955 at the young age of 23, reportedly from pneumonia.

06/07/2025

D@mn this was good!

06/01/2025

The Trump administration’s Department of Transportation (DOT) has agreed to terminate a $37 billion program that takes race and gender into consideration when awarding highway and transit project contracts to minority and women-owned businesses, USA Today reports.

05/31/2025

A truck crash that set 250 million bees free has sparked warnings in the western U.S., with police telling people to to avoid swarms of the stinging insects.

The accident happened in Washington state in the far northwest of the country, when a semi trailer carrying a load of hives overturned.

“250 million bees are now loose,” wrote Whatcom County Sheriff on its social media page.

“AVOID THE AREA due to the potential of bee escaping and swarming.”

05/31/2025

According to A call came in to the Park Police Radio Room about someone finding a body near the top of the mountain.

Bankhead said the body was found by “one of the visitors to the park,” who “discovered it and called 911.”