I am embarrassed and annoyed that I was entirely unaware of the #1619Project documentary on Hulu. But I am glad I found it. The first episode was amazing. Thank you, @nhannahjones, for this gift. Sincerely, a white parent who wants his teenage son to watch this.

how do i celebrate independence day when thomas jefferson was a slaver? ask black folk. they are the ones who know. #4thOfJuly #1619Project

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#ThomTillis (R-NC) hated the #1619Project so much, he introduced a bill to defund #NC schools teaching it.

Infer from that what you will about Mr. Tillis taking time from his busy schedule to introduce a Senate Resolution commending #NCCU's football team—SIX MONTHS after they won the #HCBU Football Championship.

Please, instead of tweeting or tooting about this, watch and see if you agree or disagree with it.

"TOMORROW, in a one-night-only event, ABC will be airing two episodes of #1619Project docuseries. Ep1: Democracy, and Ep2: Justice. First we will show you how Black resistance democratized America, and then we will spend a full hour laying out why reparations are owed. Join us."

https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1663655379270500360?t=BjE7hu_1eQ_7sOO7QTDYMw&s=19

"Arline T. Geronimus, a professor at the University of Michigan School of Public Health..
coined the term “weathering” to explain how high-effort coping in the face of continuous racial insults exacts a physical price on the bodies of Black Americans."

Linda Villarosa, Medicine, in The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (created by Nikole Hannah-Jones)

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"A study of 222 white medical students and residents published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2016 showed that half of the students and residents endorsed at least one false idea about biological differences between Black people and white people, including that Black people’s nerve endings are less sensitive than those of white people."

Linda Villarosa, Medicine, in The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (Nikole Hannah-Jones)

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"African American adults of all ages have elevated rates of conditions such as diabetes and hypertension that among white people are found more commonly at older ages."

Linda Villarosa, Medicine, in The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (created by Nikole Hannah-Jones)

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"...racial health inequality transcends class, and even well-educated Black people with access to healthcare...are more vulnerable to a number of serious diseases."

Linda Villarosa, Medicine, in The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (created by Nikole Hannah-Jones)

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"...at every stage of life Black Americans have poorer health outcomes than white Americans and even, in most cases, than other ethnic groups."

Linda Villarosa, Medicine, in The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (created by Nikole Hannah-Jones)

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #1619Project

August 28, 1955
Two white men kidnap, beat, torture, and murder Emmett Till after the fourteen-year-old interacts with a white woman in a store in Money, Mississippi. The following month, the men, who will later admit to their crime, are acquitted by an all-white jury. Several months after this, Rosa Parks launches the Montgomery bus boycott.

Nikole Hannah-Jones, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

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"Samuel Cartwright, a physician and professor of “diseases ofthe Negro” at the University of Louisiana in New Orleans, now Tulane University...maintained that enslaved people were prone to a “disease of the mind” called drapetomania, which caused them to run away from their enslavers."

Linda Villarosa, Medicine, in The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (created by Nikole Hannah-Jones)

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #1619Project

"From the beginning of his presidency, Johnson insisted that land seized from Confederates must be returned to its former owners, effectively undoing Sherman’s order and returning to former enslavers the land that had been seized from them as punishment for taking up arms against the nation."

Trymaine Lee, Inheritance, in The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (created by Nikole Hannah-Jones)

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"we are at one of those critical moments in American history when we will either double down on romanticizing a false narrative about our violent past or accept that there is something better waiting for us, if we can learn to deal honestly with our history."

Bryan Stevenson, Punishment, in The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (created by Nikole Hannah-Jones)

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"Today, in courtrooms across America, advocates and lawyers representing Black people cannot effectively assist many of their clients without recognizing that, contrary to the legal doctrine, those clients are presumed guilty and burdened by assumptions of criminality that have been shaped over centuries."

Bryan Stevenson, Punishment, in The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (created by Nikole Hannah-Jones)

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #1619Project

"The job of the advocate then becomes convincing the court and the jurors of a client’s innocence, rather than just defending the client against accusations of guilt, an inversion of the presumption of innocence written into American law."

Bryan Stevenson, Punishment, in The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (created by Nikole Hannah-Jones)

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #1619Project

"The United States has the highest rate of incarceration of any nation on earth: this country contains 4 percent of the planet’s population but 20 percent of its prisoners."

Bryan Stevenson, Punishment, in The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (created by Nikole Hannah-Jones)

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"Today, it is Black and other nonwhite people who are disproportionately targeted, stopped, suspected, arrested, incarcerated, and shot by the police or prosecuted in courts."

Bryan Stevenson, Punishment, in The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (created by Nikole Hannah-Jones)

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #1619Project

"researchers have repeatedly established that the race of the victim is the greatest predictor of who gets the death penalty in the United States."

Bryan Stevenson, Punishment, in The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (created by Nikole Hannah-Jones)

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"In 2008, EJI established that all of the thirteen- and fourteen-year-old children in this country sentenced to life in prison without parole for non-homicide offenses were Black, Latino, or Native."

Bryan Stevenson, Punishment, in The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (created by Nikole Hannah-Jones)

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #1619Project

"In schools, Black children are suspended and expelled at rates that vastly exceed the punishment of white children for the same behavior."

Bryan Stevenson, Punishment, in The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (created by Nikole Hannah-Jones)

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