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Ethnogerontologist and Womanist Theologian 🩷💚 I'm rooting for everyone who's BLACK ✊🏾❤️ 🖤 💚
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The senior population is booming. Caregiving is struggling to keep up share.google/LUMrqztffkvv...
The senior population is booming. Caregiving is struggling to keep up
The senior population in the U.S. is skyrocketing, but low wages and the difficulty of the caregiver job are fueling a widening shortage in the labor force.
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November 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Quiet revisions to national caregiving plan erase trans people, people of color share.google/JoIZym0jDeyy...
Trans people and people of color have been quietly erased from national caregiving plan
The decision ignores the stark reality that underserved communities experience greater negative impacts from caregiving, from financial hardships to worse health outcomes, advocates say.
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November 21, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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What Do a 103-Year-Old Theologian’s Prayers Sound Like? - Christianity Today share.google/8cMJm5mnbxiw...
What Do a 103-Year-Old Theologian’s Prayers Sound Like? - Christianity Today
Jim Houston’s scholarship centered on communion with God. His life in a Canadian care home continues to reflect this pursuit.
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November 21, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Family caregiving can be a gift, but it takes support : NPR share.google/ij7lBSGo0RRN...
She cares for her aging parents full time. That requires taking care of herself, too
Dawnita Brown left her job to become a caregiver for her parents. Brown says it's a gift to care for her parents, but it can also be difficult. That's why respite is an important part of her life.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Nursing homes singled out in annual Justice report on elder abuse - McKnight's Long-Term Care News share.google/kuzV6X1oe8Eo...
Nursing homes singled out in annual Justice report on elder abuse
The Justice Department’s civil division this week published its annual report to Congress on efforts to combat elder fraud and abuse, highlighting several high-profile nursing home investigations in a...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Legendary Singer Prince Wrote Way More Hits Than You Think — These Artists Owe Him For These Hit Songs (Collider)
Princewas one of the most talented songwriters and performers popular music has ever seen. In fact, it feels like an incredible understatement to label him a...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Black maternal health matters!!!! ✊🏾❤️💚🖤♀️
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Woman In Active Labor Gives Birth On Highway After Hospital Sacked Her, Days After Viral Video Shows Another In Labor Ignored (Shine My Crown)
A Northwest Indiana family is demanding answers and accountability after a pregnant Black woman was allegedly turned away from Franciscan Health Crown Point ...
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November 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Congratulations NPR 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
November 18, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Ageism is terrible and all too common
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‘You lost me as a customer’: Older Florida woman goes to Sephora for store-brand lip liner. Then she calls out the manager (The Mary Sue)
A woman just had a terrible experience at a South Florida Sephora, that left her saying, “you lost me.” In a video with more than 69,000 views, Amy (@theskin...
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November 18, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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A future Vatican document will address questions surrounding the possibility of women serving as deacons in the Catholic Church, according to one of several interim reports released Nov. 17 by the Vatican's synod office.
Vatican study groups cite women's diaconate among priorities in new synod reports
A future Vatican document will address questions surrounding the possibility of women serving as deacons in the Catholic Church, according to one of several interim reports released Nov. 17 by the Vat...
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November 17, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Always protect women ♀️✊🏾
IOC might finally protect women's Olympic categories amid fairness debate | Fox News share.google/pgd2j7fWUDuT...
I’m an Olympic silver medal winner. It’s about time Olympics protected female athletes
Olympic gymnast MyKayla Skinner calls on female athletes to speak up for fairness in women's sports as International Olympic Committee may be moving to protect women's categories.
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November 17, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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A New Orleans man who had his murder conviction tossed wins election as city's chief record keeper (CNN)
A New Orleans man who spent thre...
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November 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Support HBCUS ✊🏾🖤❤️💚
Billionaire MacKenzie Scott makes more historic donations to HBCUs - ABC News share.google/XNFWqNQchQVt...
Billionaire MacKenzie Scott makes more historic donations to HBCUs
Billionaire MacKenzie Scott’s historic philanthropic run has contributed more than $700 million to over a dozen HBCUs this fall.
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November 17, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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No lies told ✊🏾♀️
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Michelle Obama Says Americans Are 'Lying' About Wanting Her to Be President: 'Don't Waste My Time' (People)
"You're not ready for a woman. You are not," said the former first lady, citing the results of the 2024 presidential election
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November 16, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Support HBCUS ✊🏾❤️🖤💚
Black Philanthropists Including Robert F. Smith And Oprah Winfrey Have Played A Part In The More Than $1B Donated To HBCUs - AfroTech share.google/ys9kDEkM5mDq...
Black Philanthropists Including Robert F. Smith And Oprah Winfrey Have Played A Part In The More Than $1B Donated To HBCUs - AfroTech
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November 13, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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'We love our dad, but...' Sandwich generation makes tough choices share.google/IMg3vCpdaT2s...
Older Americans want to age at home. Their kids are suffering to help them.
New data shows 70% of caregivers don't want their aging parents to move in. But the financial tolls of caregiving often lead to just that.
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November 9, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Expert offers tips for families to avoid problems with home health aides share.google/eCM9gl4HquEM...
Expert offers tips for families to avoid problems with home health aides
Troubling case of home health aide who took $1.4 million from Mass. senior
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November 9, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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An Enslaved Man Made Thousands of Ceramic Pots. Now, a Boston Museum Has Returned Two of Them to His Descendants share.google/WYVVcmvPeMaT...
An Enslaved Man Made Thousands of Ceramic Pots. Now, a Boston Museum Has Returned Two of Them to His Descendants
Many of David Drake's large vessels featured his signature and inscriptions, even though he created them during a time when literacy among enslaved laborers was illegal
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November 9, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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Toni🩷💚🩷💚
MacKenzie Scott’s connection to the late famed Nobel Peace Prize-winning author Toni Morrison unearthed - TheGrio share.google/QztxaucNTOBK...
MacKenzie Scott’s connection to the late famed Nobel Peace Prize-winning author Toni Morrison unearthed
Before MacKenzie Scott was a billionaire, she was once Toni Morrison’s creative writing student at Princeton in the early 90s.
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November 8, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Paul Robeson Documentary Coming From Joe Brewster, Michèle Stephenson share.google/kRKJ7NCJC40J...
Emmy Winners Joe Brewster, Michèle Stephenson To Direct Documentary On Paul Robeson, Giant Of 20th Century Arts, Entertainment, Politics
A documentary on actor-singer-activist Paul Robeson is coming from Emmy-winning directors Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson.
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November 8, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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More Americans, especially Black adults, are dying before they can access Medicare benefits, study finds (Medical Xpress)
For 60 years, Medicare has served as a social safety net. Workers pay into the system over their lifetimes with the expectation that they will be...
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November 8, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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These schools should be burned to the ground 🤬🤬🤬
Native American boarding schools in the US, by the numbers - ABC News share.google/Td0ZWA6xVZxG...
Native American boarding schools in the US, by the numbers
For much of the 19th and 20th centuries, the United States government and Christian denominations operated boarding schools where generations of Native American children were isolated from their famil...
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November 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Black Love Wins ✊🏾
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World's 'Oldest Married Couple' Reveal Secret to Their 83-Year Union, and the 1 Drink They Share Every Day (People)
Centenarians Lyle and Eleanor Gittens tied the knot on June 4, 1942NEED TO KNOWLyle Gittens, 108, and his wife Eleanor Gittens, 107, share the secret to thei...
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November 7, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Support HBCUS ✊🏾
8 HBCUs share in $387M donation spree from MacKenzie Scott | Higher Ed Dive share.google/zX7MuB299HVt...
8 HBCUs share in $387M donation spree from MacKenzie Scott
Scott, who said in 2019 she would donate money "until the safe is empty," has made historically Black colleges and universities a tent pole of her philanthropy.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Teyana Taylor, Tracee Ellis Ross and More Honored at Ebony Power 100 share.google/hxLTTgIb9fQG...
Tracee Ellis Ross Honored at Ebony Power 100 Gala as Pathbreaker: “You Do Not Have to Push Out a Baby to Help Push Humanity Forward”
Ross was celebrated alongside Teyana Taylor, Shaquille O'Neal, Iman, Olandria Carthen and Lonnie Bunch III at Ebony magazine's annual gala held in Los Angeles on Nov. 4.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:33 AM