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Thursday, March 23, 2023
PrEP, the HIV prevention pill, must now be totally free under almost all insurance plans
Truvada, which contains a pair of antiretroviral medications also used to treat HIV, was approved for use as HIV prevention in 2012. Research indicates that when taken daily, the tablet reduces men’s risk of contracting the virus from sex with other men by more than 99 percent. PrEP reduces women’s risk of HIV by at least 90 percent.
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
Robert Johnson, Blues Musician
https://folklife-media.si.edu/docs/festival/program-book-articles/FESTBK1991_06.pdf
https://www.guitarlobby.com/robert-johnson-guitars-and-gear/
According to Awmiller, “At different times he called himself R.L. Spencer as well as many other names.
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
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Thursday, March 9, 2023
North Carolina's largest black slave holder in 1860 was named William Ellison.
William Ellison was a very wealthy black plantation owner and cotton gin manufacturer who lived in South Carolina (not North Carolina). According to the 1860 census (in which his surname was listed as "Ellerson"), he owned 63 black slaves, making him the largest of the 171 black slaveholders in South Carolina
American Indians owned thousands of black slaves
Miles places the number of enslaved people held by Cherokees at around 600 at the start of the 19th century and around 1,500 at the time of westward removal in 1838-9. (Creeks, Choctaws, and Chickasaws, she said, held around 3,500 slaves, across the three nations, as the 19th century began.)
In 1830 there were 3,775 free black people who owned 12,760 black slaves.
the origins of COVID-19
“In September 2019, three things happened in that lab. One is they deleted the sequences. Highly irregular, researchers don’t like to do that. The second thing is they changed the command and control from civilian to military. Highly unusual. The third, which is very telling, is they let a contractor redo the ventilation system in that laboratory. Clearly, there was strong evidence that a significant event happened in that laboratory in September.”
https://twitter.com/simonateba/status/1633515707752226826?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
https://twitter.com/alx/status/1633514516066574344?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
Sarah Rector
Sarah Rector was born to Joseph and Rose Rector #OnThisDay in 1902 near Twine, Oklahoma. Decades earlier, her African American ancestors had been enslaved by members of the Creek Indian Nation. This made them eligible to receive land distributed to individual Indian families as part of the 1887 Dawes Allotment Act. Sarah’s original allotment of 160 acres was only valued at $556.50.
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
Thomas Jefferson: "Mankind Has Not Been Born With Saddles On Their Backs"
The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few, booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately by the grace of God.
Monday, March 6, 2023
Is Bernard of Clairvaux responsible for the feminization of the curch?
“It was one of St. Bernard’s more glittering performances. Armed with the papal letter of authorization and reading where appropriate from Quantum prædecessores nostri, Bernard spoke out on behalf of the Crusade as only he could speak. The response was overwhelming.”
https://thejosias.com/2015/03/17/st-bernard-and-the-theology-of-crusade/
“God is so masculine that we all (male and female) are feminine in relation to Him.”
CS Lewis
Saturday, March 4, 2023
Texas mother charged with capital murder of 3 kids
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/southwest/italy-texas-kids-dead/
"This woman has a twin sister. And guess what? In 2021, her twin sister stabbed HER 7 year old daughter, over 30 times, and a 16 year old family friend, too. The 7 year old died. This is so tragic, I cannot imagine what this family is going through seeing history repeat itself in this way."
Troyshaye Mone Hall
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2021/06/18/woman-accused-of-murdering-daughter-stabbed-the-girl-more-than-30-times-dallas-police-say/
What You Didn’t Know About Loving v. Virginia
But the Lovings’ public persona was more myth than reality. While researching my book That the Blood Stay Pure: African Americans, Native Americans and the Predicament of Race and Identity in Virginia, I spoke to Mildred Loving, who died in 2008. “I am not black,” she told me during a 2004 interview. “I have no black ancestry. I am Indian-Rappahannock. I told the people so when they came to arrest me.”
At approximately 2 a.m. on July 11, 1958, Sheriff R. Garnett Brooks and his deputies barged into the couple’s bedroom. “What are you doing in bed with this woman?” Brooks barked as he shined his flashlight on the startled couple. Mildred responded, “I’m his wife.” She pointed to the framed marriage license displayed on the dresser. The document read: “Richard Perry Loving, white, Mildred Delores Jeter, Indian.”