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Note from BW of Brazil: The rise in the number of black Brazilian women having access to a college education has also expanded their study […]

Source: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: “Brazil has a race problem, black people don’t have access to positions of power” – Black Women Of Brazil

For generations, successful black business owners faced the threat of lynching. One such example: Memphis’ People’s Grocery in 1892.

Source: How lynching was used by whites to destroy competition from black business owners – Los Angeles Times

As an athlete, if you want to improve something—your 100-meter time, say, or your deadlift PR—you’ve got to apply a challenge, some sort of “stressor,” and then follow it with a period of rest and recovery. Too much stress without enough rest and you get injury, illness, and burnout.

Source: The Equation That Will Make You Better at Everything – Outside – Pocket

But personally, I see nothing fake about this.

Psychiatric drug use is on the rise in the U.S., with one out of every six Americans now taking some type of medication in this category. This

Source: Over a Million Children Under the Age of Six Are Taking Psychiatric Drugs in America

A recent breakthrough in high-intensity focused ultrasound therapy (HIFU) technology has proven its use as an effective cancer treatment.

Source: Scientists have discovered a way to destroy cancer tumors using nothing but sound waves

Indigenous affairs commentators have compared France’s Notre-Dame cathedral fire to the impending demolition of 800-year-old trees.

Source: Demolition of 800-year-old sacred trees compared to Notre-Dame fire | NITV