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Black children and Special Educational Needs

AfricansArise!
December 13
For over 50 years, Black children in the UK have been disproportionately labelled as having special education needs.
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Sickle Cell and Malaria

AfricansArise!
November 26
Sickle Cell Anaemia (SCA) is a disorder caused by a variant of a gene that affects haemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying molecule in red blood cells. If a person inherits one mutated gene, they carry the sickle cell trait but in the vast majority of cases will not develop SCA. But if a person inherits the mutated gene from both parents, then they will develop SCA.
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An introduction to Afropessimism

AfricansArise!
November 01
Black people are positioned outside of humanness because humanness requires a fall guy. This will not change until the World as we know it is destroyed.
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Neuromelanin, Ethnicity and Neurodegeneration

AfricansArise!
October 31
Neuromelanin can guard against neurodegeneration, by binding to toxic elements. But it seems it can also cause neurons to die and release the toxins.