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rudelyfe:

zionlifts:

A Black woman, Simone Manuel, won a gold medal swimming and representing a country where 70% of Black youth do not know how to swim and Black youth are 3x more likely to drown than white youth. A Black woman won a gold medal representing a country that just decades ago would have closed down an entire pool for public health reasons for a Black body crossing the gate. A country where a hotel manager threw acid into his pool to kill the Black bodies swimming in it. It’s so much bigger than sports fam.

Boom so happy you mentioned the acid part

the-lonely-one96:

almalexias:

Louisiana is experiencing the worst flooding in the history of the state.

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Over 7,000 people have been rescued and over 5,000 people are in shelters unable to return to their homes. In addition, over 1,000 drivers are stranded on Interstate 12 between Baton Rouge and Slidell, who today received supplies flown in via helicopter. AT&T service has been down throughout the Baton Rouge metro area. One of my former professors told me he’s been living in Louisiana for 44 years, and has never witnessed flooding this severe.

In Denham Springs (about 10 miles from Baton Rouge), the Amite river is currently at 46′ and rising. Flood stage for the river starts at 29′. 

This is bad, really bad. Places that only flood once every 500 years are flooding. Unfortunately, these are also places where people don’t have flood insurance because they don’t live in a flood plain.

There was no warning for this, at least with hurricanes we can see them coming and have time to prepare or evacuate.

Please, if you can, donate to the victims through the Red Cross. Or, if you are interested in helping with post-flood disaster assistance, please sign up with Volunteer Louisiana.

If you live in the effected area and are in need of a shelter, This Link has a list of shelters in Ascension, East Baton Rouge, Iberia, Lafayette, Livingston, St. Helena, Tangipahoa, Vermillion, West Feliciana, and Washington Parishes.

If you are in need of rescue please call:

Baker: (225) 778-0300

Baton Rouge: (225) 389-5000

Central: (225) 367-1254

Livingston Parish: (225) 686-3996

St. Helena Parish: 222-4413 - press 0

Patients in need of kidney dialysis: (225) 772-1428

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE BOOST THIS! I AM NOT IN THE FLOODING BUT FAMILY IS VERY VERY CLOSE. SOME ARE STILL WAITING TO BE RESCUED SO PLEASE PLEASE SPREAD THIS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE

micdotcom:

Simone Biles grabbed her third gold medal of the Rio Olympics with an epic vault performance

Physics-defying gymnast Simone Biles won her third gold medal of the Rio Olympics on Sunday, when she crushed her competition on the vault. The event is composed of two parts — Biles scored 15.900 on her first and 16.033 on her second for a combined score of 15.9666, making her the clear winner, despite the odds not being initially in her favor.