Who’s ready for Cancun!? (too soon?)

Seriously though, our fellow Americans are hurting in Texas during these winter storms. Here’s an article that links to multiple ways to help.

I’ve been looking into mutual aid networks recently and if that is your jam, can support some vetted ones in Houston, Austin, or Dallas.

Every Friday, I share other great content (with some added context) to dive into over the weekend.

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Black Doctors Work Overtime to Combat Clubhouse Covid Myths

For the last year, Dr. Daniel Fagbuyi said he has worked 12- to 14-hour shifts as an emergency room physician treating patients who have been struck by Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. Fagbuyi recently picked up a side gig, one that isn’t paying him anything.

“I do my shift, wash my face, change my clothes and then get on the app,” said Fagbuyi, from Washington D.C. That app is Clubhouse, a relatively new, invitation-only social app that hosts interactive audio-only chat rooms. It has exploded in popularity in recent months, the result of people seeking community and conversation amid lockdowns and a publicity push by its main backer, venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

Fagbuyi is just one of dozens of Black doctors and medical professionals who have taken it upon themselves to counter Covid-19 misinformation, which has proliferated on the app alongside the surge in new users. Unlike Facebook, Twitter or Youtube, where the companies have tried to impose rules on objectionable content, Clubhouse leaves the moderation to the app’s users, who control who gets to speak in certain rooms.

The whole article is worth the read.

There are a lot of good people out here working day and night to help get people through this pandemic. I cannot say this enough – we really need to retrain people on how to spot BS in the information age.

The next few years will be an exercise in how to dispel misinformation.

[Source: Bloomberg via Yahoo Finance]

Shirley Chisholm - Unbought and Unbossed

Trailblazer Shirley Chisholm was the first Black woman to be elected to Congress in 1969. She’s most famously known for being the first Black candidate for a major party's nomination for President of the United States.

What she should be remembered for is her amazing quotes. Here are a few of my favorites:

You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas."

If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.

We must reject not only the stereotypes that others have of us but also those that we have of ourselves.

Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.

We Americans have the chance to become someday a nation in which all radical stocks and classes can exist in their own selfhoods, but meet on a basis of respect and equality and live together, socially, economically, and politically. We can become a dynamic equilibrium, a harmony of many different elements, in which the whole will be greater than all its parts and greater than any society the world has seen before. It can still happen.

A Queen.

Earn Your Leisure Podcast Breaks Down Financial Myths, Investment Strategies + More

I’m a big fan of the movement behind Earn Your Leisure.

Some background from Revolt.TV:

Rashad Bilal, a financial advisor and Troy Millings, a former educator, started the Earn Your Leisure podcast a couple of years ago with the goal of spreading financial literacy to underserved communities. Their podcast has since grown to reach millions of people, and they recently signed on to be a part of Charlamagne Tha God’s Black Effect Network on iHeartRadio.

They stopped by The Breakfast Club for a some fun and financial literacy.

[Source: YouTube (51 mins)]

Leave today better than yesterday ✌️. Happy Black History Month!

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