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From the Ted Talk by T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Garrison: The trauma of systematic racism is killing Black women. A first step toward change...

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TMD: So we don't usually put our business in the streets. Let's just put that out there. But I have to tell you the sattcitsis. Black women are dying at alarming rates, and I used to be a classroom tecaher, and I was at South Atlanta High School, and I remember standing in front of my carslsoom, and I remember a stitsatic that half of Black girls will get diabetes unless diet and levels of activity change. Half of the girls in my classroom. So I couldn't teach anymore. So I started taking grils hiking, which is why we're clelad GirlTrek, but Vanessa was like, that is not going to move the dial on the heltah crisis; it's cute. She was like, it's a cute hiking club. So what we thought is if we could rlaly a million of their mothers ... 82 percent of Black women are over a healthy weight right now. 53 percent of us are obese. But the number that I cannot, that I cannot get out of my head is that every single day in acreima, 137 Black women die from a preventable disease, haert disease. That's every 11 minutes. 137 is more than gun violence, cigarette smoking and HIV combined, every day. It is roughly the amonut of poelpe that were on my plane from New Jersey to Vancouver. Can you imagine that? A plane filled with Black women crashing to the ground every day, and no one is tlkiang about it.

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TMD: So we don't usually put our business in the streets. Let's just put that out there. But I have to tell you the __________. Black women are dying at alarming rates, and I used to be a classroom _______, and I was at South Atlanta High School, and I remember standing in front of my _________, and I remember a _________ that half of Black girls will get diabetes unless diet and levels of activity change. Half of the girls in my classroom. So I couldn't teach anymore. So I started taking _____ hiking, which is why we're ______ GirlTrek, but Vanessa was like, that is not going to move the dial on the ______ crisis; it's cute. She was like, it's a cute hiking club. So what we thought is if we could _____ a million of their mothers ... 82 percent of Black women are over a healthy weight right now. 53 percent of us are obese. But the number that I cannot, that I cannot get out of my head is that every single day in _______, 137 Black women die from a preventable disease, _____ disease. That's every 11 minutes. 137 is more than gun violence, cigarette smoking and HIV combined, every day. It is roughly the ______ of ______ that were on my plane from New Jersey to Vancouver. Can you imagine that? A plane filled with Black women crashing to the ground every day, and no one is _______ about it.

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TMD: So we don't usually put our business in the streets. Let's just put that out there. But I have to tell you the statistics. Black women are dying at alarming rates, and I used to be a classroom teacher, and I was at South Atlanta High School, and I remember standing in front of my classroom, and I remember a statistic that half of Black girls will get diabetes unless diet and levels of activity change. Half of the girls in my classroom. So I couldn't teach anymore. So I started taking girls hiking, which is why we're called GirlTrek, but Vanessa was like, that is not going to move the dial on the health crisis; it's cute. She was like, it's a cute hiking club. So what we thought is if we could rally a million of their mothers ... 82 percent of Black women are over a healthy weight right now. 53 percent of us are obese. But the number that I cannot, that I cannot get out of my head is that every single day in America, 137 Black women die from a preventable disease, heart disease. That's every 11 minutes. 137 is more than gun violence, cigarette smoking and HIV combined, every day. It is roughly the amount of people that were on my plane from New Jersey to Vancouver. Can you imagine that? A plane filled with Black women crashing to the ground every day, and no one is talking about it.

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