Have you ever walked through a historic cemetery? Seen the dozens of crushingly tiny headstones, markers to children taken far too soon by disease and infection?
Do you know why those graves are fewer today?
Vaccines.
Antibiotics.
Laws against asbestos in our flour, sawdust in our bread, chalk and fecal matter in our milk.
RFK wants to go back. Resist.
The Honorable Ketanji Onyinka Brown Jackson adorning cowrie shells.
A word.
Beyond their beautiful arrangement, cowrie shells on the Continent were used as currency—at times preferred more than gold as they were difficult to counterfeit.
Used as symbols of wealth, prosperity and even fertility, various African practices also used them as s…