Breast cancer survivor helping others beat the disease

They Were Cleaning Up One Of America's Most Polluted Neighborhoods. Then Came COVID-19.

The exhaust fumes from the highways surrounding her neighborhood have finally let up, and Gordon hears fewer trucks leaving the nearby Port of Oakland each day as the coronavirus pandemic reduces

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Source: HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost-0

Bunting: PNP palace guards caused overblown response to letter

Central Manchester Member of Parliament (MP) Peter Bunting has suggested that individuals inside the People’s National Party (PNP) who consider themselves “palace guards” and not him should be blamed for the latest round of discord to rock the 81-year-old political

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Maine Mesothelioma Victims Center Urges a Navy Veteran with Confirmed Mesothelioma in Maine or their Family to call for Direct Access to Attorney Erik Karst of Karst von Oiste-Get the Best Compensation Results

BANGOR, MAINE, USA, June 29, 2020 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The Maine Mesothelioma Victims Center says, "We are urging a Navy Veteran with recently diagnosed mesothelioma to please call 800-714-0303 for direct access to attorney Erik Karst of the law firm of Karst von

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Source: African Americans News Monitoring Service & Press Release Distribution - EIN News

Kenya: COVID-19 - National Tally Rises to 3,594 After 137 More Test Positive

He said that the number of samples tested so far stands at 115, 336, adding that Nyeri has nine persons infected by the virus including three health workers who contracted the disease from a patient who died after undergoing surgery

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Source: allAfrica.com

Meet The Black Beauty Influencers Picked For The 2020 #SephoraSquad

"I love to inspire the women who follow me by sharing all about skincare, hair, makeup and my love for Christ," she Kendle

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Source: Black Women's Lifestyle Guide, Black Love & Beauty Trends - Essence

(2001) Diahann Carroll, “Keeping Up the Good Fight, Winning the Crusade Against Cancer”

On February 9, 2001, actress and vocalist Diahann Carroll addressed the World Summit Against Cancer meeting in Paris, France. Carroll addressed the audience of scholars and activists as a breast cancer survivor. Her speech appears

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Source: Black Past

Feb

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2001

COMMENTARY: Law And Order And White Supremacy

The rape of my African American great-grandmother by a white man was ignored by law enforcement authorities in the western North Carolina county where the crime was committed because it was not that unusual an

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Source: The Orlando Advocate

Stokes, Carl B. (1927-1996) - Death

Stokes died at the Cleveland Clinic on April 3, 1996 of complications related to his cancer.

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Source: Black Past

Apr

3

1996

Teaching Kids To Hide From Gunfire: Safety Drills At Day Care And At Home

Tess Trice, head of the day care program, carries out monthly drills to train the children to get on the floor when they hear

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Source: Stories About Black History

Why Do More Black Men Die from Prostate Cancer?

It has long been known among medical experts for a while now that Black men are at a considerably higher risk of being falling victim to prostate

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Source: The Florida Star

Providence St. Mel School Continues to "Find a Way or Make One" with 100 Percent of Graduates Accepted to Colleges and Universities.

— Called “The School That Wouldn’t Die” by Reader’s Digest in January 1994, Providence St. Mel School Founder Paul Adams III led a historic national campaign in 1978 to save the historic inner-city

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Source: Chicago Defender

Fellow Black Americans Get your Passport: Florida-Native Ernest White II breaks it Down – Free Press of Jacksonville

No matter how many languages I speak, how many countries I’ve been to, how many degrees I have, how many classes I’ve taught, how many non-black friends I have, I am part of the same pariah class as you, demonized because of my skin color and feared because of my potential – for violence as well as

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Source: Free Press of Jacksonville – Florida’s First Coast Quality Black Weekly

Kenyans Living Beyond Their 60s, Shows Report

Kenyans' life expectancy at birth (or how long, on average, a newborn can expect to live, if current death rates do not change unexpectedly), has increased from 50 years for men and 49 years for women to 64.4 years and 68.9 years

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Source: allAfrica.com

Retired Immaculate Principal Sister Angella Harris dies

She passed away at 11 o’clock yesterday morning after a long fight with

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Kenya: Please Don't Touch Our Cash, Pensioners Say

In a separate memorandum to Parliament, a pensioner's lobby group says the removal of the pension tax exemption for retirees above 65 will make them receive significantly lower

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Source: allAfrica.com

Halle Berry announced as official ambassador for "2016 Key to the Cure" campaign

Saks Fifth Avenue is proud to announce it has again joined forces with Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) and the Entertainment Industry Foundation for the 2016 Key To The Cure campaign. Now in its 18th year, Key To The Cure is Saks Fifth Avenue’s annual fund-raising and charitable initiative to fight

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Source: Savoy Network

Real Table Talk

For the next few minutes, I will give some helpful insight for self-preservation, and some care tips for your family, your neighbors, and your community circles so that we can get through this

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Source: Observer News Group – Group Newspapers of Southern California

Why Do More Black Men Die from Prostate Cancer? | - Where Wellness & Culture Connect

It has long been known among medical experts for a while now that Black men are at a considerably higher risk of being falling victim to prostate

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Source: BlackDoctor | Health News On Fitness, Nutrition & Weight Loss - BlackDoctor

Assembly member Jose Medina Calls for Councilman Chuck Condor’s Resignation

When Riverside City Council member Chuck Condor retweeted a meme showing three Black men–one a police officer, one dressed in a business suit, possibly meant to depict an attorney, and a young Black man, intimating visually the probability he was a criminal—there was little doubt regarding

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Source: Black Voice News | The Voice of the Black Community in California

Angola

U.S. Department of State Background Note

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Source: Fact Monster - Black History

Group Engages Mom-to-Cop Discussions to Fight Police Violence | Afro

MOCHA MOMS, NATION’S OLDEST SUPPORT GROUP FOR MOTHERS OF COLOR, TAKES PRACTICAL STEPS TO END POLICE VIOLENCE

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Zimbabwe: Albinism Community Calls for Government Subsidised Sunscreen Lotions

The Albinism Community in Zimbabwe has urged the government to avail subsidised sunscreen lotions as a means to protect members from possible cancer and related

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Source: allAfrica.com

Minorities wanted for COVID-19 testing

In addition, sterilizing Native American women without their consent, and the infamous Tuskegee syphilis experiment, led to a justifiable fear and luck of trust by people of color regarding clinical trial participation in the

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Source: Houston Defender Network - Houston's Leading Black Community News & Information Source

Winters, Lawrence (1915–1965)

Lawrence Winters was born Lawrence Whisonant on November 12, 1915, in Kings Creek, South Carolina, one of three sons of Eliza Whisonant (née Smith) and Marion Frank Whisonant, a farmer. He took private voice lessons before entering Howard University where he was coached by the distinguished African

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Source: Black Past

Sep

24

1965

Africa: Some Lessons From the History of Epidemics in Africa

The history of endemic diseases, epidemics and pandemics in Africa shows, contrary to a stubborn belief, that the continent has had a long experience of biomedicine - its theory, techniques, and modes of

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Source: allAfrica.com

Donna Summer

Name at birth: LaDonna Adrian Gaines

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Source: Fact Monster - Black History

Jewel Plummer Cobb, cancer research biologist

Jewel Plummer Cobb, cancer research biologist, President of California State University, Fullerton, the first African American to hold such as position in the CSU system, born.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Jan

17

1924

Colorado US Navy Veterans Mesothelioma Advocate Urges a Navy Veteran or Individual with Mesothelioma in Colorado to Focus Compensation-And to Call for Direct Access to Erik Karst of Karst von Oiste-Get Better Results

DENVER, COLORADO , USA, June 3, 2020 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The Colorado US Navy Veterans Mesothelioma Advocate says, "We are urging a Navy Veteran or person with recently diagnosed mesothelioma in Colorado or their family to call us anytime at 800-714-0303 for direct access to attorney Erik Karst

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Source: African Americans News Monitoring Service & Press Release Distribution - EIN News

Now On Netflix: There’s Something in the Water

Local activists of African and Native American descent are holding big businesses and the government accountable for polluting their water and causing an uptick in cancer

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Source: http://www.peacemakeronline.com

A Brief History of Angola

In 1482, when the Portuguese first landed in what is now northern Angola, they encountered the Kingdom of the Kongo, which stretched from modern Gabon in the north to the Kwanza River in the south. Mbanza Kongo, the capital, had a population of 50,000 people. South of this kingdom were various

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Source: ThoughtCo

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